Passive Optical Networks: Principles and Practice

by Cedric F. Lam

Overview

Passive optical network (PON) technologies have become an important broadband access technology as a result of the growing demand for bandwidth-hungry video-on-demand applications. Written by the leading researchers and industry experts in the field, Passive Optical Networks provides coherent coverage of networking technologies, fiber optic transmission technologies, as well as the electronics involved in PON system development.

Features:

• An in-depth overview of PON technologies and the potential applications that they enable
• Comprehensive review of all major PON standards and architecture evolutions, as well as their pros and cons
• Balanced coverage of recent research findings with economic and engineering considerations
• Presents system issues of protocols, performance, management and protection
• Extensive references to standards and research materials for further studies

This book provides an authoritative overview of PON technologies and system requirements and is ideal for engineers and managers in industry, university researchers, and graduate students.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780123738530
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	10/16/2007
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Cedric Lam was co-founder of Google Fiber which changed the landscape of broadband access networks in North America with the introduction of nationwide Gigabit FTTH networks. Cedric has experience both in product development and in engineering service provider networks. He started his career with AT&T and later joined Opvista, a startup company building high-capacity optical transport equipment, as chief system architect. After Opvista, he joined Google to work on datacenter networks before embarking the effort on Google Fiber, where he was Engineering Director, leading the Architecture and Device Engineering team. He is now Principal Engineer in Google’s Technical Infrastructure team, leading the development of datacenter network architectures and the development of network generation optical interconnects for datacenter networks. Cedric is a member of the CORD Technical Steering Team, and Fellow of Optica. He also edited the first textbook in PON: Passive Optical Networks, Principles and Practice, Academic Press, 2007.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: PON Architectures Review
Chapter 3: Optical Technologies in Passive Optical Access Networks
Chapter 4: Transceivers for Passive Optical Networks
Chapter 5: Ranging and Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation
Chapter 6: Protection Architectures for Passive Optical Networks
Chapter 7: Optical Characterization, Diagnosis and Performance Monitoring for PON
Appendix I: G-PON PMD Characteristics
Appendix II: EPON MPCPDU Formats

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A complete reference on all the standards and technologies of Passive Optical Networks - a technology key to bringing future broadband applications to the home.