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Third, by putting functionality like QoS in a backbone router, flexibility and scalability are sacrificed in applying QoS policies, meaning a less adaptable solution to address the diversity and growth happening at the edge of the network. Network management: Don't let unruly Internet apps bring ...
7. The features of the backbone network with policy driven routing techniques described herein are platform-independent, meaning that the techniques can be implemented on a variety of commercial computing platforms having a variety of processors. Although the subject matter has been described in ...
as well as the links to the access networks, will be electronic for the foreseeable future, meaning that the optical layer will terminate in the access network (Figure 1). The data remains in the photonic format until its conversion to electronic format at the access-network node closest to ...