Carrier Ethernet Networks
Abstract
This chapter describes how communication industry came together to leverage benefits of Ethernet technology by defining and standardizing Ethernet services, making them reliable and scalable and specifying QoS and service management. This step was essential to make Ethernet-based services carrier grade. This chapter presents definitions of carrier Ethernet, carrier Ethernet networks, UNI, and EVC and describes associated terminology. The chapter also covers Ethernet service types, service attributes, and parameters and method to deliver QoS by traffic engineering which in turn is based on queuing, scheduling, policing, shaping, and stipulating performance parameters. Queuing and scheduling are defined by class ...
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