Optical Networking Standards: A Comprehensive Guide for Professionals

Includes recently approved adopted and implemented standards for versatile switches, routers and multi-service provisioning platforms.

Numerous illustrative examples showing actual situations or cases implemented.

Covers the activities of all the major optical networking standards bodies and forums (ITU-T, IETF, MEF, and OIF).

Over 25 lead contributors and editors of the standards from networking power houses such as Lucent Technologies, Nortel, Marconi, Cisco, British Telecom, Agere Systems, AMCC, PMC-Sierra, Atrica and independent consultants, have come together to make this work a reality.

The volume has been edited by Khurram Kazi, a networking consultant who holds a PhD from University of Connecticut with over 17 years of real-world expertise in the designing ASICs and systems for SONET, IP, ATM, PDH and Ethernet networks. He has published papers and conference tutorials ranging from optical components, to ASICs, to Optical Networks.