Next Generation SONET/SDH - Kartalopoulos, Stamatios V. (The University of Oklahoma)

Since the early 1990's, the SONET/SDH standard has been very successful in high speed optical communications. It paved the way to ultra high bandwidth data transport. This work tells how, earlier, the primary objective of SONET was synchronous traffic with an expected high quality of service whereas asynchronous traffic was of secondary concern.