Optical switching and networking handbook

Before you begin to read this book, please take a moment to read these introductory comments. The title of the book may be misleading for many people: For the engineering person, this may sound like the bible of optical networks and switching systems. Not so! This is not an engineering book and will not dig into the gory details of bits and bytes, ohms and lamdas, and so on. It will help an engineering person to understand the marketplace for the products and services that will be designed. It will also show you the application that the optical networks will satisfy.As I said, however, this is not a technical book. Read it for what it is worth. If you want the gory details, other books can meet that need. I would suggest that you log onto McGraw-Hill’s Web site to find the many choices available.