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Summary: Putting everything together.
Review: "This book provides a great overview of ATM & SONET technology. The Optical Networks/Fiber Optics industry is notorious for acronyms, fuzzy definitions, and confusing uses of the same words to mean different things (e.g., is SONET a physical transport mechanism, a standard, a switch, or a poem? (sorry, couldn't help myself)). Dobrowski provides a clear description of two critical components of today's networks- ATM and SONET, explains them individually and how they work together. Great reading for understanding the basis of much of today's broadband optical networks!
Rating:
Summary: Putting everything together.
Review: "This book provides a great overview of ATM & SONET technology. The Optical Networks/Fiber Optics industry is notorious for acronyms, fuzzy definitions, and confusing uses of the same words to mean different things (e.g., is SONET a physical transport mechanism, a standard, a switch, or a poem? (sorry, couldn't help myself)). Dobrowski provides a clear description of two critical components of today's networks- ATM and SONET, explains them individually and how they work together. Great reading for understanding the basis of much of today's broadband optical networks!
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Summary: A nice book for poeple who need to refresh their memory
Review: Actually this is a nice book of ATM and SONET/SDH. Part 1 starts with today's world telecommunication industry and markets and introductions to ATM. This book continues to the principles of ATM and more technical discussion. On part 2, this book starts with SONET introductions and more technical discussion. At last on part 3, the authors tried to explain how ATM and SONET working together as part of high-speed network. I think the authors' objective was to seperate the ATM and SONET discussion in different parts and then combine them to present the real application.
From this book, I think the authors had a deep knowledge and understanding of both ATM and SONET technology, and how to make them working together. Unfortunately, the authors assumed that the reader already know some knowledge of ATM and SONET. I think this book is nice and perfect for poeple who need to refresh their memory about both technology. If you have little or no knowledge about ATM and SONET, I suggest that you find other books.
Don't get me wrong. I myself found this book nice and perfect. I personally recommend this book to working-knowledge ATM and SONET poeple (but not to beginners). From the book dimension, I think it is obvious why there is no deeper discussion of every topic. Therefore, this book might not suitable for poeple who have little or no knowledge of ATM and SONET.
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Summary: Great overview of ATM.
Review: This is a good book for someone entering the telephone industry. I needed to know the basics of how ATM worked and what systems it worked with. As a result of reading this book I finally understand PVCs, SVCs, ATM routing tables and why ATM is such a hot topic. I highly recommend this book.
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