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Sonet and T1: Architectures for Digital Transport Networks, 2nd Edition
- By Uyless N. Black, Sharleen Waters
- Published Dec 26, 2001 by Prentice Hall.
- Copyright 2002
- Dimensions: K
- Pages: 384
- Edition: 2nd
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-13-065416-7
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-065416-8
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Product Author Bios
UYLESS BLACK is a widely respected telecommunications consultant and lecturer with extensive operations and implementation experience in both public and private networks. His clients include Nortel, British Telecom, and major carriers throughout the U.S. His recent books include Voice Over IP, Second Edition; IP Routing Protocols; and MPLS and Label Switching Networks.
SHARLEEN WATERS has served for fifteen years as GTE Senior Technical Instructor in Broadband Technologies, training clients such as AT&T, Nortel, Siemens, Alcatel, NEC, and Fujitsu in installing, testing, and maintaining SONET equipment.
- The definitive SONET guide, fully updated for the latest technologies and standards
- In-depth coverage of SONET operations, administration, and management
- New coverage: IP-over-SONET optical Internets, WDM integration, MPLS, and much more
- All new chapter on SDH and SONET/SDH interworking
The professional's guide to SONET—completely updated for the latest innovations!
SONET is the transport technology at the heart of virtually every high-speed optical network. SONET and T1: Architecture for Digital Transport Networks, Second Edition gives communications engineers and other professionals an in-depth understanding of every facet of SONET technology-including breakthrough IP-over-SONET optical Internets, new techniques for integrating SONET with WDM fiber, and other key innovations.
The authors begin with an overview of SONET's goals and architecture, then present the most detailed coverage of SONET operations, administration, and management available in any book. SONET and T1: Architecture for Digital Transport Networks, Second Edition offers detailed information on the "hows" and "whys" of deploying and managing any SONET system, from architecture through maintenance, using real-life applications drawn from diverse carrier and business environments. This second edition's new coverage includes:
- New deployment examples for metropolitan and long-haul networks
- New passive optical applications
- New SONET network management solutions
- New coverage of SDH, the European SONET standard, and SONET/SDH interworking
- New techniques for expanding network capacity with WDM
- IP-over-SONET: advantages, risks, and issues
- SONET and MPLS
From day-to-day administration to long-term planning, SONET and T1: Architecture for Digital Transport Networks, Second Edition is your richest, most up-to-date SONET resource.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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 
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...
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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
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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Introduction to Digital Transport Systems
Table of Contents
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Notes for the Reader.
1. Introduction.
2. Digital Transmission Carrier Systems.
3. Timing and Synchronization in Digital Networks.
4. The T1 Family.
5. SONET Operations.
6. Payload Mapping and Management.
7. Topologies and Configurations.
8. Operations, Administration, and Maintenance.
9. Manufacturers' and Vendors' Systems.
10. The Synchronous Digital Hierarchy.
11. SONET and WDM, Optical Ethernet, ATM, IP, and MPLS.
APPENDIX A. Transmission Media.
List of Terms.
References.
Acronyms.
Index.
Preface
Preface
This book is part of a series titled Advanced Communications Technologies. This particular book also has a close "companion" in this series, titled ISDN and SS7: Architectures for Digital Signaling Networks.
When we were planning this book, our initial intent was for it to be a SONET book, with little discussion of the T1 technology. However, we decided that the book should also include T1 because many of the SONET operations are centered around T1. In addition, as we surveyed the literature on T1, we were surprised to discover that the existing books on T1 did not cover several important aspects of the subject--omissions that we have corrected in this book.
Also, we have included material on some of the original T1 channel banks. To our knowledge, this material has not appeared in any text, and the information is essential to understanding how T1 is the way it is.
In setting out to write this book, we established two goals. First, we wish to complement the overall series, and avoid undue overlapping of the subject matter of the other books. Second, we wish to explain aspects of the subject matter that have not been provided in other reference books. We found that not much tutorial literature exists on synchronization and timing, on the Building Integrated Timing Supply (BITS), on SONET configuration (crafting) operations, and some other important subjects. This information is provided in this book.
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