Emerging Optical Network Comprehensive Report

Format: Softcover, 372 pages
ISBN: 0-933217-97-8
Price: $495

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part I: Metro-Area Optical Networks

• Requirements and Solutions for Reconfigurable Metro WDM Networks
• Optical Networking in the Metro Area
• Bringing Broadband IP Services to Small Businesses in Metropolitan Areas
• Fiber Solutions for All-Optical Networks for Metro
• Optical Access Can Provide Flexibility in Architectures
• Transparent LAN Services over Metropolitan Optical Networks
• Next Wave of Optical Networking: The Metro Arena
• Metropolitan Network Transport Requirements
• Optical Access Networking: The Last Mile of the All-Optical Network

Part II: Optical-Network Evolution and Market Drivers

• Migration to an All-Optical Network
• The Bandwidth “Big Bang” Meets “The Farm System”
• Building Future Optical Networks
• The All-Optical Network
• Next-Generation Optical Networking
• The Optical Networking Industry
• Convergence of Optics, ATM, and IP
• Beyond Data-Aware SONET
• Next-Generation Optical Transport Networks: Terabit Optical Link Architecture Based on 40 Gbps Transmission

Part III: Delivering Optical Services and Applications

• Meeting Carrier and End-User Needs with a Dynamic Optical Services Network
• Impact of Optical Networking on Service and Transport Network Planning
• The Digitization of Radiology within the Army Medical Department
• Real-Life Lessons Learned
• Small Operator Takes Network to Marketplace in a Big Way

Part IV: DWDM and Optical Technology Advances

• Guided-Wave Optical Components for DWDM Transmission Systems Using ADMs
• Dynamic Signaling for Photonic Networks
• EDFA Gain Flattening Filters Using Tapered Erbium-Doped Fiber
• New Dynamics and Requirements for the Optical Network
• Amplified System Technology Trends and Their Impact on the Design of High-Capacity Networks
• Deep Fiber Architectures for Multiple-Service Revenue
• DWDM, Gigabit Routing, and Optical Switching in the Carrier Networks
• Opto-Electrical Cross-Connects (OEXCs) with Virtual Transparency of Optical Networks
• Optical Waves
• Routing of Wavelengths in Switched Optical Networks Based on Optical-Domain Noise
• Ringbusters: With Optical Mesh, Carriers Can Stop Going in Circles for “New-World Bandwidth”
• Why Is Turning Up and Maintaining a Wavelength So Difficult in a DWDM System?
• Simplification of the Optical Layer in the Core Backbone Network by Use of Packet-Based Technology and Wavelength Multiplex–Level Protection
• Improving Network Efficiency with ATM–Based Optical Transport

Part V: OSS and Network Management

• Optical Q-Factor Measurement—What’s It All About?
• Optimization of Optical Networks Testing Resources
• Optical Management from a Service Provider’s Perspective
• Full-Band, 40 Gbps, Long-Haul Transport Enabled by HOM Dispersion Management
• Issues Relating to Network-Design Sweet Spots for Reducing Cost
• Dynamic Control of SONET/SDH/DWDM Transport Networks to Carry Data Traffic More Efficiently
• Operations Support for Optical Networks Present and Future: A Network Management System Provider’s Perspective
• An Optical Payload and Network Management Platform for Metro Optical Networks