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The following
insert from the AlS
Whitepaper should be enough to answer the question:
What
is Application Lambda Switching?
Application
Lambda Switching is the next generation of optical communications technology. It
is an infrastructure for transport of any type of information, analog or
digital, regardless of origination source. This technology has many benefits:
- Unlimited bandwidth per connection:
Network
infrastructure no longer dictates the connection speed of access devices.
- Total elimination of traffic congestion:
Network
traffic is completely isolated to its associated connection, with no effect on
other connections whatsoever. Quality of Service (QoS) is no longer an issue.
- Elimination of network
overhead:
No
need for transport protocols such as ATM, IP, SONET, etc.
- Information neutral:
Can
optically transport analog or digital information in any form, from any
source.
- 100% secure, and dedicated connections:
This
technology inherently provides security and privacy without additional costly
infrastructure.
- Future backwards compatibility for all AlS
access devices:
It
is unlikely that AlS
access devices will require upgrades to remain useable as the rest of the
network infrastructure technically progresses over time.
- 100% backwards compatible with all current and past optical transport
technologies:
The
benefits of this technology do not restrict its use with existing optical
technologies such as ATM, SONET, WDM, etc.
- Intelligent Addressing:
The
AlS
infrastructure employs the ‘Colon Quinoctogesimal 1924 Intelligent
Addressing’ system (patented).
- Intelligent device addressing:
Network
can locate any device regardless of its connectivity.
- Simplified access devices:
Access
devices do not have to be as complex as they are today to perform the same
functions. Simplifies design lowers the cost of access devices.
- Intelligent connectivity:
Network
infrastructure can track, map, and diagnose connectivity to any device in
real-time without additional software, protocols, or infrastructure.
- Intelligent built-in network management:
Network
infrastructure itself can create, or re-create its entire infrastructure
mapping starting from a single known device address without additional
software, protocols, or infrastructure.
- Unlimited connectivity:
Any
AlS
access device can maintain multiple connections to multiple devices while
maintaining a single MAC address.
A
complete copy of the
Whitepaper
(PDF) is available here.
The AlS Presentation can be
downloaded from
here.
(Adobe Acrobat Reader
7.0 or later required. www.adobe.com)
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