Cisco Self-study: Building Cisco Metro Optical Networks Metro - Hardcover

Warren, Dave; Hartmann, Dennis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1587050706 ISBN 13: 9781587050701

Publisher: Cisco Systems, 2003

Synopsis

Plan, design, and configure high-speed fiber-optic networks

Coverage includes:

• Configuring ONS 15454 and ONS 15327 platforms
• Architecture for building Metropolitan Ethernet Transparent LAN Services (TLS)
• Packet over SONET (PoS) network design, configuration, and verification
• Inner workings of dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM), including operability with the ONS 15216 product family
• Principles of Dynamic Packet Transport (DPT)
• SONET background, including structures, components, and network design
• Bonus case studies, which challenge you to select equipment and design a metro optical network

Fiber-optic networking has several significant advantages over traditional wired and wireless networks: optical signals can travel much farther than electrical signals, are more secure, are resistant to electromagnetic interference, and have the potential to provide bandwidth in the terabits per second range (1000 Gbps).

Service providers must satisfy the always-increasing networking demands of customers while keeping costs to a minimum. Optical networks must meet the challenge of supporting multiple types of transmissions including voice, video, and data traffic. Although time-division multiplexing (TDM) has provided a growth path for services, it is more constrained than IP + Optical strategies like the Cisco Dynamic Packet Transport (Resilient Packet Ring). The Cisco Systems® end-to-end IP + Optical networking strategy provides an intelligent converged network in which optical infrastructures can be used to their fullest potential.

While most reference books focus on the theory involved in SONET and optical infrastructures, Cisco Self-Study: Building Cisco Metro Optical Networks (METRO) focuses on the practical application of planning and configuring optical networks that involve SONET, DWDM, Metropolitan Ethernet, Packet over SONET, and Dynamic Packet Transport (Resilient Packet Ring).

Cisco Self-Study: Building Cisco Metro Optical Networks (METRO) is part of a recommended learning path from Cisco Systems that can include simulation and hands-on training from authorized Cisco Learning Partners and self-study products from Cisco Press. To find out more about instructor-led training, e-learning, and hands-on instruction offered by authorized Cisco Learning Partners worldwide, please visit www.cisco.com/go/authorizedtraining.

This volume is in the Certification Self-Study Series offered by Cisco Press. Books in this series provide officially developed training solutions to help networking professionals understand technology implementations and prepare for the Cisco Career Certifications examinations.

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About this title

From the Back Cover

Learn Metro Optical design and implementation with the only approved self-study guide for the CCIP Metro Optical elective examThe only approved self-study book for the CCIP Metro Optical elective examOptical reference for IT managers for applying optical solutionsReal-world case studies provide implementation examples with practical valueCD-ROM testing engine with over 200 questions for exam preparationFiber-optic networking, on both small and large scales, has two significant advantages over traditional wire and wireless networks: optical signals can travel enormous distances without the need for amplification, and they provide enormous bandwidth, hundreds of times larger than that of other media. The technology is there, but services that benefit from optical networks continue to lag. Although optical bandwidth of up to even a wavelength (2.5 Gbps) is available for purchase, what is missing are the value-added services.Building Cisco Metro Optical Networks is a reference guide for IT directors, network engineers, and other networking professionals looking to utilize the benefits of optical networking. It provides detailed information on configuring Metro Optical Transport Platforms, Packet over SONET and the network components of WDM and DWDM and their specifications. Based upon official Cisco training materials for the Building Cisco Metro Optical Networks course, the proposed book may also be used as a study guide for students seeking CCIP certification with an emphasis on optical Metro and Core topics.

About the Author

Dave Warren, CCNP, CCDP, is an independent consultant and trainer in the computer and networking industry. Mr. Warren has been training internal Cisco SEs and AMs in the Cisco Optical Product line.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cisco Systems
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1587050706
• ISBN 13: 9781587050701
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 700