See
service providers
Ethernet service types
E-LAN service, 70??“71
E-LINE service, 70
private and virtual connectivity
services, 71??“73
Ethernet services. See also services
barrier to, 111??“112
costs associated with delivery of,
40??“41
current state of deployment of,
39??“40
delivery of, 60??“61, 375
demand for, 106??“107, 111
diversification of, 115
drivers for, 40
establishment by MEF 6 and
MEF 10.1, 57
examples of, 284??“285
expansion of, 108??“109
MEF specifications for, 329
messages used in troubleshooting
of, 90??“91
offerings of, 110??“111
over IP WANs, 450
revenue acceleration related to, 36
revenue from, 108??“109
revenues from, 39
revenues from Asia Pacific, 109
savings associated with, 33??“34
seamless delivery of, 128
service provider model for, 57??“58
statistics related to, 110??“111
strategies for, 111??“112
in urban commercial
environments, 252
using MSPP and EoS with, 315
Ethernet switches, relationship to
packets, 277
Ethernet technologies, overview of,
115??“116
Ethernet transport, applications
for, 283
Ethernet transport services, providing
in access networks, 267??“268
Ethernet Virtual Connection (EVC),
role in Carrier Ethernet, 59??“61
Ethernet Virtual Private LAN
(EVPLAN), explanation of, 73
Ethernet Virtual Private Line
(EVPL), creation of, 72
Ethernet-Local Management
Interface (E-LMI), overview
of, 92
Ethernet-over-copper
and 2BASE-TL, 132??“133
and 10PASS-TS, 133
compatibility and international
applications, 134
and multipair aggregation,
135??“136
technology description of, 131??“132
vendors of, 145
EuroDOCSIS-compliant equipment,
vendors of, 161
Europe, RPR service providers in, 372
EVCs (Ethernet Virtual
Connections)
direct routing of, 400
individual management of, 90
role in Carrier Ethernet, 59??“61
support by UNIs, 68
traversal of backbone core by, 376
EVPL (Ethernet Virtual Private
Line), creation of, 72
EVPLAN (Ethernet Virtual Private
LAN), explanation of, 73
Excess Burst Size (EBS),
relationship to service
frames, 63
Excess Information Rate (EIR),
relationship to service
frames, 63
External Network-to-Network
Interface (E-NNI), definition
of, 60
F
fairness algorithms, availability
in RPR protocol,
356, 358
fairness differential delay (FDD),
relationship to fairRate, 339
fairness frames, sacontrol field
in, 353
fairness procedure, role in MAC
reference model, 334??“340
fairness round trip time (FRTT),
computation of, 339
fairRate
adjusting, 339
advertising upstream, 337
computing, 336
propagation of, 338
Fast Ethernet, early renditions
for, 210
Index 539
fault signaling, relationship to EFM
OAM, 91??“92
FCS (Frame Check Sequence) in
Ethernet frame, bytes and
description of, 7
FCS error coverage, relationship to
RPR frames, 351??“353
FDD (fairness differential delay),
relationship to fairRate, 339
FDDI (Fiber Distributed Data
Interface) LAN technology,
development of, 13??“15
FEC (forward error correction)
in optical networks, 203
relationship to DOCSIS physical
layer, 152
RFC associated with, 423
FEC 129
significance of, 439
use of BGP autodiscovery
with, 445
FGP (Generic Framing Procedure),
relationship to circuit
bonding, 271
fiber, availability of, 267
Fiber Distributed Data Interface
(FDDI) LAN technology,
development of, 13??“15
fiber network deployment scenarios
corporate extension, 223??“224
PoP (point of presence), 226
residential and backhauls,
225??“226
SANs (storage area networks),
224??“225
fiber networks.
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