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Optical Networking

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1999

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Editors:
  1. A. Bononi

    1. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università di Parma, Parma, Italy

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  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
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  2. Boundaries of the Optical Network Layer in Future Communications Networks

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. An Overview of the Optical Network Layer

      • Goff Hill
      Pages 3-7

    3. Attributes of the Next Generation Sprint Optical Transport Network

      • Mark Loyd Jones, Robert K. Butler
      Pages 8-13

    4. Internetworking with Domains and All-Optical Islands

      • Erland Erland.Almström, Claus Popp Larsen
      Pages 14-25

    5. The Optical Layer. What Strategy for the Future?

      • S. Ferguson, P. Gigghino
      Pages 26-35

    6. Future Optical Metropolitan Area Networks

      • S. M. Gemelos, D. Wonglumsom, I. M. White, K. Shrikhade, L. G. Kazovsky, H. Huey
      Pages 36-47

    7. KomNet — A Modular Platform to Assess Optical Networking Techniques and Components

      • Klaus-Dieter Langer, Joachim Vathke, Godehard Walf
      Pages 48-51

    8. Performance Analysis of Wavelength Division Multiplexing Mesh Networks

      • Guido Maier, Mario Martinelli, Achille Pattavina, Matteo Pierpaoli
      Pages 52-63

  3. Management of the Optical Network Layer

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65
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    2. Optical Transport Network Management

      • Gordon Harney, Rajiv Ramaswami
      Pages 67-76

    3. Optical Layer Protection and Restoration

      • Paul Bonenfant
      Pages 77-88

    4. An Overview of Optical Network Standards

      • Alan McGuire
      Pages 89-95

    5. Proposal for a Multivendor Multitechnique NM Architecture

      • Carlo Tardini
      Pages 96-102

    6. Supervisory Management and Lightpath Restoration for Wavelength Routing Networks

      • F. Tong, T. S. Yum, C. C. Hui
      Pages 103-114

    7. The “MOON” Light on TMN and OAM Concepts

      • Antonella Sanguineti, Stefano Brunazzi, Salvatore Rotolo
      Pages 115-126

  4. Fiber, Optoelectronic, and Integrated-Optic Devices and Components for Switched/Unswitched Optical Networks

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
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    2. Functional Planar Waveguide Devices

      • Katsunari Okamoto
      Pages 129-140

    3. Micro-mechanical Approaches to Optical Network Elements

      • Lih Y. Lin, Evan L. Goldstein
      Pages 141-146

    4. Optical Components in Silica-on-Silicon Technology: a European perspective

      • D. Di Mola
      Pages 147-158
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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.

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  • Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università di Parma, Parma, Italy

    A. Bononi

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