44759-9 Synchronous networks for optimum performance Today's high-speed network applications depend on the latest in high speed, synchronous transport technology for reliable operations. SONET and T1: Architectures for Digital Transport Networks gives you the big picture on SONET, the second-generation digital carrier system, placing it in the context of the widely used first-generation system, T1. This rich resource offers detailed information on the how's and why's of managing a SONET system. SONET and T1: Architectures for Digital Transport Networks explains how to structure and maintain a high-performance network, using real-life examples of systems currently in use in a variety of business, industrial, and institutional settings. In addition, this book shows how to use SONET to interface with a variety of local and international networks, and to minimize data loss when communicating with older systems.Key chapters explore: *The basics of digital carrier systems *Timing and synchronization in digital networks *Payload mapping and management *Topologies and configurations, including add-drop and cross-connect *Operations, administration, and maintenance of digital networks *Case studies of existing SONET systems Appendices provide valuable background material on the structure, function, and performance of fiber optics, and a review of ATM technology. Filled with practical and specific information, SONET and T1: Architectures for Digital Transport Networks provides a thorough introduction to the latest in digital network technology.
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Synchronous networks for optimum performance
Today's high-speed network applications depend on the latest in high speed, synchronous transport technology for reliable operations. SONET and T1: Architectures for Digital Transport Networks gives you the big picture on SONET, the second-generation digital carrier system, placing it in the context of the widely used first-generation system, T1.
This rich resource offers detailed information on the how's and why's of managing a SONET system. SONET and T1: Architectures for Digital Transport Networks explains how to structure and maintain a high-performance network, using real-life examples of systems currently in use in a variety of business, industrial, and institutional settings. In addition, this book shows how to use SONET to interface with a variety of local and international networks, and to minimize data loss when communicating with older systems.
Key chapters explore:
- The basics of digital carrier systems
- Timing and synchronization in digital networks
- Payload mapping and management
- Topologies and configurations, including add-drop and cross-connect
- Operations, administration, and maintenance of digital networks
- Case studies of existing SONET systems
Appendices provide valuable background material on the structure, function, and performance of fiber optics, and a review of ATM technology. Filled with practical and specific information, SONET and T1: Architectures for Digital Transport Networks provides a thorough introduction to the latest in digital network technology.
About the Author
UYLESS BLACK is a widely known and respected consultant and lecturer on computer networks and data communications. With clients throughout the world, including the local and interchange carriers in the USA, Nortel, British Telecom, and many others, he has extensive operations and implementation experience in both public and private networks.
SHARLEEN WATERS has over 30 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, the past 15 as a Senior Technical Instructor in Broadband Technologies for GTE. She trains clients such as AT&T, Nortel, Siemens, Alcatel, NEC, Telco, Fujitsu, and ADC in the installation, testing and maintenance of T1, T3, and SONET equipment. She also teaches at Golden West Junior College and Riverside Community College in southern California.
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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.,
By Michael E. Wright "professional scientist & e... (Silicon Valley, CA, USA, proud to be an American) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
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.,
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,
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.
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