Satisfying A Taste For Carrier Ethernet

摘要

As carriers and suppliers strive to transition from today's legacy circuit paradigm to tomorrow's packet future, the noise surrounding Carrier Ethernet gets louder and louder. Its strongest proponents boldly declare the replacement of nearly two decades of SDH/SONET and one decade of IP MPLS network deployment. As far as these backers are concerned, the future is here and it's called Carrier Ethernet.rnThe Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) adopted the term Carrier Ethernet just over two years ago when few, if any, carriers even mentioned Ethernet in their strategic planning for network evolution. Now the industry is buzzing with technology-inspired debate: Vendors offer multiple solutions, while carriers evaluate their best path forward to support next-generation transformation.