A guide to Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) architecture, deployment, equipment and services. This edition offers expanded coverage of SDH, SONET equipment and providers, OAM&P, and more. It also contains new coverage of virtual tributaries, and ring configuration and protection.
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The best guide to SONET/SDH available!
Take advantage of the speed, scalability, and manageability of fiber optics with this definitive and comprehensive guide to SONET/SDH technology. Packed with real-world examples of SONET/SDH implementations, this resource details all you need to know about frame and overhead architecture, payloads, deployment, and equipment. Written by SONET/SDH and telecommunications expert Walter J. Goralski, this book completely explains the technology behind SONET/SDH like no other, and provides you with proven techniques for achieving greater bandwidth.
- Understand how optical fiber networks operate
- Trace the evolution of SONET/SDH and current high-speed optical networks
- Find out about the different classes of SONET/SDH equipment
- Discover the advantages of SONET and SDH ring architectures
- Learn DWDM techniques, including transmission, cross-connecting, switching, and more
- Become familiar with synchronous digital hierarchies both in North America and globally
- Use SONET/SDH to connect routers for data applications (IP over SONET)
Important topics include:
- Fiber optics overview
- Integrated SDH coverage
- WDM and DWDM
- Architecture and protocols
- Basic and advanced overhead and payload pointers
- Network equipment
- Customer and carrier advantages
- SONET/SDH rings
About the Author
Walter Goralski (Hopkins, MN) has more than 30 years of experience in the data communications field, including 14 years with AT&T. He is currently a Senior Course Developer and instructor at Juniper Networks[registered]. Walter has spent 15 years as an Adjunct Professor at Pace University Graduate School, where he designed and deployed their graduate program in telecommunications. Walter is a longstanding member of the IEEE, has written articles in numerous industry publications, and is the best-selling author of SONET, Second Edition and several other books on ADSL, VoIP, ATM and frame relay.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
SONET is great,
By A Customer
This review is from: Sonet (Paperback)
I came across this book through a friend. I found it very comprehensive and easy to understand. This is a great reference book to learn about SONET/SDH the TDM, ATM.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Response to gary Kessler,
By mstauf "Optical guy" (New York) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sonet/SDH Third Edition (Paperback)
This is a response to Mr. Kessler's review. First, he needs to state that he has a biased interest in his review, that he used to work with Walter at Hill & Associates before he went to work for Juniper. Second, I was the reviewer for the first edition of the book and Walter had a lot of misconceptions about SONET in the original draft. So much so that my name is menitioned in the acknoweldgements in the first edition. Since I worked as a manager dealing with SONET at both AT&T as well as Cisco Systems,the book leaves a lot to be desired. He is very verbose in his writing style and has never worked in the field to give the reader a real understanding of the issues that come with understanding SONET - both services and equipment. There are other books in the field that do a better job - Andy Reid is a good one from the technical side for example - but this author needs to change his writing style and tone it down for this book to be considered for readership seriously.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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An excellent overview of all aspects of SONET...,
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Despite the scathing review from the person from Newport, CA above, Goralski's book is an excellent in-depth overview of all aspects of SONET. Yes, the book is long -- and there's not much filler in sight. Goralski covers this subject well, providing breadth and depth of coverage, and he's a good writer to boot. Not only does he describe the protocols, but also the equipment, historical background (great context settings), and likely future of this technology.I really feel the need to correct the impression left by some of the reviewer's above who, in my opinion, clearly need this book. One says that Goralski is wrong referencing the "U" (unidirectional) in UPSR as transmission; instead, U refers to switching. Huh? That's just wrong; read the standard (and just about other document written about SONET). (As an aside, this reviewer has reversed the specifications -- GR-1230 is BLSR and GR-1400 is UPSR.) Another reviewer makes a big deal about what pg. 223 says about the transport of the DS-1 framing bit in a VT1.5 mapping. What the book says is that the "The DS-1 framing bit is not transported through the SONET portion of the DS-1 link..." It goes on to say that "The asynchronous mapping does not carry the DS-1 framing bit in the overhead. The framing bit is included in the VT1.5 bit stream..." I quote these errors only because I think that the reviewers' misunderstandings should not stop people from buying an excellent reference text.
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holdover operation, flying storage, trunking network, direct cell mapping, framing octets, payload visibility, terabit links, fault escalation, trace identifier mismatch, nodal processing delay, network element view, asynchronous mapping, pointer octets, clock traceable, columns payload, unprotected traffic, growth byte, loop diversity, pointer justification, signal label, overhead bytes, pointer adjustments, concatenation indicator, virtual tributaries, stuff byte Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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United States, Nortel Networks, North America, Gigabit Ethernet, Token Ring, Bell System, Mbps Ethernet, New York, Information Payload, Lucent Technologies, International Telecommunication Union, Section Layer, Switch Request, Alcatel Network Systems, Bell Labs, Data Com Data Com Data Com, Network Layer, Administrative Unit, Integrated Service Platform, Library of Congress, Long Lines, Northern Electric, Bell Atlantic, Bell Laboratories, Electronic Industries Association New!
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- Understanding Optical Communications by Harry Dutton in Front Matter
- Digital Network Synchronization Plan by Bellcore in Back Matter
- A Visit to the United Kingdom by Rachael Bell on page 514
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