Management architecture of peer-to-peer optical networks

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User-controlled optical networks have flexibility of composing application-specific transport networks and using network resources from different suppliers. Each user independently owns and manages some network resources. A group of users can compose application-specific transport networks. The end-to-end connections between the users in the group are established in a fully distributed, peer-to-peer manner. There is no centralized network management authority to coordinate such end-to-end connection establishment. The management architecture of peer-to-peer optical networks is dramatically different than the existing centralized optical network management architectures.