Black, Uyless D. <br/><br/>
Optical networks :  third generation transport systems / 
Uyless Black. 
 - Upper Saddle River, N.J. :  Prentice Hall PTR,  c2002. 
 - xx, 331 p. :  ill., maps ;  25 cm. 
 - Prentice Hall series in advanced communications technologies .
<br/><br/>Introduction (Page-1), The Telecommunications Infrastructure (Page-23), Characteristics of Optical Fiber(Page-34), Timing and Synchronization (Page-50), SONET and SDH (Page-71), Architecture of Optical Transport Networks (OTNs) (Page-89), Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) (Page-112), Network Topologies and Protection Schemes (Page-127), MPLS and Optical Networks (Page-149), Architecture of IP and MPLS-based Optical Transport Networks (Page-166), The Link Management Protocol (LMP) (Page-193), Optical Routers: Switching in Optical Internets (Page-212), ASON Operations at the User Network Interface (UNI) and the Network-to-Network Interface (NNI) (Page-243),  ATM vs. IP in Optical Internets (Page-259), Optical Internets: Evolving to a 3G Architecture (Page-281). 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0130607266 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2002018902 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Telecommunication engineering
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>621.3827,BLA