Evolutionary approach towards ultra-high capacity and QoS aware transport networks

One of the main concerns in the industry of the telecommunications is the development of a new network architecture to be deployed in the next years since current architectures would need high investments to scale in order to be able to support the Internet traffic growth. This paper describes the FP7 STRONGEST architectural vision for future metro and core networks as well as the migration steps and technical challenges towards the STRONGEST's final architecture.