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                     IEEE COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE 
 

         Management of Optical Networks and Services 

  Optical networking has undergone an impressive change in recent years: The 
capacity  per  fiber  has  dramatically  increased  in  bandwidth  and  range;  Switched 
optical networks with greater flexibility are popping up. The key feature of such new 
networks is the dynamic provisioning of high-capacity optical network services.  
 One piece in the overall picture is the dynamic signaling. Several proposals for 
signaling in optical networks have been made. Among the them GMPLS, which is 
in the standardization process at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and in 
UNI 1.0 of the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF).  

 The other piece includes management solutions, which center around automated 
service  provisioning  and  customer  network  management.  Automated  service 
provisioning allows for faster provisioning and less failure in the process. This issue 
gets even more severe if multiple domains are crossed to provide optical network 
services. One part of automation can be Customer Network Management (CNM). 
In  this  context,  the  customer  may  be  a  carrier,  service  provider,  or  an  end user. 
The  customer  is  given  an  enhanced  service  by  being  allowed  to  view  into  the 
network, in a limited way, to monitor and adjust its service at will. 

 We invite contributions covering all aspects of Management of Optical Networks. 
Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: 
       - Management Systems for Switched Optical Networks 
       - Management Information Modeling for Optical Networks 
       - Optical Network Service creation and provisioning 
       - Management of IP/MPLS/GbE over Optical 
       - Fault management in multi-tier networks 
       - Inter-domain Management Interface 
       - Path management 
       - Management in the GMPLS environment 
   

Prospective  authors  should  e-mail  their  manuscripts  as  a  postscript  or  pdf 
attachment  to  all  guest  editors  by  June  15,  2003.    (Please  see 
http://www.comsoc.org/~ci/ for the author's guidelines.)  The following is the timetable 
for this feature topic publication:  
 
       Submission Deadline: June 15, 2003 
       Acceptance Notifications: September 15, 2003 
       Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2003 
       Journal Publication: January 2004 
 

Guest Editors 

 Marcus Brunner  
Networking Laboratories, NEC Europe Ltd. 
Kurfürsten-Anlage 36, D 69115 Heidelberg 
Email: brunner@ccrle.nec.de 

  Mehmet Ulema 
Manhattan College 
Riverdale, NY 10471-4098 
Email: mehmet.ulema@manhattan.edu 
 
Hussein T. Mouftah 
School of Information Technology and Engineering 
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N 
Email: Mouftah@site.uottawa.ca