With cheaper bandwidth and greater robustness, optical networking components are looking increasingly tempting--perhaps even mandatory for maintaining your network's competitive edge. Here's how you get there from here, without being overwhelmed by optical science.

Optical technologies' advantages over copper have caught your attention. Now you're one of the many network professionals--enterprise and service provider alike--looking to answer that key question, "What's the impact on my network?" Optical Networking Components provides the help you need as you rethink system changes and update...

This volume offers the reader advice on how to achieve new generation features with enhanced SONET and multi-lambda rings, compares SONET features and services with rival Ethernet-based offerings, and offers design approaches and business models for real-world deployment.

Get mobility, speed, simplicity and lower cost of ownership from wireless LANs

Find out about the new standards, products, and broadband options that make wireless networks as fast and reliable as wired ones. You'll learn what they're good at, how to operate them, and what to buy in "Deploying Wireless LANs. Gil Held, the author of over 20 top-selling jargon-free tech guides, clearly and thoroughly explains how to plan and build wireless LANs capable of supporting mobile devices and applications. You don't even need a background in radio frequency engineering to understand:

How to make...