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Bandwidth Profiles for Ethernet Services: This paper provides a comprehensive technical overview of bandwidth profiles for Ethernet services, based on the work of the Metro Ethernet Forum MEF Technical Committee. The paper is intended to help buyers, users, providers of Ethernet services, and equipment and semiconductor vendors understand the various types, characteristics and usage of...; Tags: Bandwidth, Metro Ethernet, Metro Ethernet Forum, Ethernet, Networking; White papers 2004-11-04
Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON): A Tutorial: A Passive Optical Network PON is a single, shared optical fiber that uses inexpensive optical splitters to divide the single fiber into separate strands feeding individual subscribers. PONS are called "Passive" because, other than at the CO and subscriber endpoints, there are no active electronics within the access network. Using...; Tags: Ethernet, Fiber, Metro Ethernet Forum, Passive Optical Network, PONS, Network Technology, Networking; White papers 2005-11-01

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Understanding Metro Ethernet Forum Standards for Services: One of the highest priorities for the Metro Ethernet Forum MEF has been the establishment of standards for Ethernet services. These standards will allow subscribers to successfully plan and integrate Ethernet services into their overall networks - and to be able to do so with services from more than one...; Tags: Metro Ethernet, Standards, Ethernet, Network Technology, Networking; White papers 2005-01-01
Metro Ethernet Standards: Cisco's Commitment to Innovation and Interoperability: Join several industry experts for a live, interactive discussion about the latest developments within the Metro Ethernet standards bodies. Review the importance of interoperability and Cisco's commitment to carrier-class solutions that are based on Metro Ethernet technologies. Learn why Metro Ethernet standards are vital to service provider success, and how...; Tags: Innovation, Interoperability, Metro Ethernet, Cisco Systems Inc., Standards, Ethernet, Network Technology, Networking; Webcasts
Metro Ethernet Gives Danish Service Provider the Power to Deliver Triple Play: To enable EnergiMidt to offer broadband, TV and telephony services for both residential and business customers. A carrier-grade Ethernet infrastructure covering the whole of the region, based on Nortel Optical Metro 5200 in the core and Nortel Metro Ethernet Routing Switch 8600s in all core and aggregation sites. The Nortel...; Tags: Nortel Networks Corp., Metro Ethernet, Ethernet, VOIP, Network Technology, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking; Case studies 2007-09-19

