The deployment of Ethernet in a metropolitan area network (MAN). Metro Ethernet evolved into Carrier Ethernet, which was designed to offer Ethernet services spanning any distance. See Carrier Ethernet.
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- Connection-Oriented Ethernet - Completing the Ethernet Revolution
- Ethernet is the hottest thing going in metro networking. Ethernet enterprise services are forecasted to grow at a compound annual rate of over 25% per year and first-generation triple play networks are all based on Ethernet. To satisfy these demands, service providers have deployed a wide variety of Ethernet technologies,...
- White papers 2009-05-14
- MPLS PLug-and-PLay for Metro Ethernet Networks
- This paper will focus on an opportunity to revolutionize the way Metro Ethernet networks are built by applying the concept of MPLS Plug-and-Play, a technology developed by Juniper Networks. MPLS Plug-and-Play offers carriers a way to reduce the operating expense associated with deploying and managing MPLS-based Metro Ethernet networks while...
- White papers 2009-02-01
- Nortel explores bankruptcy
- Nortel Networks is reportedly seeking legal counsel to figure out its bankruptcy option in case its restructuring fails. According to the Wall Street Journal, a Nortel bankruptcy filing isn't imminent, but remains an option. Nortel unveiled its latest cost savings plan last month. The...
- Blog posts 2008-12-10
- Connection-Oriented Ethernet: Operational and Deployment Considerations
- Connection-oriented Ethernet technology holds great promise. It creates, for the first time, a single metro aggregation and transport infrastructure that service providers can use for: access to IP and other higher layer services, high-quality private-line site-to-site enterprise services, residential wireline broadband backhaul infrastructure and mobile broadband backhaul infrastructure. Service providers...
- White papers 2008-12-04
- Towards a Transponder for Serial 100 Gigabit Ethernet Using a Novel Optical SERDES
- Video, data-center and mobile backhaul traffic promises to dominate much of metro traffic in the near future causing speculation for bandwidth exhaustion in the C-band. This has led to motivations for 100 Gbps per wavelength proposals especially in the Ethernet space. The 100 Gbps Ethernet GE proposals are currently being...
- White papers 2008-10-07
- Nortel whacked by currency, carrier spending, delays
- The technology confession season continues. Next up to bat is Nortel, which lowered its third quarter revenue targets because it is seeing "significant pressure" as telecom carriers cut back on spending and enterprise customers curb IT spending. Bottom line: Nortel all resources is now expecting revenue of...
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- Qwest CTO on FTTP, bandwidth caps and integrated services
- Qwest plans to roll out integrated home services where it ties its services in with those from its partners such as MSN and DirecTV in a move enabled by a thin layer of software, according to Qwest CTO Pieter Poll. Poll right talked about Qwest's broadband strategy...
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Selecting the Best Spanning Tree in Metro Ethernet Networks Using Genetic Algorithm
- IEEE Spanning Tree Protocol STP is a layer-2 protocol which ensures a loop free topology in Metro Ethernet networks. It is based on Minimum Spanning Tree solution that involves determining the links which can join all the nodes of a network together such that the sum of the costs of...
- White papers 2008-06-01
- MPLS Plug-and-Play for Metro Ethernet Networks: Deploying a Carrier-Class MPLS Metropolitan Ethernet Network to Reduce Operating Expense and Network Complexity
- This paper will focus on an opportunity to revolutionize the way Metro Ethernet networks are built by applying the concept of MPLS Plug-and-Play, a technology developed by Juniper Networks. MPLS Plug-and-Play offers carriers a way to reduce the operating expense associated with deploying and managing MPLS-based Metro Ethernet networks while...
- White papers 2008-04-01
- Practical TDM Service Migration to a Converged Ethernet Infrastructure
- For the last several decades, most businesses have used Time Division Multiplexing TDM private lines to support point-to-point, dedicated inter-office voice and data connectivity. In the mid-1990s, the shared or virtual and lower-cost nature of Frame Relay altered this model. Over time, Metro Ethernet Forum MEF-based Carrier Ethernet E-Line and...
