# Paperback: 327 pages
# Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 1 edition (October 23, 2003)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0071399143
# ISBN-13: 978-0071399142

Broadband in the Metro Area has proven to be telecom’s one bright spot in 2001 – all the long haul backbone capacity in the world does you no good if you can’t move your data through the Metro bottleneck. But service providers are wrestling with all manner of technology choices (SONET? DWDM? Ethernet? The coming 10Gig Ethernet?), and also face the challenge of easily and effectively accessing SANs and VPNs. Quality of service issues are crucial in recruiting and maintaining customers Steven Shepard lays bare the tricks and traps awaiting service providers in the metro area space, detailing the technological challenges and opportunities in his trademark lucid, humorous prose.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Pt. 1 A Lesson in Medieval History 1
Pt. 2 The Metro Network 55
Pt. 3 Enabling Technologies 79
Pt. 4 Metro Applications 217
Pt. 5 Players in the Metro Game 239
Conclusion 259
App. A: Common Industry Acronyms 261
App. B: Glossary 287
Index 313