This paper outlines trends reshaping the business of International Long Distance (ILD) voice minutes trading. Our analysis is centered on Arbinet’s business model: an electro...
By providing the best-effort service, the Internet Protocol (IP) does not maintain the same order of packets sent out by a host. Therefore, due to the route change, parallelism in...
All the new emerging QoS service architectures are motivated by the desire to improve the overall performance of IP networks. Integrated Services (Intserv), Differentiated Service...
Datagram services provide a simple,
exible, robust, and communication abstraction; their usefulness has been well demonstrated by the success of IP, UDP, and RPC. Yet, the overwh...
We describe a WDM-based optical access network architecture for providing broadband Internet services. The architecture uses a passive collection and distribution network and a co...