Chapter 4

Carrier CE Services in Cisco IP NGN Networks

4.1 Overview

This chapter delves a little deeper into the discussion of both managed and unmanaged CE services that a carrier might provide. In Chapter 3, we discussed possible combinations of mapping enterprise classes into the SP classes and the relative impact on each approach. Here we build on these discussions with more details on the configurations and, more important, present some very common carrier product offerings from a QoS standpoint. Having seen requirements in the previous chapters and moving toward QoS implementation and case studies in the chapters ahead, this chapter provides some real-life examples of how carriers build and offer SLA metrics for managed services (services ...

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