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Date of Conference: 1-5 July 2007 Conference Name: 9th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2007 This paper comparatively studies single-layer and multi-layer traffic engineering strategies on an IP/MPLS/WDM network. These strategies are evaluated and compared in two different scenarios. In the first scenario, the strategies make use of statistical information on the traffic patterns. In the second scenario, the traffic engineering decisions are based on the instantaneous traffic information only. The performance and benefits of both approaches are discussed based on simulations considering both throughput and network resource usage. © 2007 IEEE.

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This paper reports a summary of the joint research activities on Optical Core Networks within the e-Photon-ONe+ project. It provides a reasonable overview of the topics considered of interest by the European research community and supports the idea of building joint research activities that can leverage on the expertise of different research groups. Thisworkwas supported by the e-Photon/ONe+ and BONE (“Building the Future Optical Network in Europe”) projects funded by the European Commission through the 6th and 7th ICT-Framework Programme