TY - GEN AU - Black,Uyless D. TI - Optical networks: third generation transport systems SN - 0130607266 U1 - 621.3827,BLA PY - 2002/// CY - Upper Saddle River, N.J. PB - Prentice Hall PTR KW - Telecommunication engineering N1 - 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) ER -