[Read] Is IP Going to Take Over the World (of Communications)

Definitely a great paper to read. It makes the person think whether IP is really the best thing to happen to the Internet.

 

Shank

 

 

ABSTRACT

While it is technically pleasing to believe that IP will dominate all forms of communication, our delight in its elegance

is making us overlook its shortcomings. IP is an excellent means to exchange data, which explains its success. It re-

mains ill suited as a means to provide many other types of service; and is too crude to form the transport infrastructure

in its own right. To allow the continued success of IP, we must be open-minded to it living alongside, and co-operating

with other techniques (such as circuit switching) and protocols that are optimized to different needs. In this position

paper, we question some of the folklore surrounding IP and packet switching. We conclude that while packet-switched

IP will continue to dominate best-effort data services at the edge of the network, the core of the network will use optical circuit switching as a platform for multiple services.

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