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ISBN10: 007138281X | ISBN13: 9780071382816

Optical Networking Crash Course, 1st Edition

ISBN10: 007138281X
ISBN13: 9780071382816
By Steven Shepard

© 2001 Published February 20, 2001

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Part One: The Optical Networking Marketplace.

Chapter 1: Toward a New Network Model.

Chapter 2: A Corollary: The Data Network.

Chapter 3: The Local Service Providers' Response.

Chapter 4: Service Regions of the Optical Network.

Chapter 5: The Optical Networking Applications Set.

Chapter 6: A Brief History of the Network.

Chapter 7: The Traditional Digital Hierarchy.

Chapter 8: The Birth of Optical Networking: Sonet and SDH.

Chapter 9: Switching and Routing.

Chapter 10: The Service Provider's World: Back to Switching and Routing.

Chapter 11: Ring Architectures in the Optical Domain.

Chapter 12: Amplification and Regeneration.

Part Two: From Copper to Glass.

Chapter 13: Overview of Optical Technology.

Chapter 14: Total Internal Reflection.

Chapter 15: Later Developments in Optical Networking.

Chapter 16: Fundamentals of Optical Networking.

Chapter 17: Optical Sources.

Chapter 18: Optical Fiber.

Chapter 19: Optical Fiber.

Chapter 20: Putting It All Together.

Chapter 21: Fiber Nonlinearities.

Chapter 22: Intermodulation Effects.

Chapter 23: Scattering Problems.

Chapter 24: An Aside: Optical Amplification.

Chapter 25: Pulling it all Together.

Chapter 26: Optical Receivers.

Chapter 27: Photodetector Types.

Chapter 28: Optical Fiber.

Chapter 29: Multimode Fiber.

Chapter 30: Single-Mode Fiber.

Chapter 31: Why Do We Care?

Part Three: Corollary Technologies.

Chapter 32: Introduction.

Chapter 33: Optical Cable Assemblies.

Chapter 34: Fiber Cable Architectures.

Chapter 35: The Special Case of Submarine Cables.

Chapter 36: Fiber Installation Options.

Chapter 37: Commercial Fiber Products.

Chapter 38: An Aside: Freespace Optics.

Chapter 39: Summary.

Chapter 40: Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM).

Chapter 41: Optical Switching and Routing.

Chapter 42: Network Management.

Part Four: Solutions and Applications.

Chapter 43: The Optical Hierarchy of Motivation.

Chapter 44: Players in the Network Game.

Chapter 45: Reinventing the Network.

Chapter 46: Toward a New Network Paradigm.

Chapter 47: Why the Evolution?

Chapter 48: The Evolving IP Protocol Model.

Chapter 49: IP's Promise.

Chapter 50: Protocol Assemblies: Putting it Together.

Chapter 51: One More time: Putting it All Together.

Chapter 52: The Future.

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