TABLE OF CONTENTS Welcome to this next installment of the telecommunications made simple writings! When I first started to write in the early 1990s, I was overwhelmed with the amount of work necessary to produce the first book. That was the original Disaster Recovery Planning for Telecommunications, Data and Networks, and it was a rather short book. However, immediately after completing the final edit, I swore never to write another book. Well, here we are 10 books later, still saying the same things, but releasing a new one. This time the topic is fiberoptics, fiber networking, and optical switching for your reading enjoyment and understanding. The intent here is to make the technology easy to understand while giving you facts and applications in the state of the industry. Similar to the past books, if y ou are an engineer looking for technical discussions in the goriest detail, this book is not for you. However, if you fall into the following categories, then this is for you:
Financial analysts trying to understand the cost implications of a fiberoptic network for investment or funding purposes
Telecommunications administrator trying to understand what everyone is all excited about
Salesperson in a telecommunications company trying to walk the walk and talk the talk
Data processing person trying to get the most bang out of the data revolution
Supplier of bandwidth needing to understand what the manufacturers are all saying
Newbie in the industry trying to understand the technologies
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