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The authors have captured what is going on and what is going to be going on in this field in a completely up-to-date treatment unavailable elsewhere. I learned a lot from reading it expect that you will too. From the Foreword by Paul E. Green, Research Fellow, Tellabs, Inc. The tremendous growth of bandwidth-intensive services such as the World Wide Web demonstrates the increase in performance that applications will demand from future networks. To meet this demand, optical networks are being deployed and are emerging as the next generation of high-capacity, multi-protocol networks. Engineers in communications and fiber optics, networking professionals, and graduate students in networking courses will benefit from this book's unique coverage of the systems aspect of optical networks. Features: Provides a thorough presentation of the physical, architectural, and algorithmic issues of optimal network systems Covers both wavelength-division multiplexed (WDM) and time-division multiplexed (TDM) networks as well as SONET Provides an in-depth treatment of the design of advanced optical fiber transmission systems Discusses management and control of optical networks br

Rajiv Ramaswami is vice president for System Architecture at Xros, a division of Nortel Networks. Rajiv has worked on optical networks for over a decade, from early research to product development, including stints at Tellabs and IBM Research. He is an IEEE Fellow and a recipient of the IEEE W.R.G. Baker and W.R. Bennett prize paper awards and an Outstanding Innovation award from IBM. Rajiv received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California at Berkeley. Kumar N. Sivarajan is cofounder and chief technology officer at Tejas Networks, an optical networking startup in Bangalore, India. Kumar has worked on optical, wireless, ATM, and Internet networking technologies for over a decade, first at IBM Research and then at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, before co-founding Tejas Networks in May 2000. He is a recipient of the IEEE W.R.G. Baker and W.R. Bennett prize paper awards. Kumar received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology.