Optical communication networks have played and will continue to play a prominent role in the development and deployment of communication network infrastructures

Optical communication networks have played and will continue to play a prominent role in the development and deployment of communication network infrastructures

Optical networks have moved from laboratory settings and theoretical research to real-world deployment and service-oriented explorations. New technologies such

The new information services provided worldwide through the Internet are fostering the upgrade of existing access and transmission plants, and the de ployment o

With the rapid growth of bandwidth demand from network users and the advances in optical technologies, optical networks with multiterabits per-second capacity h