Title :
Engineering aspects in OFCS curricula
Author :
El-Sayed, Osman Lotfy
Author_Institution :
Cairo Univ., Egypt
Abstract :
Optical fiber transmission has revolutionized the telecom industry. In fact the pace of technological advances in the design of OFCS was so rapid that, in less than 1980s and 1990s, the cost of transmission on transatlantic submarine links has been reduced by more than two orders of magnitude. Optical fiber systems established themselves as the preferred medium, not only for large capacity backbones and global submarine links, but also for CATV networks and high speed LAN´S, MAN´S and WAN´S
Keywords :
cable television; metropolitan area networks; optical cables; optical fibre LAN; optical fibre subscriber loops; submarine cables; teaching; wide area networks; CATV networks; OFCS curricula; engineering aspects; global submarine links; high speed LAN; large capacity backbones; optical fiber systems; optical fiber transmission; optical fibre MAN; optical fibre WAN; technological advances; telecom industry; transatlantic submarine link transmission costs; Communication industry; Integrated optics; Marine technology; Optical fiber networks; Optical fibers; Optical propagation; Synchronous digital hierarchy; System testing; Telecommunications; Underwater vehicles;
Conference_Titel :
Teaching Photonics at Egyptian Engineering Faculties & Institutes, 1999. Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Giza
Print_ISBN :
977-5031-63-X
DOI :
10.1109/TCHPHT.1999.782480
