Chapter 1. Metro Area Optical Networks
This chapter covers the following topics:
The MAN environment within the total network architecture
Key services that are needed in the MAN
Technologies that are used in the MAN
Cisco products and the services they support
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This chapter introduces you to the characteristics of a metropolitan-area optical network (MAON) and discusses the applications and services in that ...
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