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This book is an important reference source for today's communications professionals. The book offers an overview of data communication using both fiber optics and optoelectronics. In addition, the book offers guidance regarding all the industry standards, gives a complete list of sites on the Internet and World Wide Web for more data online, and interprets professional opportunities in fiber optics.
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DATA COMMUNI(ATI0N HANDBOOK OF FIBER OPTIC DATA COMMUNICATION HANDBOOK OF FIBER OPTIC DATA COMMUNICATION Second Edition CASIMER DeCUSATIS Editor IBM Corporation Poughkeepsie, New York ACADEMIC PRESS An Elsevier Science Imprint San Diego London Boston New York Sydney Tokyo Toronto This book is prhted on acid-free paper. @ Copyright 0 2002,1998by Academic Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, hcluding photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Requests for permission to make copies of any part of the work should be mailed to the following address: Permissions Department, Harcourt,Inc., 6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, Florida 32887-6777. The appearance of the code at the bottom of the first page of a chapter in this book indicates the Publisher’s consent that copies of the chapter may be made for personal or internal use of specific clients. The consent is given on the condition, however, that the copier pay the stated per copy fee through the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (222Rosewood Drive, Danvers, Massachusetts01923),for copying beyond that permitted by Sections 107 or 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law. This consent does not extend to other kinds of copying, such as copying for general distribution, for advertising or promotional p