Bob Chomycz's put-it-in-your-pocket-and-go Fiber Optic Installer's Field Manual explains the installation of fiber optic cable through a highly effective, highly illustrative, approach a step-by-step. All major optical fiber types are included, along with: a full-scale treatment of Wave Division Multiplexing (WDM) and optical couplers; System integration for offices, industrial plants, and telcos ... modern system and an optical multiplexer ... Ethernet, FDDI and Sonet; broad range of SONET; LAN standard cable; design fundamentals, including bandwidth calculations and network, logical, and physical topology, much, much more.