Metro Area Networking

Promising delivery of backbone-size bandwidth locally, where it's needed, the metro area glows with vast profit potential-and some of the most brazen hype and outrageously confusing counterclaims in communications. Now Steven Shepard puts things in focus. One of tech's top writers, Shepard brings you clarity, breadth, and depth of vision-and a winning wit-to make understanding metro area networking a pleasure.

You must read this book if-

• You intend to explore the most potentially lucrative area of telecom
• Unlimited bandwidth appeals to you
• You work in communications management or technology but are not thoroughly versed in metro area networking
• It's your job to open the MAN bottleneck and let the bandwidth flow
• Robust recovery, ease of local routing, and features such as QoS (Quality of Service), OSS (Operations Support Systems), and MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) could be useful bottleneck-breakers
• Orders-of-magnitude increases in bandwidth on a given strand of fiber are desirable
• The question of which technologies are most likely to succeed in MANs falls into your need-to-know category
• A roadmap to Sonet, DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing), Fibre Channel, InfiniBand, 10 Gb Ethernet, Bluetooth, and other technologies in the MAN would be a valuable commodity
• Knowing how VPNs (Virtual Private Networks) and SANs (Storage Area Networks) fit into Metro Area Networks sounds rewarding
• The words dynamic routing, bandwidth increase, and packet addressing send shivers down your spine
• You have a stake in business, and your business has a stake in the Internet
• Investing in business crucial to the future of the Internet makes your wallet nn-1

Contents

• The Evolution of Modern Networks
• Further Diversification
• Core Versus Edge: A Few Words
• The Birth of Metro
• Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI)
• Switched Multimegabit Data Service (SMDS)
• The Maturing Metro Market
• Metro Market Segments
• Carrier-Class Ethernet
• MPLS/GMPLS-Enabled Networks
• DWDM
• The Next-Generation Intelligent Network
• Network Management
• An Aside: Resilient Packet Ring (RPR)
• Anatomy of the Metro Network: The Edge
• The Multiservice Metro Network
• Network Inversion
• Cisco's Central Role
• The Metro Network: Access
• Anatomy of the Metro Network: The Core
• Optical Burst Switching
• Freespace Optics
• Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
• Metro Topologies
• Point-to-Point Architectures
• Ring Architectures
• Summary

• What is a Metro Network?
• Metro Touch Points
• Long-Haul Networks
• Access Networks
• The Metro Area Itself
• The Evolving Metro Network
• Metro Demographics
• Regulatory Impacts
• Likely Regulatory Solutions
• Summary

• Introduction
• Overview and Terminology
• Ethernet Services
• Ethernet: A Brief History
• Phase Two: Xerox and DEC
• The Arrival of Fast Ethernet
• Full-Duplex Ethernet
• Up the Stack: The Ethernet Physical Layer
• The Arrival of Fast Ethernet (100BaseT)
• 10-Gigabit Ethernet
• Ethernet Summary
• Service Providers
• Alternative Premises Schemes
• Access Technologies
• Marketplace Realities
• ISDN
• Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
• Cable-Based Access Technologies
• Wireless Access Technologies
• Transport Technologies
• Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
• Optical Networking
• Putting It All Together
• Fiber Nonlinearities
• Intermodulation Effects
• Optical Amplification
• Optical Receivers
• Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM)
• Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing (CWDM)
• Optical Switching and Routing
• Switching Versus Routing: What's the Difference?
• Switching in the Optical Domain
• Multipoint Circuit Support
• Nonintrusive Monitoring
• New Services
• Transporting Subrate Payloads: Virtual Tributaries
• SDH Nomenclature
• Metro Interworking: SONET and Ethernet

• Data Mining
• Knowledge Management
• Obstacles to Effective Knowledge Management
• Managing Quality of Service (QoS)
• An Aside: The SLA
• Supply-Chain Issues
• ERP in the Telecomm Space
• Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
• Putting It All Together
• Network Management in Metro Networks
• Summary

• Component Manufacturers
• The Component Players
• Systems Manufacturers
• Appian Communications
• Service Provider Issues