Delivering carrier Ethernet
by Abdul Kasim, Prasanna Adhikari, Nan Chen, Norman Finn, Nasir Ghani, Marek Hajduczenia, Paul Havala, Giles Heron, Michael Howard, Luca Martini, Robert Metcalfe, Mannix O'Connor, Matt Squire, William Szeto, Greg White
Carrier Ethernet is rapidly becoming the de facto platform for offering the next generation of high-bandwidth multimedia applications...[this book] provides an in-depth assessment of the various network solutions that can be used to deliver Carrier Ethernet services...based on extensive real-world deployments and is written by globally renowned experts...addresses each underlying technology, its benefits and pitfalls, deployment approaches, ongoing developments, economic assessments, and key vendors promoting the solution...[Explains how] Carrier Ethernet is delivered over: copper, HFC (Hybrid Fiber-Coax), PONs (Passive Optical Networks), TDM (Time Division Multiplexing), Fiber and WDM (Wavelength Division Multiplexing), Optical wireless mesh network/free space optics, SONET (Synchronous optical NETworking) / MSPP (Multi-Service Provisioning Platform), RPR (Resilient Packet Ring), Bridging/switching, MPLS (MultiProtocol Label Switching), WiMAX/WiMAC.