Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction and Overview -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Protocol Model Baseline -- 1.3 Some Modeling Considerations -- 1.4 Rest of the Book -- Appendix 1A: One View on Regulation -- 2. Optics Technologies -- 2.1 Transmission Systems -- 2.2 Optical Fibers -- 2.3 Fiber-Optic Elements -- 3. All-Optical Networks -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Motivations, Goals, and Approaces -- 3.3 OTN Standards Support -- 3.4 Introductory Concepts -- 3.5 Basic OTN Technical Concepts -- 3.6 Implementations -- 3.7 Other Developments -- 4. Intelligent Optical Networks and GMPLS -- 4.1 ION Overview -- 4.2 ION Concepts -- 4.3 Deployment Status -- 5. Dense and Coarse WDM -- 5.1 Introduction to the Technology -- 5.2 Operation of a Transponder-Based DWDM System -- 5.3 Network Design Evolutions -- 5.4 CWDM -- 6. SONET abd SDH -- 6.1 Introduction to SONET/SDH -- 6.2 SONET/SDH Interleaving -- 6.3 Detail of the Transport Overhead -- 6.4 Concatenated Payloads -- 6.5 Mapping of SONET/SDH Payloads -- 6.6 Automatic Protection Switching -- Appendix 6A: SDH -- 7. Next Generation SONET, GFP, and Ethernet over SONET -- 7.1 GFP -- 7.2 Ethernet over SONET -- 8. Wireless Technologies: WPAN, WLAN, and WWAN -- 8.1 Overview -- 8.2 Standards -- 8.3 Technology Basics -- 9. WAN Data Services and Technologies: FR, ATM, and MPLS -- 9.1 Recent Advances in FR -- 9.2 Recent Advances in ATM -- 9.3 MPLS Technology -- 10. Moving Beyond T1: Multilink FR and Other Approaches -- 10.1 Motivations and Scope -- 10.2 MFR -- 10.3 Comparing Alternatives -- 11. Boradband LAN Technologies: GbE and 10GbE -- 11.1 LAN Introduction -- 11.2 Gigabit Ethernet/IEEE 802.3z -- 11.3 10GbE -- 12. Transparent LAN Services -- 12.1 Architectures -- 12.2 MPLS-Based Transplant LAN Services -- 13. Digital Video and Multimedia Technologies and Applications -- 13.1 Introduction.

13.2 ITU-T H.320/H.323 -- 13.3 Basic Compression Concepts and the MPEG Family -- About the Author -- Index.