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Open LightPath Exchanges
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Introduction
Open LightPath Exchanges, sometimes reffered to with the acronym
GOLE's (G for GLIF) play an important
role in the worldwide Lightpath topology. At these exchanges
LightPath carriers from different parties come together. The
exchanges increase dramatically the degrees of freedom for the
topology.
As many may still remember my research group @ UVA did a study on
this topic back in 2004-2005 to understand what the term "open" in
the context of different types of (Inter)net exchanges would mean
and what kind of implications it would have technology and
authorization wise. Even at this moment my group participates in a
study of trust models very relevant also in this context of open
exchanges.
Here are some pointers of the work we (mostly Freek Dijkstra and
Leon Gommans) did.
Links
Related projects
Related publications & talks
- The PhD thesis of Freek deals with this subject in chapter 2:
- Freek Dijkstra, Cees de Laat, "Optical Exchanges", GRIDNETS
conference proceedings, oct 2004, http://www.broadnets.org/2004/workshop-papers/Gridnets/DijkstraF.pdf.
- Freek Dijkstra, Bas van Oudenaarde, Bert Andree, Leon Gommans,
Paola Grosso, Jeroen van der Ham, Karst Koymans and Cees de
Laat, "A Terminology for Control Models at Optical Exchanges",
LCNS, Volume 4543, july 2007, Page 49-60
- Freek Dijkstra, Jeroen J van der Ham, Paola Grosso, Cees de
Laat, "A Path Finding Implementation for Multi-Layer Networks",
Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 25, Issue 2, February
2009, Pages 142-146.
- L. Smarr, T.A. DeFanti, M.D. Brown and C.T.A.M. de Laat,
"iGrid 2005: The Global Lambda Integrated Facility", editorial,
iGrid2005 special issue, Future Generation Computer Systems,
volume 22 issue 8, pp. 849-851 (2006).
- Tom DeFanti, Cees de Laat, Joe Mambretti, Kees Neggers, Bill
St. Arnaud: "TransLight: a global-scale LambdaGrid for
e-science", Communications of the ACM, Volume 46 , Issue
11 (November 2003), Pages: 34 - 41.
- Cees de Laat, Erik Radius, Steven Wallace, "The Rationale of
the Current Optical Networking Initiatives", iGrid2002 special
issue, Future Generation Computer Systems, volume 19 issue 6
(2003).
Related talks
- 13-feb 2005: Internet2 joint techs, Salt Lake City (USA) by C.
de Laat: "What makes an exchange open?".
