Network infrastructure & architecture: designing high-availability networks

Unlike most networking texts, this book examines optical networking by focusing on physical transport and switching, the process and technique of building networking hardware, and discusses new technologies being deployed in the marketplace, such as Metro Wave Division Multiplexing (WDM), Resilient Packet Rings, Optical Ethernet, etc. The book will be broken down into four sections: optical transmission, networking protocols, data switching, and networking. Case studies of high-speed SERDES devices, SONET framers, Ethernet MACs, and network processors will also be included. 

Preface.

Part I: Optical Transmission.

1. Introduction to Networking.

2. Filer Optic Transmission.

3. Wavelength Division Multiplexing.

Part II: Networking Protocols.

4. Sonet.

5. TCP/IP Protocol Suite.

6. Protocol Stacks.

Part III: VLSI Chips.

7. VLSI Integrated Circuits.

8. Circuits for Optical to Electrical Conversion.

Part IV: Data Switching.

9. Physical Circuits Switching.

10. Time Division Multipleured Switching.

11. Packet and Cell Switching and Queuing.

Part V: Networking.

12. Network Elements.

13. Network Design: Efficient, Survivable Networks.

Index.

Graduate students and hardware networking professionals, marketing personnel, sales personnel, and executives.