Internet traffic engineering

Internet traffic engineering refers to all the work related to the physical network (usually optical cables, routers, exchanges) that carries Internet traffic between different networks with the objective of reaching the highest levels of capacity in the Internet backbone.

References

• Abdel-Hameed Nawar, "E-Commerce" Lecture Notes, Cairo University, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Egypt, 2005. et al.
• D. Awduche, A. Chiu, A. Elwalid, I. Widjaja, X. Xiao, RFC3272, Overview and Principles of Internet Traffic Engineering (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3272.txt)