Tutorial Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Optical Networking

Topics include:

How fiber works (the basics, fiber types and limitations, etc)
Optical power (understanding dBm, loss, using light meters, etc)
Working with optics (choosing the right type, designing optical networks, etc)
DWDM (how it works, muxes, OADMs and ROADMs, amps, etc)
Dispersion and other impairments (what is it, why do we care, how do we fix it)
Optical Myths (can I hurt myself looking into fiber, can I overload my optic, etc)
An update on the latest state-of-the-art optical technologies and trends.