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Tutorial: New and Updated - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Optical Networking

Tutorial: New and Updated - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Optical Networking

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2 HN recommenders · discussed 2017–2018
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A two-hour NANOG tutorial by Richard Steenbergen aimed at network engineers, covering optical networking technologies. This is the updated 2017 edition of a recurring talk.

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Commenters call it an invaluable, approachable way to learn how optical networking actually works.

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dvno42 · 2018-10 · strong rec

For Networking in the ISP space, for me the most helpful have been: - Interdomain Multicast Routing: Practical Juniper Networks and Cisco Systems Solutions - Inside Cisco IOS Software Architecture - MPLS-Enabled Applications: Emerging Developments and New Technologies This one's not a textbook but proved invaluable to me in learning optical networking: - New and Updated - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Optical Networking - [VIDEO]

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madsushi · 2017-08 · rec

YouTube link for the most-recent talk: [VIDEO] I've seen a couple versions of RAS' talk and learn something new every time.

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mmt · 2018-09 · reference

Looks like the full talk is on youtube at [LINK] [LINK] And an updated one: [VIDEO] [LINK] I'm not sure which version these slides correspond to.

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