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Design of Optical WDM Networks

LAN, MAN and WAN Architectures

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  • © 2001

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Authors:
  1. Byrav Ramamurthy

    1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, USA

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Part of the book series: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science (SECS, volume 603)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Byrav Ramamurthy
      Pages 1-8

  3. Optical Network Devices

    1. Optical Network Devices

      • Byrav Ramamurthy
      Pages 9-31

  4. LAN/MAN Architectures

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33
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    2. Optimizing Amplifier Placements: The Equally-Powered Wavelengths Case

      • Byrav Ramamurthy
      Pages 35-59

    3. Optimizing Amplifier Placements: The Unequally-Powered Wavelengths Case

      • Byrav Ramamurthy
      Pages 61-81

  5. WAN Architectures

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83
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    2. Wavelength Conversion

      • Byrav Ramamurthy
      Pages 85-112

    3. Impact of Transmission Impairments on Network Performance

      • Byrav Ramamurthy
      Pages 113-129

    4. Conclusions

      • Byrav Ramamurthy
      Pages 131-133

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 135-166
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Lo, soul! seest thou not God's purpose from the first? The earth to be spann'd, connected by net-work From Passage to India! Walt Whitman, "Leaves of Grass", 1900. The Internet is growing at a tremendous rate today. New services, such as telephony and multimedia, are being added to the pure data-delivery framework of yesterday. Such high demands on capacity could lead to a "bandwidth-crunch" at the core wide-area network resulting in degra­ dation of service quality. Fortunately, technological innovations have emerged which can provide relief to the end-user to overcome the In­ ternet's well-known delay and bandwidth limitations. At the physical layer, a major overhaul of existing networks has been envisaged from electronic media (such as twisted-pair and cable) to optical fibers - in the wide area, in the metropolitan area, and even in the local area set­ tings. In order to exploit the immense bandwidth potential of the optical fiber, interesting multiplexing techniques have been developed over the years. Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) is such a promising tech­ nique in which multiple channels are operated along a single fiber si­ multaneously, each on a different wavelength. These channels can be independently modulated to accommodate dissimilar bit rates and data formats, if so desired. Thus, WDM carves up the huge bandwidth of an optical fiber into channels whose bandwidths (1-10 Gbps) are compati­ ble with peak electronic processing speed.

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`The field of optical WDM networks has experienced widespread attention and growth in recent years. This book, I believe, will be a welcome addition to the literature focusing on this exciting technology!'
From the Foreword by Professor Biswanath Mukherjee, University of California

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  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, USA

    Byrav Ramamurthy

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