Building the road to optical networks

British Telecommunications Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 2-12

  Hill, Goff ^a,b,c,d,e   Fernandez, Lars ^e,m,n,o   Cadeddu, Roberto ^{f,g,h,i,j,k,l}  

^a BT Group   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Optical Commun Systems Division   (United Kingdom)

^d MARTLESHAM HEATH   (United Kingdom)

^e WDM Networks ^*  (Sweden)

^f CSELT   (Italy)

^g MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^h MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

ⁱ European RACE I Programme

^j Project 2028 MWTN

^k HDWDN Optical Communication Systems

^l Optical Network Architectures Group

^m ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

ⁿ PANASONIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^o ERICSSON RADIO SYSTEMS AB   (Sweden)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CROSSCONNECT SWITCHING;

BROADBAND NETWORKS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SWITCHING SYSTEMS;

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS;

EID: 0031121309     PISSN: 0262401X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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