Telecommunications technology handbook / Daniel Minoli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Minoli, Daniel, 1952-

Series:

Artech House telecommunications library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Telecommunication.

Data transmission systems.

Physical Description:

xvi, 785 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Artech House, [2003]

Summary:

The telecommunications industry is going through challenging times, and this extensively revised second edition is the resource every telecom professional needs to meet these challenges head on and to thrive in today's telecom industry.

Contents:

1.1.1 Segmentation 6

1.2 Protocol Model Baseline 12

1.2.1 Protocol Framework 12

1.2.2 Some Notable Trends 15

1.3 Some Modeling Considerations 15

1.3.1 Size of U.S. Industry 15

1.3.2 Growth of the Internet During the Late 1990s into the Early 2000s 23

1.3.3 Growth of Wireless During the Late 1990s and Early 2000s 28

1.3.4 Wireless Internet 30

Appendix 1A One View on Regulation 38

2 Optics Technologies 41

2.1 Transmission Systems 41

2.2 Optical Fibers 44

2.2.1 Fiber-Optic Medium Performance 46

2.2.2 Dispersion Compensation Approaches 47

2.2.3 Fiber Products 51

2.3 Fiber-Optic Elements 53

2.3.1 Optical Transmitters 53

2.3.2 Fiber-Optic Receivers 55

2.3.3 WDM Elements 55

2.3.4 Regenerators and Optical Amplifiers 57

2.3.5 Optical Network Elements in Common Use 59

2.3.6 Applications 66

3 All-Optical Networks 69

3.2 Motivations, Goals, and Approaches 73

3.3 OTN Standards Support 77

3.4.1 Evolutionary Approach 84

3.4.2 Framework 86

3.5 Basic OTN Technical Concepts 87

3.6 Implementations 92

4 Intelligent Optical Networks and GMPLS 99

4.1.2 Positioning of GMPLS in ASTN/ASON 110

4.2.2 ASON Architecture Principles 113

4.2.3 ASON Control Plane Requirements 115

4.2.4 ASON Functional Architecture 116

4.2.5 ASON Reference Points and GMPLS Protocols 117

4.2.6 ASON/ASTN CP Transport Network (Signaling Network) 120

4.2.7 Transport Network Survivability and Protection 121

4.2.8 Relationship to GMPLS Architecture 122

4.2.9 Other ASON/ASTN-Related ITU Activities 123

4.3 Deployment Status 129

5 Dense and Coarse WDM 133

5.1 Introduction to the Technology 135

5.1.1 How Does WDM Work? 141

5.1.2 Enabling Technologies 143

5.1.3 Technical Details 148

5.2 Operation of a Transponder-Based DWDM System 159

5.3 Network Design Evolutions 160

5.3.1 Long-Haul Application Scope 161

5.3.2 Metro Access/Metro Core Application Scope 164

5.4 CWDM 170

6 SONET and SDH 175

6.2 SONET/SDH Interleaving 179

6.3 Detail of the Transport Overhead 182

6.3.1 Payload Pointer Processing 185

6.3.2 Payload Overhead 193

6.4 Concatenated Payloads 195

6.5 Mapping of SONET/SDH Payloads 196

6.5.1 Virtual Tributaries 197

6.5.2 Support of DS-3 Signals 207

6.5.3 Support of ATM, POS, and GFP 208

6.6 Automatic Protection Switching 208

Appendix 6A SDH 216

7 Next Generation SONET, GFP, and Ethernet over SONET 221

7.1.2 Transparent GFP Description 223

7.1.3 Potential Extensions to Transparent GFP 232

7.2.2 Virtual Concatenation 236

7.2.3 GFP for Ethernet Applications 238

7.2.4 What New Services Are Enabled? 240

7.2.5 What Products Use These Techniques? 241

8 Wireless Technologies: WPAN, WLAN, and WWAN 245

8.2 Standards 251

