1. A Taxonomical Consideration of Optical Add/Drop Multiplexers

   • Cedric F. Lam
   • Nicholas J. Frigo
   • Mark D. Feuer

   OriginalPaper Pages: 327 - 333

2. Design and Performance Evaluation of Traffic Grooming Algorithms in WDM Multi-Ring Networks

   • Sun-Sik Roh
   • Won-Ho So
   • Young-Chon Kim

   OriginalPaper Pages: 335 - 348

3. Scalability of a Metropolitan Bidirectional Multifiber WDM-Ring Network

   • Kalle Ylä-Jarkko
   • Matti Leppihalme
   • Ari Tervonen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 349 - 362

4. Optical Data Network Based on the Switchless Concept: Analysis and Dimensioning

   • Marco Listanti
   • Davide Parisi
   • Roberto Sabella

   OriginalPaper Pages: 363 - 375

5. Network Access to 2000 WDM Channels at 2 GHz Granularity with a Single Laser in C-band

   • Ronan O'Dowd
   • Sean O' Duill
   • Gavin Mulvihill

   OriginalPaper Pages: 377 - 381

6. Approximate Modeling of Optical Buffers for Variable Length Packets

   • F. Callegati

   OriginalPaper Pages: 383 - 390

7. Improved Performance Analysis for Synchronous Single-Hope WDM Networks

   • Ioannis E. Pountourakis

   OriginalPaper Pages: 391 - 392

8. A New Architecture for Nonblocking Optical Switching Networks

   • Md. Mamun-ur-Rashid Khandker
   • Xiaohong Jiang
   • Susumu Horiguchi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 393 - 400