Optical Switching and Networking Handbook

This resource provides the answers to help you make all needed decisions: financial, management, marketing, equipment, applications, and protocols. Written by best-selling author R.J. Bud Bates whose earlier books are telecom classics, youll find answers to these essential questions about optical switching and networking: 1) What is it? 2) What do I need to know about it? 3) Whats it going to do for me? 4) How much is it going to cost?

R. J. "Bud" Bates is the president of TCIC. With nearly three decades of communications and computing experience, he is recognized as one of the industry’s foremost experts. An instructor for major telecommunication companies such as Nortel, Fujitsu, and others, he has authored several books, including Disaster Recovery Planning, Disaster Recovery for LANs, Wireless Network Communications Client/Server Internetworking, and Voice and Data Communications Signature Edition, all published by McGraw-Hill. Bates resides in Phoenix, Arizona.

Chapter 1: Introduction to Fiber Optics.

Chapter 2: Photon vs. Electron.

Chapter 3: Basic Fiber Multiplexing.

Chapter 4: SONET.

Chapter 5: SONET and ATM.

Chapter 6: SDH.

Chapter 7: Wave Division Multiplexing (WDM).

Chapter 8: Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM).

Chapter 9: Optical Switching.

Chapter 10: Optical Switching as They Emerging.

Chapter 11: Optical Switches--Players, Technologies, Strategies.

Chapter 12: High Speed Applications.

Chapter 13: Deployment of Optical Systems.

Chapter 14: Transport and Routing.

Chapter 15: Installation and Muxing.

Chapter 16: Cost of Installation.

Chapter 17: Coming Standards.

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