Sonet and T1: Architectures for Digital Transport Networks (2nd Edition) [Hardcover]

Uyless Black (Author), Sharleen Waters (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0130654167 | ISBN-13: 978-0130654168 | Publication Date: December 26, 2001 | Edition: 2

SONET is the flexible, highly interoperable transport technology at the heart of today's high-speed optical networks. SONET: Architecture for Digital Transport Networks, Second Edition covers every facet of SONET technology, including the new IP-over-SONET "optical Internet," SONET's relationship to WDM, and other key innovations. The authors begin with an overview of SONET's goals and architecture; then present the most detailed coverage of SONET operations, administration, and management available in any book. They reflect important changes to SONET technology and standards, including changes to network management, and new applications. This edition shows SONET at work in both MANs and long-haul networks. It also includes a new chapter on SDH, the European SONET standard, and interworking between SONET and SDH networks.

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From the Back Cover

• The definitive SONET guide, fully updated for the latest technologies and standards
• In-depth coverage of SONET operations, administration, and management
• New coverage: IP-over-SONET optical Internets, WDM integration, MPLS, and much more
• All new chapter on SDH and SONET/SDH interworking

The professional's guide to SONET—completely updated for the latest innovations!

SONET is the transport technology at the heart of virtually every high-speed optical network. SONET and T1: Architecture for Digital Transport Networks, Second Edition gives communications engineers and other professionals an in-depth understanding of every facet of SONET technology-including breakthrough IP-over-SONET optical Internets, new techniques for integrating SONET with WDM fiber, and other key innovations.

The authors begin with an overview of SONET's goals and architecture, then present the most detailed coverage of SONET operations, administration, and management available in any book. SONET and T1: Architecture for Digital Transport Networks, Second Edition offers detailed information on the "hows" and "whys" of deploying and managing any SONET system, from architecture through maintenance, using real-life applications drawn from diverse carrier and business environments. This second edition's new coverage includes:

• New deployment examples for metropolitan and long-haul networks
• New passive optical applications
• New SONET network management solutions
• New coverage of SDH, the European SONET standard, and SONET/SDH interworking
• New techniques for expanding network capacity with WDM
• IP-over-SONET: advantages, risks, and issues
• SONET and MPLS

From day-to-day administration to long-term planning, SONET and T1: Architecture for Digital Transport Networks, Second Edition is your richest, most up-to-date SONET resource.

About the Author

UYLESS BLACK is a widely respected telecommunications consultant and lecturer with extensive operations and implementation experience in both public and private networks. His clients include Nortel, British Telecom, and major carriers throughout the U.S. His recent books include Voice Over IP, Second Edition; IP Routing Protocols; and MPLS and Label Switching Networks.

SHARLEEN WATERS has served for fifteen years as GTE Senior Technical Instructor in Broadband Technologies, training clients such as AT&T, Nortel, Siemens, Alcatel, NEC, and Fujitsu in installing, testing, and maintaining SONET equipment.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 375 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR; 2 edition (December 26, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130654167
• ISBN-13: 978-0130654168
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,355,739 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A favorite for the technically adept person new to telecom., February 29, 2000

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This review is from: Sonet & T1: Architectures for Digital Transport Networks (Hardcover)

This is the best book I have found for a detailed over-view of how the entire telecommunications system is hung together, including how all the legacy, current, and dis-similar systems are pieced together to make today's global telecom network. Further, author Waters is a professional teacher, and it shows in her clear understandable writing. I am a chip designer, had been assigned to a telecom chip project, and found that many of the more technical texts start in the middle, are far less broad, and may assume that the reader is an old-school telecom insider. Yet many an experienced telecom technician could learn something from this book. Telecom has a long legacy of first rate engineering, and I can recommend this book to anyone looking to come up to speed. This is not a circuits book; there is no circuit theory and no transistor-level schematics, but there are a large number of diagrams detailing the structure of how the black boxes are connected together, and the structure of the data, the data formating of SONET and many of the older standards. Yes, there are typos, and there are missing subjects, but this book was the most popular introductory telecom book at my work site and in my pervue.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Some good information, but very sloppily written., June 3, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Sonet & T1: Architectures for Digital Transport Networks (Hardcover)

It is hard to find much of the information contained in this book in similar (textbook) formats. However, Professor Black is clearly not paying attention to the quality of the material he is attaching his name too. The bottom line is you CAN learn alot from this book, but with a modicum more effort on the part of the authors, it could have really been a very good book. Best part is the treatment of T1 and the SONET frame format. The worst part is the fact that it is 50% filler. Also, I did not mind the abundance of typos - they were so obvious that they didn't detract too much from the learning process.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars plagued with typos, March 5, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Sonet & T1: Architectures for Digital Transport Networks (Hardcover)

I cannot judge the content of the book, as i am a SONET novice. However, the preponderance of mislabeled diagrams and typos is certainly not helping the educational process.