#1 2008

Theme: Optical access networks and local area networks
Release Date: March 2008
Events (bonus distribution): SvyazExpocomm-2008

Issue continues topic of optical access networks development and penetration of optical technologies into local systems.
Following questions would be observed:

• Requirements of access network cased by new services (IPTV, HDTV, Triple Play, interactive services, and others) deployment
• Active equipment in access networks and local area networks
• Passive and active access networks
• Infrastructure of access and local area networks
• New cables and optical fibers for access networks and local area networks

#2 2008

Theme: Optical networks development: trends and outlooks
Release Date: June 2008
Events (bonus distribution): ЕСОС-2008

Issue observes all level networks development, bandwidth growth solutions by means of new technologies. Following questions would be observed:

• Tunable and reconfigurable optical networks
• Wave multiplexing (DWDM/CWDM) deployment in metro networks and long-haul networks
• World experience and outlooks of NGN deployment in Russia
• Metro and long-haul networks infrastructure
• Optical cable for metro and long-haul networks

#3 2008

Theme: Optical cables
Release Date: September 2008
Events (bonus distribution): VKSS-2008, INFOCOM-2008

By tradition third autumn issues of Lightwave Russian Edition magazine observe optical cable manufacturing and optical service networks operation. Following questions would be observed:

• Support of reliability and quality of service in fiber-optics infrastructure
• World experience and outlooks of new types of optical cable deployment in Russia
• Optical cables for access networks and local area networks
• Analysis of optical cable usage in Russia and predictions of its dynamics
• Uniformity of measurements of optical cable parameters
• Hanging and self-bearing optical cables
• Optical cables for special usage

#4 2008

Theme: Optical networks operation efficiency
Release Date: December 2008
Events (bonus distribution): CSTB-2009, CABEX-2009, NORWECOM-NEXT-2009

Issue observes increase of networks operation efficiency and concomitant problems of measurements and certification. Following questions would be observed:

• How to provide high reliability factor in networks
• Peculiarities of fiber-optic telecommunication line installing and operation in Russia
• Testing of passive optical networks (PON)
• Scanning of new generation optical networks (NGN)
• Automated network control systems