This book provides coverage of survivability and traffic grooming; two key issues in modern optical networks.

Covers these key topics: Shared-mesh protection for optical WDM networks. Survivable traffic grooming for hierarchical optical WDM networks. Survivable data ove

Research and development on optical wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) networks have matured considerably. While optics and electronics should be used appro

In recent years, with the rapid growth of the Internet, the bandwidth demand for data traffic is exploding. Optical networks based on wavelength-division multip

Provides a comprehensive and updated account of WDM optical network systems Optical networking has advanced considerably since 2010. A host of new technologies