Provides a comprehensive and updated account of WDM optical network systems Optical
networking has advanced considerably since 2010. A host of new technologies and …

Following the emergence of lasers and optical fibers, optical networking made its beginning
in the 1970s with high-speed LANs/MANs. In the 1980s, when the bandwidth of intercity …

Optical WDM networking technology is spearheading a bandwidth revolution in the
networking infrastructure being developed for the next generation Internet. Rapid advances …

Internet information (which is doubling every six months) travels through optical fibers.
Today, optical fibers are being installed where a single fiber has the ability to carry …

Research and development on optical wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) networks
have matured considerably. While optics and electronics should be used appropriately for …

A comprehensive guide to understanding and configuring multiservice DWDM, SONET, and
SDH architectures Optical Network Design and Implementation provides in-depth coverage …

The essential guide to the state of the art in WDM and its vast networking potential As a
result of its huge transmission capacity and countless other advantages, fiber optics has …

While optical-transmission techniques have been researched for quite some time, optical"
networking" studies have been conducted only over the past dozen years or so. The field …

This handbook is an authoritative, comprehensive reference on optical networks, the
backbone of today's communication and information society. The book reviews the many …

Intended as an undergraduate/post graduate level textbook for courses on high speed
optical networks as well as computer networks. Nine chapters cover basic principles of the …