Tutorial: New and Updated - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Optical Networking
Why Hacker News recommends it
Commenters call it an invaluable, approachable way to learn how optical networking actually works.
What it is
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.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2017 to 2018.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec dvno42 · 2018-10 · on “Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?”
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]
Recommends madsushi · 2017-08 · on “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Optical Networking [pdf]”
YouTube link for the most-recent talk: [this video] I've seen a couple versions of RAS' talk and learn something new every time.
Cites mmt · 2018-09 · on “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Optical Networking [pdf]”
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.