Overview
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A. Bononi
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Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università di Parma, Parma, Italy
Optical Networking is an ever-expanding field of increasing importance
Top experts from all over the world have combined their knowledge with industrial experience to provide a truly up-to-date overview of recent advances in the field. This book contains the proceedings of the 11th of these annual prestigious conferences
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Table of contents (39 papers)
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The EU sponsored DAWRON project
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- B. Pal, R. Gangopadhyay, Giancarlo Prati
Pages 328-339
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- B. Pal, R. Gangopadhaya, Giancarlo Prati
Pages 340-351
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- Hans-Jörg Thiele, Robert I. Killey, Vitaly Mikhailov, Polina Bayvel
Pages 352-363
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- A. Bononi, G. Bellotti, M. Varani, C. Francia
Pages 383-398
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Back Matter
Pages 399-400
About this book
The new information services provided worldwide through the Internet are fostering the upgrade of existing access and transmission plants, and the de ployment of new ones. The bandwidth bottlenecks of existing electronic plants are being gradually removed by the massive use of optics at all levels. The latest technological developments in optical system components have finally made the huge bandwidth of optical fibers available both for increas ing the amount of transmitted information and for reducing the transmission cost per information bit. Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) is now a commercial reality, widely employed in the upgrade of existing point-to point optical communications links, and in most upcoming newly installed fiber links. High speed Optical Time Division Multiplexing (OTDM) offers a complementary approach to WDM to tap even more into the fiber bandwidth. OTDM is however still in competition with Electronic TDM (ETDM), and as technology in integrated electronics progresses (along with the optical tech nology), the boundary where OTDM becomes more convenient than ETDM is still blurred and is a time-dependent variable. While the main design guidelines for point-to point optical links are now well established, much research work remains to be done in the area of optical networking, where the resources of many interconnected point-to point optical links are time shared. Work is to be done in the transmission field, as well as in the protocol, control and management field.
Editors and Affiliations
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Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università di Parma, Parma, Italy
A. Bononi