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Integrating DWDM with IP routers can provide real cost savings to carriers building out their IP infrastructure. However, operational and other challenges prevent integrated IP over DWDM from being more than a niche solution today.
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Executive summary
In a nutshell
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Key messages
Operations philosophy and corporate politics impede wide-scale deployment
IPoDWDM in theory is great but there are still some technical and business model challenges to be overcome
Drivers for IPoDWDM
IP-based service revenues failing to keep pace with traffic growth
How can IPoDWDM help solve the IP revenue-traffic dilemma?
IPoDWDM implementations are growing but limited
If IPoDWDM is so great, why haven’t we seen more deployments?
Technical and network scale issues
The element management conundrum
Control plane communication issues
The human factor: people and politics
Alternatives to IPoDWDM: CPO and carrier Ethernet
IP and optical: different problems to solve
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