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Ethernet

What is Carrier Ethernet?

 

  • Carrier Ethernet is a ubiquitous, standardized, carrier-class SERVICE defined by five attributes that distinguish Carrier Ethernet from familiar LAN based Ethernet
  • It brings the compelling business benefit of the Ethernet cost model to achieve significant savings
  • Service providers worldwide are migrating their existing networks to deliver Carrier Ethernet services to Enterprises, businesses & residential end-users

 

Standardized Services

 

  • E-Line, E-LAN provide transparent, private line, virtual private line and LAN services
  • A ubiquitous service providing globally & locally via standardized equipment
  • Requires no changes to customer LAN equipment or networks and accommodates existing network connectivity such as, time-sensitive, TDM traffic and signaling
  • Ideally suited to converged voice, video & data networks
  • Wide choice and granularity of bandwidth and quality of service options

 

Scalability

 

  • The ability for millions to use a network service that is ideal for the widest variety of business, information, communications and entertainment applications with voice, video and data
  • Spans Access & Metro to National & Global Services over a wide variety of physical infrastructures implemented by a wide range of Service Providers
  • Scalability of bandwidth from 1Mbps to 10Gbps and beyond, in granular increments

 

Reliability

 

  • The ability for the network to detect & recover from incidents without impacting users
  • Meeting the most demanding quality and availability requirements
  • Rapid recovery time when problems do occur, as low as 50ms

 

Quality of Service

 

  • Wide choice and granularity of bandwidth and quality of service options
  • Service Level Agreements (SLAs) that deliver end-to-end performance matching the requirements for voice, video and data over converged business and residential networks
  • Provisioning via SLAs that provide end-to-end performance based on CIR, frame loss, delay and delay variation characteristics

 

Service Management

 

  • The ability to monitor, diagnose and centrally manage the network, using standards-based vendor independent implementations
  • Carrier-class OAM
  • Rapid service provisioning

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