| IP over WDM: Building the Next Generation Optical Internet | 
| Creator: Sudhir Dixit
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1901608
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 500
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.3 x 1.3
ISBN: 0471212482
Dewey Decimal Number: 621.3827
EAN: 9780471212485
ASIN: 0471212482
Publication Date: March 28, 2003
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Product Description
* The key technology to delivering maximum bandwidth over networks is Dense Wave-length Division Multiplexing (DWDM)
* Describes in detail how DWDM works and how to implement a range of transmission protocols
* Covers device considerations, the pros and cons of various network layer protocols, and quality of service (QoS) issues
* The authors are leading experts in this field and provide real-world implementation examples
* First book to describe the interplay between the physical and IP (Internet Protocol) layers in optical networks
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Inevitable growth February 22, 2004
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book claims to be the first to describe how to combine the physical layer of a DWDM optical network with the Internet Protocol layer of a TCP/IP structure. Can this be so? It was published in late 2003. Seems rather late. Surely another earlier book would have described this topic.Certainly, there is no gainsaying the importance of the topic. DWDM is used in long haul optical networks, because those fibres are at a premium. But DWDM is probably also increasingly used in shorted optical networks, like inside a city. If the net is used primarily for phone transmission, then those protocols are quite different from TCP/IP. But the growth rates of data transmission are greater in the developed world than those for voice, typically. And it appears that eventually, the Internet will subsume other communications protocols. Hence the need for this topic and a book like this. It explains DWDM to a newcomer to the field. Experienced readers can safely skip entire sections of the book. On discussions of Quality of Service, IPv6 is mentioned. Because it is really only in this that QoS can be implemented at a fundamental level. The current IP (version 4) was never designed with QoS in mind.
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