Internet Architecture: Evolution and Convergence

Data, voice, and video services have followed a clear evolutionary path towards an IP-centric solution. To support such a solution, the Internet has been experiencing two evolutionary transformations. First, the underlying transport media of the Internet is converging towards a monolithic solution based on Ethernet Technologies. Second, in addition to the traditional control plane and data plane, a third plane, known as service plane, has emerged to support more sophisticated services over the global Internet. Internet Architecture: Evolution and Convergence will carefully examine the reasoning underlying major changes with Internet Architecture, which lead to a converged IP centric solution. An ATM-based overlay model to an MPLS-based peering model will be covered and more. This book will also assist users with the existing internet technologies and future trends provided by case studies.