IETF Working Group: IP over Optical (ipo)

http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/ipo-charter.html

IETF Working Group: IP over Resilient Packet Rings (iporpr)

http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/iporpr-charter.html

IETF Working Group: Multiprotocol Label Switching (mpls)

http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/mpls-charter.html

Optical Society of America

http://www.osa.org/

OIF (Optical Internetworking Forum)

http://www.oiforum.com/

ODSI Coalition

http://www.odsi-coalition.com/

National Transparent Optical Network Consortium

http://www.ntonc.org/

SPIE (Society for Optical Enginering), an excellent resource site

http://www.spie.org/

Multiwavelength Optical Networking (MONET) Consortium

http://www.bell-labs.com/project/MONET/

All-Optical Networking Consortium home page

http://www.ll.mit.edu/aon/

FSAN (Full Service Access Network) consortium

http://www.fsanet.net/

Avanex photonic resources on the Web

http://www.photonicresources.com/

Optical networking papers at CAnet3

http://www.canet3.net/library/papers.html

Optical Networking topics at About.com

http://compnetworking.about.com/compute/compnetworking/cs/opticalnetworks/index.htm

Bitpipe (search for "optical")

http://www.bitpipe.com/

Web ProForum (see optical networking topics in list)

http://www.iec.org/tutorials/

Optical Networks Magazine

http://www.optical-networks.com/

Lightwave Magazine

http://lw.pennwellnet.com/

Light Reading optical networking Web site

http://www.lightreading.com/

Noritoshi Demizu multilayer routing Web page (see optical and MPLS links)

http://www.watersprings.org/links/mlr/

Convergence Digest optical networking page

http://www.convergedigest.com/DWDM.htm

Stardust.com optical networking page

http://www.stardust.com/lastmile/optical/

National Academy of Sciences laser and fiber-optic presentation

http://www4.nas.edu/beyond/beyonddiscovery.nsf/web/laser