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Delivering carrier Ethernet : extending Ethernet beyond the LAN / Abdul Kasim ... [et al.].
- Title
- Delivering carrier Ethernet : extending Ethernet beyond the LAN / Abdul Kasim ... [et al.].
- Publication
- New York : McGraw-Hill, c2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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- Additional Authors
- Kasim, Abdul.
- Description
- xxvi, 550 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Carrier Ethernet is rapidly becoming the de facto platform for offering the next generation of high-bandwidth multimedia applications...[this book] provides an in-depth assessment of the various network solutions that can be used to deliver Carrier Ethernet services...based on extensive real-world deployments and is written by globally renowned experts...addresses each underlying technology, its benefits and pitfalls, deployment approaches, ongoing developments, economic assessments, and key vendors promoting the solution...[Explains how] Carrier Ethernet is delivered over: copper, HFC (Hybrid Fiber-Coax), PONs (Passive Optical Networks), TDM (Time Division Multiplexing), Fiber and WDM (Wavelength Division Multiplexing), Optical wireless mesh network/free space optics, SONET (Synchronous optical NETworking) / MSPP (Multi-Service Provisioning Platform), RPR (Resilient Packet Ring), Bridging/switching, MPLS (MultiProtocol Label Switching), WiMAX/WiMAC.
- Series Statement
- McGraw-Hill communications
- Uniform Title
- McGraw-Hill communications.
- Subject
- Ethernet (Local area network system)
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Part I: Setting the Stage Chapter 1: FROM THE LAN TO CARRIER ETHERNET Chapter 2: CARRIER ETHERNET Chapter 3: THE MARKET OPPORTUNITY Part II: Solutions Chapter 4: SOLUTION FRAMEWORK Chapter 5: COPPER Chapter 6: HYBRID FIBER COAXIAL (HFC) Chapter 7: PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORKS (PONs) Chapter 8: FIBER/WAVE DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (WDM) Chapter 9: WIRELESS -- FREE SPACE OPTICS Chapter 10: TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING Chapter 11: SONET/MSPP Chapter 12: RPR Chapter 13: LAYER 2 SWITCHING Chapter 14: VPLS/MPLS Chapter 15: WiMAX Part III: A Look into the Future Chapter 16: A LOOK INTO THE FUTURE.
- ISBN
- 9780071487474
- 0071487476
- LCCN
- ^^2007042226
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library