Tutorial: New and Updated - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Optical Networking

Tutorial: New and Updated - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Optical Networking on HackerTube: recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 separate months, 2017–2018.

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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.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Commenters call it an invaluable, approachable way to learn how optical networking actually works.

people recommended it: 2
separate months: 2
strong recommendations: 1
discussed on HN: 2017–2018

“proved invaluable to me in learning optical networking”
— dvno42, Oct 2018, in “Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?”

What HN commenters said

3 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.

dvno42Oct 2018Strongly recommends

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

in “Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?” · View on HN

madsushiAug 2017Recommends

YouTube link for the most-recent talk: ▶ this video I've seen a couple versions of RAS' talk and learn something new every time.

in “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Optical Networking [pdf]” · View on HN

mmtSep 2018Cites it

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.

in “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Optical Networking [pdf]” · View on HN

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