As defined in Wikipedia, the Internet is a worldwide, publicly accessible series of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using the standard Internet Protocol (IP).

Their conclusion is that flow switching can easily increase the data rates of optical networks 100-fold and possibly 1, 000-fold, with further improvements of the network management scheme.

In optical burst switching (OBS) networks, the data channel scheduling algorithm is one of the key measures to improve the network performance.