Chapter 2. Metro Technologies

This chapter covers the following topics:

Metro Ethernet services and applications do not necessarily require Ethernet as the underlying transport technology. The metro can be built on different technologies, such as

  • Ethernet over SONET/SDH (EOS)

  • Resilient Packet Ring (RPR)

  • Ethernet Transport

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