Carrier Ethernet
The Carrier Ethernet subcommittee helps guide work being done to support the specific, evolving and growing demands of Ethernet from carriers and service providers. Carrier Ethernet is not the same thing as simply extending a LAN, and the subcommittee investigates these unique challenges.
Frequently Asked Questions
Carrier Ethernet Subcommittee Frequently Asked Questions
White Papers
The wide adoption of 1G Ethernet passive optical networks (EPON) (per IEEE std P802.3ahTM) provided a significant jump in access network capacity and created demand for greater bandwidth-intensive applications and services such as Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), Video-on-Demand (VoD) and high-grade internet protocol (IP) telephony known as Voice over IP (VoIP). To address these market demands, the IEEE P802.3av Task Force was created in September 2006 and its 10G-EPON draft builds upon the compatibility with the existing 1GEPON.
Provider Backbone Transport Overview - Dec. 07
This paper discusses a new technology called Provider Backbone Transport (PBT) which can be employed within the service provider domain of a Provider Backbone Bridged Network (PBBN) to allow configuration of resilient, traffic engineered, SLA driven, point-to-point Ethernet trunks facilitating guaranteed QoS.
Overcoming the obstacle of the last mile - the connection between an Internet service provider and a business or home - has been the elusive, final frontier. Ethernet has emerged as the frontrunner for transporting broadband Internet protocol transmissions.
Ethernet - The Next Generation WAN Transport Technology - May 02
The LAN, MAN, and WAN are now united under a single medium, Ethernet. This paper describes the technical details, and explains how carriers can now take advantage of Ethernet as a transport for their network backbone and their service media.
10 Gigabit Ethernet Interconnection with Wide Area Networks - Mar. 02
With the advent of 10 Gigabit Ethernet, the commonality of line rates between OC-192 SONET and 10GE has opened up the opportunity to simplify the interface. This paper describes how 10GE nodes can easily interconnect with OC192 SONET networks without leaving the Ethernet cost model behind.