Emerging Optical Network Technologies

Network Architectures.- Enabling Architectures for Next Generation Optical Networks.- Hybrid Hierarchical Optical Networks.- Advances in Passive Optical Networks (PONS).- Regional-Metro Optical Networks.- Switching.- Optical Packet Switching.- Waveband Switching: A New Frontier in Optical WDM Networks.- Optical Burst Switching: Quality of Service, Multicast, and Operation and Maintenance.- Signaling Protocols and Network Operation.- GMPLS-Based Exchange Points: Architecture and Functionality.- The GMPLS Control Plane Architecture for Optical Networks.- Operational Aspects of Mesh Networking in WDM Optical Networks.- Traffic Grooming.- Traffic Grooming in WDM Networks.- A Practical and Cost-Effective Approach to Efficient Traffic Grooming in WDM Mesh Networks.- Protection and Restoration.- A Survey of Survivability Techniques for Optical WDM Networks.- Tradeoffs and Comparison of Restoration Strategies in Optical WDM Networks.- Facilitating Service Level Agreements with Restoration Speed Requirements.- Failure Location in WDM Networks.- Testbeds.- A Multi-Layer Switched GMPLS Optical Network.- HORNET: A Packet Switched WDM Metropolitan Network.