The essential guide to the state of the art in WDM and its vast networking potential
As a result of its huge transmission capacity and countless other advantages, fiber optics has fostered a bandwidth revolution, addressing the constantly growing demand for increased bandwidth. Within this burgeoning area, Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) has emerged as a breakthrough technology for exploiting the capacity of optical fibers. Today, WDM is deployed by many network providers for point-to-point transmission–but there is strong momentum to develop it as a full-fledged networking technology in its own right. The telecommunications industry, network service providers, and research communities worldwide are paying close attention.
When Congress passed the 1996 Telecommunications Act, legislators anticipated that the reduced regulatory barriers would lead to increased competition among U.S. telecommunications providers, and, in turn, the new competition would drive innovation and reap economic benefits for both American consumers and telecommunications providers. But the legislation had a markedly different impact. While many of the more aggressive providers enjoyed sharp short-term rises in stock market values, they soon faced sudden collapse, leaving consumers with little or no long-term benefit.
This book will demonstrate the applicability of grid technologies to industry. To this end, it gives a detailed insight on how ontology technology can be used to manage dispersed information assets more efficiently. The book is based on experiences from the COG (Corporate Ontology Grid) project, carried out jointly by three leading industrial players and the Digital Enterprise Research Institute Austria. Through comparisons of this project with alternative technologies and projects, it provides hands-on experience and best practice examples to act as a reference guide for their development.
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…appears to be the first book length study of what has happened over the past five years to the once vaunted telecommunications and information business…a well-written picture of the sad decline of a once vibrant sector. Important reading with lessons for the future-especially concerning that old human failing, plain greed. ”
—Communications Booknotes Quarterly, Spring 2005
“In The Great Telecom Meltdown, author and telecommunications expert Fred R. Goldstein offers an informed and informative analysis on just what went wrong with the telecom industry when the telecom stock market bubble burst. Moreover, Goldstein offers invaluable and practical advice for keeping this economic disaster from reoccuring, and even how to profit from such an event in the future.”
—The Midwest Book Review, May 2005
With the increasing necessity of today’s use of telecommunications technologies, businesses need to manage their telecommunications effectively to derive the benefits—to do this, it requires the use of skilled managers. This book provides readers with a well-balanced mix of material to develop both strong business management and technology management skills necessary to become successful telecommunications managers. The text illustrates this by using business management tools and techniques to manage a company’s telecommunications function, thereby maximizing benefits and minimizing associated costs.
This book takes a “real world” approach to the issues that it covers. The discussions within this book are rooted in actual designs and real development, not theory or pure engineering papers. It recognises and demonstrates the importance of taking a multi-vendor approach, as existing network infrastructure is rarely homogenous and its focus is upon developing existing IP networks rather than creating them from scratch.
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