8.2.2 IEEE 802.11 Family of Wireless Standards 251

8.2.3 WWAN Standardization Activities 259

8.3 Technology Basics 291

8.3.1 WLAN Technologies 291

8.3.2 Security Considerations for WLANs 297

8.3.3 IEEE 802.11a Details 301

8.3.4 WPAN Technologies 305

8.3.5 WMAN Technologies 311

8.3.6 WWAN Technologies: 2.5G and 3G 328

9 WAN Data Services and Technologies: FR, ATM, and MPLS 339

9.1 Recent Advances in FR 339

9.1.3 Key FRF Implementation Agreements 355

9.1.4 CIR Considerations 363

9.1.5 Service Level Metrics 368

9.1.6 Other Services, Capabilities, and Features 371

9.1.7 European Outlook 380

9.2 Recent Advances in ATM 381

9.2.2 Applications 385

9.2.4 ATM Standardization 396

9.2.5 Interworking 396

9.3 MPLS Technology 411

9.3.3 MPLS Architecture Overview 421

9.3.4 MPLS Basics 423

9.3.5 Some Applications of MPLS 446

9.3.6 Label Hop-by-Hop Distribution Procedures 456

9.3.7 Security Considerations 464

9.3.8 Encoding the Label Stack Introduction 464

9.3.9 The Label Stack 464

9.3.10 Fragmentation and Path MTU Discovery 469

9.3.11 Transporting Labeled Packets over PPP 474

9.3.12 Transporting Labeled Packets over LAN Media 475

9.3.13 IANA Considerations 475

9.3.14 Security Considerations 476

9.3.15 FR and MPLS 476

10 Moving Beyond T1: Multilink FR and Other Approaches 483

10.1 Motivations and Scope 485

10.2 MFR 488

10.3 Comparing Alternatives 491

10.3.1 IMA 491

10.3.2 MLPPP 492

11 Broadband LAN Technologies: GbE and 10GbE 497

11.1 LAN Introduction 497

11.1.1 Standards 497

11.1.3 MAC Frame Format 506

11.1.4 CSMA/CD MAC Method 514

11.1.5 Allowable Implementations 516

11.2 Gigabit Ethernet/IEEE 802.3z 518

11.2.1 Motivations and Goals 518

11.2.2 Compatibility with IEEE Standard 802.3 521

11.2.3 GbE Standard Details 523

11.2.4 PMD Sublayer and Baseband Medium, Type 1000BASE-LX (Long-Wavelength Laser) and 1000BASE-SX (Short-Wavelength Laser) 530

11.2.5 PMD Sublayer and Baseband Medium, Type 1000BASE-CX (Short-Haul Copper) 535

11.2.6 PCS, PMA Sublayer, and Baseband Medium, Type 1000BASE-T 536

11.2.7 Network Diameter 539

11.3 10GbE 539

11.3.3 Applications 551

11.3.4 WIS, Type 10GBASE-W 554

11.3.5 PMD Sublayers 567

11.3.6 Other Work, Copper PMD 570

11.3.7 ANSI 10GFC 572

11.3.8 ESCON/FICON 577

11.3.9 10-Gigabit Ethernet Alliance 578

12 Transparent LAN Services 581

12.1 Architectures 583

12.1.1 TLS Delivery over SONET-Based Private Lines 583

12.1.2 TLS Delivery with 10GbE 588

12.1.3 TLS Delivery via MPLS 588

12.2 MPLS-Based Transparent LAN Services 591

12.2.3 VPLS Solution Using GRE-Based IP Tunnels 613

12.2.4 Architectural Alternatives 616

12.2.5 Commonalities and Differences Between Decoupled and Hierarchical Architectures 636

13 Digital Video and Multimedia Technologies and Applications 643

13.1.1 Technical Essentials 654

13.1.2 Corporate Applications and QoS Support 660

13.2 ITU-T H.320/H.323 674

13.2.1 H.320 675

13.2.2 H.323 676

13.2.3 H.324 689

13.2.4 SIP 690

13.2.5 H.310 691

13.3 Basic Compression Concepts and the MPEG Family 694

13.3.1 Digital Video Compression Overview 694

13.3.2 JPEG and Motion JPEG 710

13.3.3 MPEG-1 711

13.3.4 MPEG-2 714

13.3.5 MPEG-4 718

13.3.6 MPEG-7 726

13.3.7 MPEG-21 739.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1580535283

OCLC:

52357728