The emerging core and metropolitan networks: general characteristics of transport networks, future networks challenges, new transport networks architectures, transport networks economics -- Advances in control and management for transport networks: drivers towards more uniform management and control networks, control plane as main enabler to autonomic network integration, multilayer interactions and network models, evolution of connection services and special cases of optical networks -- Elements from telecommunications engineering: digital optical communication systems, performance estimation -- Enabling technologies: transmitters, receiver, optical fiber, optical amplifiers, optical filters and multiplexers -- Assessing physical layer degradations: optical power budgets, system bandwidth, comments on budgets for nonlinear effects and optical transients, semianalytical models for penalties, translucent or hybrid networks -- Combating physical layer degradations: dispersion-compensating components and methods for CD and PMD, modulation formats, electronic equalization of optical transmission impairments, FEC in lightwave systems

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