Description
Book SynopsisOptical Networks provides a comprehensive all-in-one text for beginning graduate as well as final-year undergraduate students, and also serves well for R&D engineers to quickly refresh the basics and then move on to emerging topics.
Trade Review...the book's coverage extends from history to technology basics to systems and applications, with copious amounts of detail and considerable mathematical depth. * Bogdan Hoanca, Optics & Photonics News *
Well written with a comprehensive coverage of all major aspects of optical networking today. * Keith Blow, Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies *
Thorough, authoritative, and very useful for graduate students, researchers, and industry practitioners. * Rudra Dutta, North Carolina State University *
Current and forward looking, with a systematic overview of the evolution of optical networks. * Marija Furdek, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden *
Table of Contents1: Optical Networks: An Overview 2: Technologies for Optical Networks 3: Optical Local/Metrpolitan-Area Networks 4: Optical Access Networks 5: SONET/SDH, OTN and RPR 6: WDM Local-Area Networks 7: WDM Access Networks 8: WDM Metro Networks 9: WDM Long-Haul Networks 10: Transmission Impairments and Power Consumption in Optical Networks 11: Survivability of Optical Networks 12: Optical Network Control and Management 13: Datacenter Networks 14: Elastic Optical Networks 15: Optical Packet and Burst-Switched Networks
