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Synchronous transmission standards >>>>Technical Concepts
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Fiber bandwidth and bands >>>>Technical Concepts
Fiber dispersion >>>>Technical Concepts
Jitter >>>>Technical Concepts
10Gb/s Ethernet Passive Optical Network (10GEPON) >>>>Technical Forums
Cisco Segmented Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching for the IP Next-Generation Network >>>>White Papers
MPCP -State of the Art >>>>Seminars&Tutorials

::: News Digest

Long-Haul DWDM Sales Surge as the Bandwidth Glut Ends, New Report Finds
Earthtimes.org:  Worldwide sales of long-haul DWDM (dense wavelength division multiplexing) products grew by more than 30 percent in 2006, to $1.8 billion, as network operators scrambled to add capacity in the wake of surging demand for bandwidth, according to a major new report from Heavy Reading (), the market research division of CMP Technology's Light Reading...more
Vendors Vie for FT GPON Deal
Light Reading:  FTTH Council Europe 2007 -- Fiber access equipment vendors are lining up to pitch for a gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) deal at France Telecom SA (NYSE: FTE - message board), which is planning to spend €270 million (US$351 million) on a fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) buildout during the next two years. (See FT Fleshes Out FTTH and PON & FTTx Update.) ...more
Lucent and Freescale, a semiconductor company, have teamed up for GPON
TMCnet:  Alcatel (News - Alert)-Lucent and Freescale, a semiconductor company, have teamed up in order to speed up the adoption of fiber-to-the-home technologies by jointly developing gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) technology and interoperability specifications for vendors of terminal equipment. ...more
Amedia to Deliver First-Ever GPON Home Gateway with Built-In Home Networking and Media Library
Business Wire (press release), CA:  Amedia Networks, Inc. (OTC BB: AANI), a provider of next generation media gateways to distribute and manage ultra-broadband triple-play services in the home, today announced the development of the worlds first GPON (Gigabit Passive Optical Network) gateway with built-in home networking capabilities and a personal media library. The HG-G1000 is being designed to provide the integrated functionality of an in-home Broadband Home Router (BHR), an outdoor Optical Network Term...more
MAGPI/University of Pennsylvania Connect to New Internet2 Network
PR Newswire (press release), NY:  Internet2 today announced that the MAGPI advanced networking hub at the University of Pennsylvania has connected to the new Internet2 Network, providing the research and education community in the Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware region access to the most high-performance nationwide networking capabilities available. The new network node located in Philadelphia extends the reach of Internet2's 100 Gigabit per second (Gbps) nationwide network to its members in the region. With ov...more
Asia’s Communications System Begins to Return to Normal
Asia Sentinel, China:  As the New Year dawns, Asia’s telecommunications and cable companies appear finally to be making progress in returning the region’s communications structure to normal in the wake of the December 26 earthquake that damaged undersea cables on the sea floor thousands of meters below the surface a few kilometers south of Ta...more

::: White Papers

Storage Transport - Cisco's Storage + Optical Advantage :  Enterprises appreciate the cost and administrative advantages of consolidating storage platforms and...more
Enabling Business Continuity Using Optical Ethernet Over SONET :  The objective of this white paper is to provide best practices and guidelines for building a Gigabit...more

::: E-Zines

Laser Focus World Magazine :  Magazine providing expertise in laser technology advances, photonics technology, photovoltaic techno......more
Fiber Optics Online: Digital Marketplace for the telecommunications industry :  Resource for professionals in the telecommunications industry- Information on fiber optics, data com......more

::: Industry Forums, Standard Bodies and Technical Groups

International Telecommunication Union (ITU) :  International Telecommunication Union (ITU) ...more
MFA Forum :  The MFA Forum is an international, industry-wide, nonprofit association of telecommunications, netwo...more

::: Magazines and Journals

IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS :  IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS is published monthly. Original contributions are welcomed which re...more
Journal of Network and Systems Management :  Journal of Network and Systems Management, features peer-reviewed original research as well as surve...more

::: Online Seminars and Tutorials

The Edge: Optical networking :  Optical networking resources from The Edge, Network World and the 'Net. ...more
MPCP -State of the Art :  The presentation introduces the state of the art of the current EPON's Multi-Point Control Protocol ...more

::: Books

Optical Networking Crash Course:  Penetrate the facts behind the speculation on optical networking's promise as a potential solution t...more
Metro Ethernet:  Metro Ethernet looks at the deployment of metro data services from a holistic view. It gives a descr...more

::: Network Planning and Simulation Tools

VPI transportmaker :  With an array of powerful network planning capabilities, VPItransportMaker can produce optimal netwo...more
OMNeT++ Discrete Event Simulation System (freeware) :  OMNeT++ is a public-source, component-based, modular and open-architecture simulation environment wi...more

::: Techincal Paper Search Engines

ITPapers search :  White paper search ...more
Computer Science Biblio. :  http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/...more

::: Free Patent Search

U.S. Patents :  A comprehensive bibliographic database containing records for each of the 2.6 million U.S. patents i...more
Complete list: Patent Search Engines :  Complete list: Patent Search Engines...more

::: Technical Writing and Research Skills

Advice on Research and Writing (compiled by Hui Zhang) :  A collection of advice about how to do research and how to communicate effectively (primarily for co...more
Writing Technical Articles :  The notes below apply to technical papers in computer science and electrical engineering, with empha...more

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