Optical Networking Standards: A Comprehensive Guide

1. Overview
Khurram Kazi

Part 1. Optical Transport Network Infrastructure

2. Architecture of Transport Networks
Eve Varma, Carmine Daloia

3. Interfaces for Optical Transport Networks
Timothy P. Walker, Khurram Kazi

4. Multiplex Structures of the Optical Transport Network
Huub Helvoort, Mimi Dannhardt

5. Generic Framing Procedure (GFP)
Enrique J. Hernandez-Valencia

6. Synchronization of Optical Networks
Geoffrey M. Garner, Gert H. Manhoudt

7. Synchronization Architectures for SONET/SDH Systems and Networks
P. Stephan Bedrosian

8. Network Survivability
Ghani Abbas

Part 2. Services Offered Over Transport Networks

9. Metro Ethernet Overview and Architecture
Nan Chen

10. Ethernet Services Over Metro Ethernet Networks
Bob Klessig

11. Ethernet Services Over Public Wan
Steven S. Gorshe, Nevin R. Jones

12. Ethernet Services Over MPLS Networks
Iftekhar Hussain

13. Metro Ethernet Circuit mulation Services
Nan Chen

14. Metro Ethernet Network Resiliency and Traffic Management
Nan Chen

15. Sonet Services for Storage Area Networks
Richard Orgias

Part 3. Control and Management of Transport Networks

16. Architecting the Automatically Switched Transport Network
Alan McGuire, George Newsome, Lyndon Ong, Jonathan Sadler, Stephen Shew, Eve Varma

Part 4. Intra-Network Elements and Component-Centric Standards

17. Intra-Network Elements Communication
Khurram Kazi

18. Itu Optical Interface Standards
Peter J. J. Stassar

19. High-Speed Serial Interconnect
Adam Healey

Part 5. Standards Development Process

20. Standards Development Process
Tracy Dupree, Stephen J. Trowbridge

Keywords: Engineering, Communications Engineering, Networks, Computer Communication Networks, Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering, Applied Optics, Optoelectronics, Optical Devices, Electronic and Computer Engineering