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

58K views · Jun 7, 2017 · 1:59:29 · 2 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2017–2018

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.

Why Hacker News points people here: Commenters call it an invaluable, approachable way to learn how optical networking actually works.

“proved invaluable to me in learning optical networking”HN comment, 2018

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Strongly recommendsdvno42Oct 2018

“proved invaluable to me in learning optical networking”

Invaluable talk for learning optical networking

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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 - this video

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RecommendsmadsushiAug 2017

“learn something new every time”

Recent version of a recurring optical networking tutorial talk

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

in “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Optical Networking [pdf]” · view on HN
Cites itmmtSep 2018

Updated video version of the optical networking slides

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Looks like the full talk is on youtube at link link And an updated one: this video link I'm not sure which version these slides correspond to.

in “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Optical Networking [pdf]” · view on HN