Integrated Broadband Networks: TCP/IP, ATM, SDH/SONET, and WDM/Optics

Byeong Gi Lee · Woojune Kim

Jan 2002 · Artech House

About this ebook

This cutting-edge resource examines the four core technologies behind today's broadband networks. You get in-depth coverage of TCP/IP, ATM, SDH/SONET and WDM Networking technologies, which are being utilized to meet the demands of today's diverse service features. The book presents a framework of networking principles that forms a basis of the comparison of these technologies with respect to their relative strengths, weakness and fields of use. Moreover, you learn how the technologies differ, what they have in common, and how they interact.

About the author

Byeong Gi Lee earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Lee is a professor of electronics engineering at Seoul National University, Korea. Dr. Lee is the co-author of Broadband Telecommunications Technology, Second Edition (Artech House, 1997) and has worked for Granger Associates (DSC Communications) and AT&T Bell Laboratories. Woo-June Kim holds a Ph.D. from Seoul National University, Korea, where he received the electrical engineering school's "Distinguished Dissertation Award." Dr. Kim is a senior engineer at Samsung Electronics in Seoul Korea. Previously, he worked for Lucent Technologies.