Optical Networking: Recent Developments, Issues, and Trends


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Optical Networking: Recent Developments, Issues, and Trends

Overview

Life Cycles of Technologies

Hype Cycles of Technologies

Industry Growth

Trend: Back to ILECs

Sparse and Dense WDM

Recent DWDM Records

Core Optical Networks

Optical Transport Products

OEO vs OOO Switches

Trend: LAN - WAN Convergence

SONET

SONET Functions

SONET vs Ethernet

SONET vs Ethernet: Remedies

RPR: Key Features

Access: Fiber To The X(FTTx)

Why PONs?

Fiber Access Thru Sewer Tubes (FAST)

FAST Installation

Summary

References

Author: Raj Jain

Home Page: http://www.cse.wustl.edu/~jain/index.html

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