The Paris architecture for integrated high-speed networks

Abstract

Packet switched networks have changed considerably in recent years. One factor has been the dramatic increase in the capacity of the communication links. The advent of fiber optic media has pushed the transmission speed of communication links to over a Gigabit/sec, representing a significant increase over typical links in today's packet switched networks [1]. A second factor is the altered nature of traffic transmitted through these networks. It is now accepted that packet switched networks [2], [1] (or variants of packet switching like ATM [3]) will form the basis for multimedia high speed networks that will transmit voice, data and video through a common set of backbone nodes and links.