Tutorial 1: Optical Networking: Recent Developments, Issues, and Trends

Abstract

The year 2002 has brought a turn around in the optical networking. Several technologies that were hot until last year are no longer so. Beginning with networking trends and recent DWDM records, a sample of recent optical networking products and applications will be presented. Key technological developments that made optical networking a hot topic will be explained. Upcoming optical technologies will also be briefly described. The role of 10 Gigabit Ethernet standard in unifying the local and wide area networks will be presented.