Instytut Łączności - Państwowy Instytut Badawczy, Warszawa
Abstract
In this paper, we present main issues of application IP technology directly over optical transport network. The capabilities ofWDM transmission systems and techniques which allow the integration of IP with the physical layer are discussed. A detailed description of most solutions is reported. In particular the MPLS/MPl S techniques are discussed in detail. Also problems for further development are outlined
