Ethernet is increasingly being used to provide services and transport in service provider access networks and carrier backbones. Learn best practices for delivering carrier grade Ethernet and about Ethernet's rise as transport technology and the debate between such options as PBT, PBB-TE and T-MPLS.
Carrier Ethernet meets new enterprise metro data center needs
Submitted By: SearchTelecom.com | 01 Jul 2009 TIP - Service providers are upgrading their metro area networks to support voice and data convergence. Carrier Ethernet is pulling ahead to meet enterprise data center needs.
Carrier Ethernet demand rises as enterprise WAN landscape changes
Submitted By: SearchTelecom.com | 01 Jul 2009 TIP - Carrier Ethernet services are in high demand as enterprises engineer data center consolidation. Service providers can make Ethernet services more effective for customers.
Metro Ethernet service deployment eased by Carrier Ethernet standards choices
Submitted By: SearchTelecom.com | 16 Jun 2009 TIP - Metro Ethernet services are in high demand by enterprise, and service providers currently have a choice of Carrier Ethernet standards to help them merge operations infrastructures.
Juniper adds Comcast to cable operators deploying Carrier Ethernet
SearchTelecom.com | 27 Jun 2008 ARTICLE - Juniper Networks is making headway selling Carrier Ethernet routers to cable operators, whose networks are looking more like those of traditional telecom service providers.
Carrier Ethernet essentials
SearchTelecom.com | 06 Nov 2007 TELECOM INSIGHTS - Learn find helpful tips for delivering Ethernet as a service and gain an understanding of the key issues in Ethernet backbone deployments.
Carrier Ethernet: Standardizing carrier-class characteristics
SearchTelecom | 17 Oct 2007 CHAPTER DOWNLOAD - This chapter download assesses Carrier Ethernet carrier-class characteristics and efforts to standardize services and enable next-generation multimedia applications.
Metro Ethernet services: Switching and service attributes
SearchTelecom.com | 05 Jul 2007 CHAPTER DOWNLOAD - Ethernet Layer 2 switching and the different metro Ethernet service concepts as introduced by the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) are explained in this chapter excerpt.
Ethernet as a service (EaaS)
31 Aug 2007 WORD - Ethernet as a service (EaaS) is the use of high-bandwidth, fiber optic media such as Packet over SONET (PoS) to deliver 10 Mbps, 100 Mbps or even 1000 Mbps Ethernet service to one or more customers across a common ...
Carrier Ethernet
29 Jul 2007 WORD - Carrier Ethernet is the use of high-bandwidth Ethernet technology for Internet access and for communication among business, academic and government local area networks (LANs). Carrier Ethernet can be deployed in three ...
Metro Ethernet
19 Jul 2007 WORD - Metro Ethernet is the use of Carrier Ethernet technology in metropolitan area networks (MANs). Because it is typically a collective endeavor with numerous financial contributors, Metro Ethernet offers cost-effectiveness, ...
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