Elastic networks of the future: benefits for the Colombian internal telecommunication network

• Main Authors: Andrés F. Betancur-Pérez, Jhon J. Granada-Torres, Neil Guerrero-González
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano 2015-01-01
• Series: TecnoLógicas
• Subjects: Elastic networks; FI-WI; mesh networks; PON; superchannels; WDM
• Online Access: http://itmojs.itm.edu.co/index.php/tecnologicas/article/view/654/658

The continuous growth in data demand is leading research to bring to light an efficient network using fiber optics and radioelectric spectrum. The next generation of networks will be the result of a convergence between the optical and wireless domain with the purpose to gather all of their virtues in a vast telecommunications network more resilient and more simplified. Colombia will not be marginalized of these advances because actually has deployed optical fiber in most of the country and therefore they must be informed of current progress in terms of new generation of telecommunications networks and guide in a better way the legal guidelines of the Ministry of ICT (Information and Communications Technology) to bring great benefits to the regulation of internal telecommunications network, concerning what was decreed about the immovable of horizontal property. In this paper, research advances are reflected concerning optical fiber transmission, including the new paradigm of hybrid fiber optic networks with wireless networks that will simplify the global telecommunications network. The elastic networks of the future suggest that internal telecommunications networks will be smaller, simple, and versatile, which will facilitate competition between communication service providers, avoiding the monopoly of spaces within horizontal property buildings