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Table 7-1 International Telecommunications Union (ITU) (www.itu.org)
Interested American National Standards Institute (ANSI) (www.ansi.org)
Committees and
Standards Bodies Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (www.atis.org)
Telecommunications Industries Association (TIA) for Fiber Optics (FO)
(www.tiaonline.org)
Bellcore/Telcordia Technologies (www.bellcore.com)

European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) (www.etsi.org)
Full-service access networks (FSAN) committees

TEAMFLY

The industry anticipated that the SONET equipment makers
would make reliable OC-192 (10-Gbps) systems or face stiff compe-
tition from DWDM manufacturers, setting the stage for a new wave
of competition.Actually, the SONET/SDH manufacturers jumped on
the WDM bandwagon with their own products. The major
SONET/SDH and WDM systems manufacturers include the vendors
shown in Table 7-2.
Not everyone makes full systems; some make the components that
go into a system. Still others create components and networking ele-
ments in their catalog of offerings. The networking elements include
the following:

DWDM
Optical amplifiers

Add-drop multiplexers
Optical cross-connects
Optical gateways
Optical network units

The market has been in a feeding frenzy since the late 1990s and
early 2000.

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