Steven Shepard

Optical Networking Crash Course

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Here is a clear, readable explanation of the hottest topic in telecommunications. In this resource, a telecommunications expert explains how to evaluate technologies, companies, equipment, and trends in optical networking. He delves into business strategies, future applications, convergence opportunities, and much more.

Produktdetails

• McGraw-Hill Telecommunications
• Verlag: McGraw-Hill Professional
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 398g
• ISBN-13: 9780071372084
• ISBN-10: 0071372083
• Artikelnr.: 21423752

Autorenporträt

Steven Shepard (Williston, VT) is a professional writer and educator specializing in international telecommunications. He has written and taught technical courses on a broad range of topics around the globe. He is the author of several books, including Telecommunications Convergence and Optical Networking Demystified.

Inhaltsangabe

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.