Telecommunications Technology Handbook

The telecommunications industry is going through challenging times, and this extensively revised second edition of the bestselling Telecommunications Technology Handbook is the resource you need to meet these challenges head on and to thrive in today’s telecom industry. To forecast market demand accurately and predictably, you can turn to the new section on marketing analysis techniques and market data sampling. Broadband, Ethernet, and wireless are emerging as de facto transmission technologies for enterprise networks, and new extensive coverage of these transmission technologies provides the hands-on knowledge you need to keep your career and your organization’s networking architecture on track. Thoroughly updated to the latest industry standards and practices, the second edition is an authoritative, comprehensive telecom and networking reference that covers today’s most critical areas, from SONET and NEXT-gen SONET to LANs and VLANs. Among the completely new technologies discussed are: Intelligent Optical networking, multilink frame relay, Transparent LAN Services, 10 Gigabit Ethernet for WANs, secure virtual private networks (VPNs), and Metro Ethernet. Contents: Introduction - What are the Directions in Telecom? What is Hot? What is Out? Broadband Communications, Local and Long Haul. Wireless. Optics (Technologies) - Fundamental Science. Fiber Types, Including Extended Band Fibers. DWDM Principles and Amplifiers. Optical Add/Drop and Optical Cross Connects. Optical Switches. All-Optical Networks - Architectures of All-Optical Networks. Advantages of All-Optical Networks. Applications of All-Optical Networks. Costs and Availability of All-Optical Networks. Intelligent Optical Networks (and GMPLS) - Architectures of Intelligent Optical Networks. Control Plane of Intelligent Optical Networks: GMPLS. Advantages of Intelligent Optical Networks. Applications of Intelligent Optical Networks. Costs and Availability of Intelligent Optical Networks. DWDM and CWDM - Motivations and History of DWDM. Standards and the ITU Grid. Sizing and Applications. Motivations and Applications of CWDM. Evolving Standards for CWDM. SONET and NEXT-gen SONET - SONET Technology and Architectures. Ring/Mesh. Long-Haul Applications. Metro Applications. Limitations. SONET and NEXT-gen SONET - Goals of NEXT-gen SONET. Players and Issues. Generic Framing Procedure. Ethernet over SONET. Wireless Technologies (WPAN, WLAN, WWAN, Fixed Wireless, FSO) - WPANs (IEEE 802.15, Bluetooth). WLANs (IEEE 802.11b, 11a, 11g). Hotspot and Nomadic Networks. Mobile IP. WAN Technologies (FR ATM, MPLS) - Recent Advances in FR. Recent Advances in ATM. MPLS Technology. MPLS Label Distribution Protocols. QoS in MPLS. VPN Support. Traffic Engineering. Moving Beyond T1: Multilink FR and Other Approaches - Choices Available to Users. Demand Curve. Why Users Don’t Move to Gigabit Services. Next Up From T1. Inverse Multiplexing. Multilink Services. LAN Technologies