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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Minoli, Daniel, 1952-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : Artech House, ©2003.
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Artech House telecommunications library.
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Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Segmentation
  • Protocol Model Baseline
  • Protocol Framework
  • Some Notable Trends
  • Some Modeling Considerations
  • Size of U.S. Industry
  • Growth of the Internet During the Late 1990s into the Early 2000s
  • Growth of Wireless During the Late 1990s and Early 2000s
  • Wireless Internet
  • One View on Regulation
  • Optics Technologies
  • Transmission Systems
  • Optical Fibers
  • Fiber-Optic Medium Performance
  • Dispersion Compensation Approaches
  • Fiber Products
  • Fiber-Optic Elements
  • Optical Transmitters
  • Fiber-Optic Receivers
  • WDM Elements
  • Regenerators and Optical Amplifiers
  • Optical Network Elements in Common Use
  • Applications
  • All-Optical Networks
  • Motivations, Goals, and Approaches
  • OTN Standards Support
  • Evolutionary Approach
  • Framework
  • Basic OTN Technical Concepts
  • Implementations
  • Intelligent Optical Networks and GMPLS
  • Positioning of GMPLS in ASTN/ASON
  • ASON Architecture Principles
  • ASON Control Plane Requirements
  • ASON Functional Architecture
  • ASON Reference Points and GMPLS Protocols
  • ASON/ASTN CP Transport Network (Signaling Network)
  • Transport Network Survivability and Protection
  • Relationship to GMPLS Architecture
  • Other ASON/ASTN-Related ITU Activities
  • Deployment Status
  • Dense and Coarse WDM
  • Introduction to the Technology
  • How Does WDM Work?
  • Enabling Technologies
  • Technical Details
  • Operation of a Transponder-Based DWDM System
  • Network Design Evolutions
  • Long-Haul Application Scope
  • Metro Access/Metro Core Application Scope.