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Book SynopsisWritten by leading practitioners from such cutting-edge companies as Alcatel, Siemens, Lucent, France Telecom, BT, and Telefonica, Core and Metro Networks provides a comprehensive overview of the status, the challenges, the architectures, and technological solutions for core and metropolitan networks aiming to support broadband services.
Table of ContentsPreface
1 The Emerging Core and Metropolitan Networks
Andrea Di Giglio, Angel Ferreiro and Marco Schiano
1.1 Introduction
1.2 General Characteristics of Transport Network
1.3 Future Networks Challenges
1.4 New Transport Networks Architectures
1.5 Transport Networks Economics
Acronyms
References
2 The Advances in Control and Management for Transport Networks
Dominique Verchere and Bela Berde
2.1 Drivers Towards More Uniform Management and Control Networks
2.2 Control Plane as Main Enabler to Autonomic Network Integration
2.3 Multilayer Interactions and Network Models
2.4 Evolution of Connection Services and Special Cases of Optical Networks
2.5 Conclusion
References
3 Elements from Telecommunications Engineering
Chris Matrakidis, John Mitchell and Benn Thomsen
3.1 Digital Optical Communication Systems
3.2 Performance Estimation
References
4 Enabling Technologies
Stefano Santoni, Roberto Cigliutti, Massimo Giltrelli, Pasquale Donadio,
Chris Matrakidis, Andrea Paparella, Tanya Politi, Marcello Potenza,
Erwan Pincemin and Alexandros Stavdas
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Transmitters
4.3 Receiver
4.4 The Optical Fiber
4.5 Optical Amplifiers
4.6 Optical Filters and Multiplexers
References
5 Assessing Physical Layer Degradations
Andrew Lord, Marcello Potenza, Marco Forzati and Erwan Pincemin
5.1 Introduction and Scope
5.2 Optical Power Budgets, Part I
5.3 System Bandwidth
5.4 Comments on Budgets for Nonlinear Effects and Optical Transients
5.5 Semianalytical Models for Penalties
5.6 Translucent or Hybrid Networks
5.7 Appendix
References
6 Combating Physical Layer Degradations
Herbert Haunstein, Harald Rohde, Marco Forzati, Erwan Pincemin,
Jonas Martensson, Anders Djupsj€obacka and Tanya Politi
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Dispersion-Compensating Components and Methods for CD and PMD
6.3 Modulation Formats
6.4 Electronic Equalization of Optical Transmission Impairments
6.5 FEC in Lightwave Systems
6.6 Appendix: Experimental Configuration and Measurement Procedure for Evaluation and Comparison for Different Modulation Formats for 40 Gbit/s Transmission
Acknowledgments
References
Dictionary of Optical Networking
Didier Colle, Chris Matrakidis and Josep Sol_e-Pareta
Acronyms
Index
