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Optical Networks


The optical network and its components are at the heart of carrier-class networks. Optical network design, optical network control and management, and selection and operation of such specific equipment as optical network switches and ROADMs is critical. Here you'll find help with those topics, plus DWDM, Sonet, passive optical networks, and more.
IN THIS TOPIC:  EXPERT TECHNICAL ADVICE (15) , NEWS (4) , REFERENCE & LEARNING (3) , DEFINITIONS (4)

  EXPERT TECHNICAL ADVICE: 1 - 3 of 15
Three optical and IP network architectures enable converged backbone
Submitted By: SearchTelecom.com | 17 Sep 2009
TIP - IP and optical networks can create a converged backbone using using three network architecture models -- IP-over-WDM, port-level grooming and finally subport-level grooming.
Alcatel-Lucent floats converged backbone concept to increase network value
Submitted By: SearchTelecom.com | 18 Sep 2009
TIP - Alcatel-Lucent is backing IP and optical converged backbones to increase applications enablement in service delivery networks to lower network costs and increase services revenue.
Nortel Metro Ethernet Networks assets: Why no sale?
Submitted By: SearchTelecom.com | 04 Sep 2009
TIP - Nortel's Metro Ethernet Network assets have been for sale for a year with no final bids. IDC analyst Eve Griliches looks at why a competing equipment vendor hasn't closed the deal.
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  NEWS: 1 - 3 of 4
NXTcomm 2008 is about telecom advances, not breakthroughs
SearchTelecom.com | 19 Jun 2008
ARTICLE - NXTcomm 2008 saw a lot of incremental telecom advances, as ideas years in the making start to penetrate market, explains analyst Ron Westfall in this video.
Telecom product and service news from NXTcomm08
SearchTelecom | 18 Jun 2008
ARTICLE - Telecom service providers and vendors made a wide variety of announcements at its annual NXTcomm08 trade show, with enhancements to existing technologies making most of the news.
Post-bust, backhaul providers are probably insulated from possible recession
SearchTelecom.com | 17 Apr 2008
ARTICLE - Burnt once by a telecom meltdown, backhaul providers are better prepared to weather a possible recession while keeping prices in check.
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  REFERENCE & LEARNING: 1 - 3 of 3
The physics of fiber in optical networks
SearchTelecom.com | 21 Jul 2009
CHAPTER DOWNLOAD - "Optical Fibers," Chapter 5, from The Cable and Telecommunications Handbook looks at the evolution of optical fibers and the impact of convergence on optical networks.
Best practices for optical network design
SearchTelecom.com | 11 Nov 2008
TELECOM INSIGHTS - Fiber-optic deployment has become the network technology of choice in metro and access networks, which means the list of best practices for fiber deployment is growing.
Working with optical networking's new capabilities
SearchTelecom.com | 05 May 2008
TELECOM INSIGHTS - The optical networking strategy telecom service providers choose now will define the advanced services they can offer later and when they can expect ROI.
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  DEFINITIONS: 1 - 3 of 4
ROADM (reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer)
18 Jul 2007
WORD - A reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer (ROADM) is a device that can add, block, pass or redirect modulated infrared (IR) and visible light beams of various wavelengths in a fiber optic network. ROADMs are used in ...
passive optical network
31 Jul 2001
WORD - A passive optical network (PON) is a system that brings optical fiber cabling and signals all or most of the way to the end user. Depending on where the PON terminates, the system can be described as fiber-to-the-curb (FTTC), ...
dense wavelength division multiplexing
18 Aug 2001
WORD - Dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) is a technology that puts data from different sources together on an optical fiber, with each signal carried at the same time on its own separate light wavelength. Using DWDM, up ...
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IPTV and Video on Demand, Telecom Routing and Switching, Carrier Ethernet, MPLS (Multi-protocol Label Switching) Networks



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