Optical networking

Active IETF WORKING GROUPS

OTHER STANDARDS

BIG VENDORS

Cisco  products
Lucent  products
Nortel  products

OTHER PRODUCTS

CONFERENCES & PROMOTION 

Optical Net WEB COLLECTIONS
Network World Optical

COURSES AND TUTORIALS

BOOKS, ARTICLES, AND MAGAZINES

Some excellent Fiber Optic Learning Web Sites
	FOS in September 02 Network Magazine (http://www.networkmagazine.com/article/NMG20020826S0003) Contributed by Tim RUTHERFORD on 10/10/02.
	Fiber Optic LAN Section of the TIA (Telecommunications Industry Association) (http://www.fols.org/)
	Lightreading (http://www.lightreading.com/)
	How Stuff Works (http://www.howstuffworks.com/)
	IEC Tutorial on Fiber Technology (http://www.iec.org/online/tutorials/fiber_optic/index.html)
	Network World Optical Site (http://www.nwfusion.com/edge/topics/optical.html) Can look at all pages, not just service provider pages, and can subscribe to an optical newsletter.
	SONET versus DWDM (http://www.commweb.com/article/COM20020514S0003)
	Corning movie on fiber manufacturing (http://www.corning.com/discovery_center/)
	Optical transmission tutorial (http://www.networkmagazine.com/article/NMG20010619S0003)
	Corning optical fiber products and services (http://www.corning.com/products__services/)
	Lucent Technologies TrueWave fiber (http://www.bell-labs.com/news/1998/june/11/1.html)

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