Broadband Optical Access Networks - by Leonid G Kazovsky & Ning Cheng & Wei-Tao Shaw & David Gutierrez & Shing-Wa Wong Hardcover

About the Book

"Broadband optical access network is an ideal solution to alleviate the first/last mile bottleneck of current Internet infrastructures. Richly illustrated throughout to help clarify important topics, Broadband Optical Access Networks covers the architectures, protocols enabling technologies of broadband optical access networks, and all current and future competing technologies for access networks. This comprehensive work presents the evolution of optical access networks, including reach extension, bandwidth enhancement, and discusses the convergence of optical and wireless technologies for broadband access, making it an invaluable reference for researchers, electrical engineers, and graduate students"--

Book Synopsis

Broadband optical access network is an ideal solution to alleviate the first/last mile bottleneck of current Internet infrastructures. Richly illustrated throughout to help clarify important topics, Broadband Optical Access Networks covers the architectures, protocols enabling technologies of broadband optical access networks, and all current and future competing technologies for access networks. This comprehensive work presents the evolution of optical access networks, including reach extension, bandwidth enhancement, and discusses the convergence of optical and wireless technologies for broadband access, making it an invaluable reference for researchers, electrical engineers, and graduate students.

From the Back Cover

An invaluable reference to all aspects of current and next-generation broadband optical access networks

Service providers across the globe are responding to copper wire bandwidth limits in an effort to alleviate the so-called first/last mile bottleneck of Internet infrastructures. This comprehensive work covers the architectures and the enabling technologies of broadband optical access networks and outlines all current and future competing technologies. Rich illustrations clarify important topics as the book explores both current passive optical network standards and next-generation broadband optical access networks.

This text presents the evolution of optical access networks--including reach extension, bandwidth enhancement, and service overlay--and discusses the convergence of optical and wireless technologies for broadband access. It explains different design approaches to broadband optical access networks--outlining the economical and technological boundaries--and discusses new national network initiatives, particularly with respect to access networks. The book investigates hybrid optical and wireless networks for key technologies, integrated routing algorithms, and traffic engineering.

Broadband Optical Access Networks is an invaluable reference for upper-level undergraduate students and graduate students studying telecommunications, optical networking, photonics, wireless communications, and/or networking/computer science. It is also an optimal text for researchers, electrical engineers, and managers in the telecommunications industry.

About the Author

Leonid G. Kazovsky, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA). He is the founder and director of the Photonic and Networking Research Laboratory and is recognized for his outstanding research contributions to coherent optical communications and optical access networks.

Ning Cheng, PhD, is a senior engineer at a major technology company as well as the author of more than sixty technical papers in electrical engineering. He served as a postdoctoral research fellow at Stanford University.

Wei-Tao Shaw, PhD, is currently a member of the technical staff at Infinera Inc. During his time at Stanford University, he worked in the Photonics and Networking Research Lab where he focused on optical access networks and subsystems, and hybrid optical and wireless access networks.

David Gutierrez, PhD, currently advises the Colombian Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications. While at Stanford University, his research focused on next-generation access networks. His work has been published in many scientific journals and conference proceedings.

Shing-Wa Wong, PhD, graduated with a degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University. He has published more than twenty-five IEEE journal and conference publications and obtained three patents in next-generation broadband networks.