Performance Management of Metro Ethernet Services: As more and more forms of communication are migrated to Enterprise and consumer networks (voice, video, database access, data storage, imagery, real-time applications) the demand for bandwidth is accelerating. Metro Ethernet offers the highest speed and lowest price-per-bit to date, making it a great opportunity to service providers and their...; Tags: Performance, Metro Ethernet, Performance Management, Ethernet, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Networking; White papers 2006-07-06
The Value of Subscribing to Managed Metro Ethernet Services From Service Providers With Cisco QoS Certification: The paper begins by describing how Ethernet has evolved from a technology exclusive to LANs to one equally at home in WANs - the "Metropolitan area." By extending Ethernet to the WAN, one can better control the communications; take advantage of converged voice, data, and video services; and save money,...; Tags: Certification, QoS, Metro Ethernet, Cisco Systems Inc., Ethernet, Network Technology, Networking; White papers 2006-01-01
Metro Ethernet as a Wide Area Technology and Why It Must Be Secured: Metropolitan Area Networks MANs have emerged as a key network infrastructure among enterprises looking to connect their users across vast networking topologies. A MAN sits between a Local Area Network LAN and a Wide Area Network WAN to enable sharing of resources across a region. As networks expand, both geographically...; Tags: Metropolitan Area Network, Network, Metro Ethernet, Metro Ethernet Network, Ethernet, Networking, Network Technology; White papers 2006-04-20
Managed Metro Ethernet Services: Business Advantages for the Enterprise: This white paper summarizes the advantages of Metro Ethernet for enterprises and small and medium-sized businesses SMBs and explains the advantages of out-tasking to a managed service provider. The paper concludes with case studies of companies that currently take advantage of a managed Metro Ethernet service from a member of...; Tags: Metro Ethernet, Cisco Systems Inc., Ethernet, Smb/Sme, Network Technology, Networking; White papers 2005-03-01
End-to-End Ethernet Connectivity Fault Management in Metro and Access Networks: OAM Operations Administration and Management refers to the tools to monitor and troubleshoot a network. Ethernet OAM is seen as a pre-condition for efficient rollout of Ethernet services. Alcatel has recognized the lack of OAM functionality today in the original native Ethernet and has proposed VPLS OAM for MPLS encapsulation...; Tags: Microsoft Access, Network, Alcatel, Ethernet OAM, Ethernet, Network Technology, Networking; White papers 2005-06-01
Ethernet and India - Growing Together: The telecommunications needs of the rapidly growing BFSI, IT, ITeS and the SME segments are bound to put a lot a strain on existing infrastructure, and Service providers will have to rapidly scale their operations to service these sectors. While Metro Ethernet services are the ideal solution to meet the...; Tags: Industry, Metro Ethernet, Tejas Networks, Ethernet, Network Technology, Networking; White papers 2007-03-12
Metro Ethernet WAN Services and Architectures: To provide a common framework for metropolitan-area or metro and wide area Ethernet, this paper presents a service-centric approach to Ethernet WAN services and defines four canonical services. Service-related attributes that enable and enhance Ethernet WAN services are also described in detail. Reference network architectures, including those being discussed in...; Tags: Metro Ethernet, Service, Ethernet, WANs, Network Technology, Networking; White papers 2003-03-19
Nortel Network Case Study: TeleCable: TeleCable wanted to empower a leading regional service provider to deliver flexible, resilient, high-bandwidth connectivity to an important regional savings bank. Nortel's Metro Ethernet Networking portfolio, comprising the Metro Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 and the Metro Ethernet Services Units 1800 and 1850. Provider Backbone Bridges (IEEE 802.1ah) deliver massive scalability,...; Tags: Network, Nortel Networks Corp., Metro Ethernet, Networking; Case studies 2007-03-07
Breaking out of walled gardens: The promise of ethernet interconnection: COLT has always been a pioneer in the delivery of Ethernet services. Our Ethernet capability stretches back to 1993 when we launched our first point-to-point Ethernet service. We quickly developed it into our standard Ethernet service, COLT LANL ink, and followed that with Ethernet over DSL , hub-and-spoke and any-to-any...; Tags: COLT TELECOM Group, Ethernet, Network Technology, Networking; White papers 2007-08-23
Metro Ethernet Provision: Many reasons have made Ethernet today's dominant technology, and it is now making a challenge for the Access and Metro areas. Ethernet has been used for short-range and high-bandwidth networking. Remote site connections have been based on leased lines, FR and ATM; all of them relying on SDH. The challenge...; Tags: Metro Ethernet, Trend Communications, Ethernet, Network Technology, Networking; White papers 2006-11-01
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...; Tags: Metro Ethernet, Ethernet, Network Technology, Networking; White papers 2008-01-01
VPLS: Scalable Transparent LAN Services: The goal of Metro Ethernet is to provide a multipoint-to-multipoint Ethernet service that can connect multiple LANs that are either within the same metro area or spread across geographically disparate metro areas such that they behave as if they were all attached to the same Ethernet LAN. An emerging standard...; Tags: Juniper Networks Inc., Ethernet, LANs, Network Technology, Networking; White papers 2003-03-01
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...; Tags: MPLS, Network, Juniper Networks Inc., Metro Ethernet, Network Technology, Ethernet, Networking; White papers 2008-04-01
Webcast: Why "Ethernet Everywhere" is Coming, and How it Must Be Secured: Ethernet has transcended its Local Area Network LAN origins. This ubiquitous and disruptive technology is now capable of meeting the long-range transport (up to 128 kilometers without regeneration), bandwidth (10+ Gbps), high-availability (99.999%), low-latency (55 milliseconds nation-wide) and security requirements of Metro Area Networks MANs, Wide Area Networks WANs...; Tags: Webcast, Network, SafeNet Inc., Ethernet, WANs, Networking, Network Technology; Webcasts 2006-04-27
Integrating Ethernet in Carrier Class Networks: Service providers are experiencing a variety of processing demands for handling the growth of Ethernet traffic in converged IP networks in both metro and core environments. IP convergence, with its operational and service agility efficiencies, is leading the way for next generation multiservice offerings. In access networks, and through much...; Tags: Network, Metro, Ethernet, Network Technology, Networking; White papers 2006-07-01

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