Find out everything you need to know about how current networks will have to evolve to provide for future broadband services In this book, the authors provide an overview of the status, challenges, architectures, and technological solutions for core and metropolitan networks. Furthermore, the book describes the current state of core and metropolitan telecommunication networks, as well as the drivers and motives behind the current paradigm shift in the telecommunications industry. Moreover, the authors elaborate system design guidelines for both point-to-point and multi-hop optical networks taking into consideration the analogue nature of the transmission channel. Key Features: Provides coverage of all aspects of core and metro networks supporting future broadband services, and a detailed description of the state-of-the-art Presents a clear path for migrating from point-to-point to   data-centric, dynamic,  multi-hop optical networks Shows how current systems will need to evolve over the coming years, summarizing challenges and issues to be investigated in future research Covers a wide range of topics from network architectures, to control plane, to key optical and optoelectronic devices, and best practice in transmission and system design Provides results, best practices and guidelines for various technical problems, including numerous hands-on examples Written by authors from cutting-edge companies such as Alcatel-Lucent, Siemens, Lucent, France Telecom, BT, and Telefonica Optical Core and Metro Networks will be of interest to researchers in industry and academia, and advanced (final year undergraduate) and postgraduate students undertaking communications, networking and optics courses.

Table of Contents:
Preface 1 The Emerging Core and Metropolitan Networks Andrea Di Giglio, Angel Ferreiro and Marco Schiano 1.1 Introduction 1.2 General Characteristics of Transport Network 1.3 Future Networks Challenges 1.4 New Transport Networks Architectures 1.5 Transport Networks Economics Acronyms References 2 The Advances in Control and Management for Transport Networks Dominique Verchere and Bela Berde 2.1 Drivers Towards More Uniform Management and Control Networks 2.2 Control Plane as Main Enabler to Autonomic Network Integration 2.3 Multilayer Interactions and Network Models 2.4 Evolution of Connection Services and Special Cases of Optical Networks 2.5 Conclusion References 3 Elements from Telecommunications Engineering Chris Matrakidis, John Mitchell and Benn Thomsen 3.1 Digital Optical Communication Systems 3.2 Performance Estimation References 4 Enabling Technologies Stefano Santoni, Roberto Cigliutti, Massimo Giltrelli, Pasquale Donadio, Chris Matrakidis, Andrea Paparella, Tanya Politi, Marcello Potenza, Erwan Pincemin and Alexandros Stavdas 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Transmitters 4.3 Receiver 4.4 The Optical Fiber 4.5 Optical Amplifiers 4.6 Optical Filters and Multiplexers References 5 Assessing Physical Layer Degradations Andrew Lord, Marcello Potenza, Marco Forzati and Erwan Pincemin 5.1 Introduction and Scope 5.2 Optical Power Budgets, Part I 5.3 System Bandwidth 5.4 Comments on Budgets for Nonlinear Effects and Optical Transients 5.5 Semianalytical Models for Penalties 5.6 Translucent or Hybrid Networks 5.7 Appendix References 6 Combating Physical Layer Degradations Herbert Haunstein, Harald Rohde, Marco Forzati, Erwan Pincemin, Jonas Martensson, Anders Djupsj€obacka and Tanya Politi 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Dispersion-Compensating Components and Methods for CD and PMD 6.3 Modulation Formats 6.4 Electronic Equalization of Optical Transmission Impairments 6.5 FEC in Lightwave Systems 6.6 Appendix: Experimental Configuration and Measurement Procedure for Evaluation and Comparison for Different Modulation Formats for 40 Gbit/s Transmission Acknowledgments References Dictionary of Optical Networking Didier Colle, Chris Matrakidis and Josep Sol_e-Pareta Acronyms Index