Links
IMPORTANT LINKS AND RESOURCES
Links to important journals, conferences, news and discussion sites and forums, professional organizations, telecommunications and networking forums and consortia, research laboratories and projects, as well as other miscellaneous resources on the web focusing on optical networking, and networks in general.
Journals
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Journal of High Speed Networks
Computer Networks and ISDN Systems
Photonic Network Communications
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Conferences
Conferences sponsored by IEEE Communications Society
Conferences sponsored by ACM SIGCOMM
Conferences sponsored by The Optical Society of America (OSA)
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News and Discussions
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Professional Organizations
IEEE: The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
IEEE Laser & Electro-Optics Society
Technical Committee on Computer Communications
Technical Committee on Gigabit Networking
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
OSA: Optical Society of America
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Networking Forums and Consortia
All Optical Networking (AON) Consortium Home Page
ACTS - Horizon Project (Europe)
The Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Forum
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
MCI and NSF: very high performance Backbone Network Service (vBNS) Project
Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA)
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Research Labs and Projects
IBM Research: Optical Networking
Columbia University (CTR) Lightwave Group Home Page
LLNL: Advanced Telecommunications Program and Photonics Program
TestBed for Optical NEtworking (TBONE) Home Page
ARPA's High Performance Networking Page
NSF: Networking and Communications Research Program
Next Generation Internet (NGI) Initiative
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Miscellaneous Resources
Pathways to Programming: A Career Guide for Aspiring Women Developers
WDM Web Resources and News Digest
The WWW Virtual Library: Communications & Telecommunications
The WWW Virtual Library: Networking information (By subject)
YAHOO: Communications and Networking
Bibliographies on Distributed Computing and Networking
Network Wizards --- Internet Domain Survey
Internet Engineering Curriculum -- Courses and References on Networking Online!
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