A Scalable Approach for Supporting Streaming Media: Design, Implementation and Experiments

Future Internet traffic will be dominated by on-demand streaming media flows, such as IPTV, 3D/HD video, gaming, virtual reality, and many more. Consequently, future network architectures will need to implement scalable IP packet switching capable of offering predictable performances to such applications. Our recent experimental work demonstrated how an IP network can be implemented without "stopping" the serial bit streams. The deployed switch is very simple, scalable to 10-100 terabits per second in a single chassis, and suitable for all optical implementation. The implemented testbed uses only off-the-shelf optical and electronic components and was completed in 9-month.