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Emerging Optical Network Comprehensive Report
Format: Softcover, 372 pages
ISBN: 0-933217-97-8
Price:
$495
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OVERVIEW
As the industry faces exploding demand for bandwidth, network providers must consider alternatives to traditional transport architectures. A new data-transport network is needed to deliver high-bandwidth capacity economically and efficiently to a wide variety of end-user markets. To satisfy this demand, providers are advancing toward a major milestone in network evolution: the end-to-end all-optical network (AON).
The future of the AON remains uncertain, but, whatever its final shape, the next-generation optical network promises to provide the bandwidth flexibility, reliability, and network-management functions required to enable end-to-end wavelength services. This end-to-end solution is being advanced by a range of switching, dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM), and synchronous optical network (SONET)–migration technologies currently under development and deployment. As optical technologies are pushed deeper into the metro and local access networks, the prospect of an AON is slowly becoming a reality.
As optical networking progresses, however, service providers face difficult challenges when making key investment decisions. To help network operators take full advantage of optical networking technology, the International Engineering Consortium is pleased to present the Emerging Optical Network Comprehensive Report. This in-depth resource is designed to help readers understand the very latest optical developments, technologies, architectures, and market trends driving the next-generation network. With its range of perspectives on the promise of an AON, the Emerging Optical Network Comprehensive Report is a critical resource for any communications company that hopes to tackle today's optical networking challenge.