IP over WDM (PDF)

This is the first book to focus on IP over WDM optical networks. It
not only summarizes the fundamental mechanisms and the recent
development and deployment of WDM optical networks but it also
details both the network and the software architectures needed to
implement WDM enabled optical networks designed to transport IP
traffic.

The next generation network employing IP over optical networks is
quickly emerging not only in the backbone but also in metro and
access networks. Fiber optics revolutionizes the telecom and
networking industry by offering enormous network capacity to
sustain the next generation Internet growth. IP provides the only
convergence layer in a global and ubiquitous Internet. So
integrating IP and WDM to transport IP traffic over WDM enabled
optical networks efficiently and effectively is an urgent yet
important task.

* Covers hot areas like traffic engineering, MPLS, peer-to-peer
computing, IPv6.

* Comprehensive overview of history, background and research.

* Presents all requirements for a WDM optical network (enabling
technologies, optical components, software architecture,
management, etc.).

* Performance studies and descriptions of experimental WDM optical
networks guarantee the practical approach of the book.

Technical engineers and network practitioners, designers and
analysts, network managers and technical management personnel as
well as first year graduate students or senior undergraduate
students majoring in networking and/or network control and
management will all find this indispensable.