- White papers 2008-04-01
- Building High-End Ethernet Functionality Into SDH Networks
- For now, NG-SDH seems to have its roots firmly entrenched in Service Provider networks. Given the ubiquitous presence of SDH in the metro, incrementally offering high-end Ethernet services over this SDH network would be the best way of packetizing the metro. This approach ensures that the Service Provider can start...
- White papers 2008-03-05
- Nortel Networks Case Study: Hertfordshire County Council
- Hertfordshire County Council is one local authority that most definitely thinks 'Business'. Its 'The way we work' initiative is designed to enable more than 4,000 staff at the Council to operate like a cutting-edge enterprise, with greater flexibility and enhanced collaboration in order to meet the needs of its constituents...
- Case studies 2008-02-12
- QoS in Ethernet Access Ring
- Ethernet is being extended to Metro Area Networks MAN mainly due to its simplicity and low cost. However Ethernet protocols need extensions to succeed as MAN technology in terms of scalability, Quality of Service QoS, resiliency and Operations, Administration and Maintenance. The QoS mechanism existing in Ethernet is localized to...
- White papers 2008-02-03
- Metro Ethernet Services Business Overview for Service Providers
- Demand for bandwidth in the Metropolitan-Area Network MAN or metro is expanding exponentially, the result of myriad factors, including data-intensive applications, new business models that rely on the Internet, the growth of broadband services, distributed applications, Web services, IP convergence, streaming content, multimedia, new computing models, networked storage, and business...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- AQOS - Advanced Cisco Quality of Service
- View Available Dates and LocationsThis recently updated 5-day advanced course will teach you to design, configure, test, and troubleshoot end-to-end QoS for enterprise networks based on Cisco best practices. Campus QoS design and WAN QoS design are the two major focus areas of this course. Design considerations...
- Training 2008-01-01
- OCTPO - Cisco ONS SONET 15454 Turn Up, Test, Provisioning, Basic ML, and Operation Training v7.0
- View Available Dates and LocationsThe Cisco ONS 15454 is a fast and powerful yet easy-to-use optical platform that lowers the cost and increases the efficiency of bandwidth delivery within optical transport networks. In this instructor-led course, you'll get hands-on training on a 6-node ONS 15454 system. Working...
- Training 2008-01-01
- Metro Ethernet Technology on Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switch
- Ethernet technology has experienced several changes, evolving from a shared-media half-duplex 10 Mbps LAN technology to a full-duplex switched 10/100/1000/10000 Mbps LAN technology, as the demand for higher networking speeds has grown. Ethernet switches, too, have evolved with advanced capabilities; notably, advanced Quality of Service QoS and security, which previously...
- White papers 2007-12-26
- Metro Ethernet Service Delivers Higher Capacity, Controlled Costs, and Easier Upgrades
- The Cisco headquarters campus in San Jose, California, was served by four separate OC-3 links for Internet connectivity. When one of these links needed to be replaced, Cisco IT implemented a Metro Ethernet circuit with a Cisco 12404 Router as the gateway - yielding the company higher capacity and traffic...
- Case studies 2007-12-18
- High-Quality Carrier Ethernet Services Using Metro Packet Optical Transport
- Carrier Ethernet business services are gaining in popularity worldwide, and are forecast to grow from over $3 billion in 2006 to at least $10 billion by 2010. This healthy outlook is sure to create heavy competition among service providers and necessitate a transformation of best-effort services into more sophisticated offerings,...
- White papers 2007-11-01
- Nortel Network Case Study: IT-AUSTRIA
- Financial institutions are increasingly centralising their systems and processes, requiring large volumes of data to be transferred from remote branches to major data centres. This placed new demands on the infrastructure of service provider iT-AUSTRIA, which delivers data centre services as well as voice and data services to high-profile financial...
- Case studies 2007-10-16
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