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Chapter 9
Evolving SAN,
GbE/10GbE, and Metro
Ethernet Technologies
is chapter is a survey of telecom and networking technologies that are applicable to enterprise
environments. e author published one of the very first books on the topic in the early 1990s
entitled Enterprise Networking: Fractional T1 to SONET, Frame Relay to BISDN (Artech House,
1993). is chapter updates that perspective for the contemporary reader, at least for a handful of
telecommunications domains. After a brief overview we provide a bottom-line section in which
readers interested in general trends for technology architecture planning in reference to enterprise
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