Metro Ethernet

Book description

The definitive guide to Enterprise and Carrier Metro Ethernet applications

  • Discover the latest developments in metro networking, Ethernet, and MPLS services and what they can do for your organization

  • Learn from the easy-to-read format that enables networking professionals of all levels to understand the concepts

  • Gain from the experience of industry innovator and best-selling Cisco Press author, Sam Halabi, author of Internet Routing Architectures

  • Metro networks will emerge as the next area of growth for the networking industry and will represent a major shift in how data services are offered to businesses and residential customers. The metro has always been a challenging environment for delivering data services because it has been built to handle the stringent reliability and availability needs for voice. Carriers will have to go through fundamental shifts to equip the metro for next-generation data services demanded by enterprise customers and consumers. This is not only a technology shift, but also a shift in the operational and business model that will allow the incumbent carriers to transform the metro to offer enhanced data services.

    Metro Ethernet from Cisco Press looks at the deployment of metro data services from a holistic view. It describes the current metro, which is based on TDM technology, and discusses the drivers and challenges carriers will face in transforming the metro to address data services.

    Metro Ethernet discusses the adoption of metro Ethernet services and how that has led carriers to the delivery of metro data services. With a changing mix of transport technologies, the book then examines current and emerging trends, and delves into the role of virtual private networks (VPN), virtual private local area networks (VLAN), virtual private LAN services (VPLS), traffic engineering, and MPLS and Generalized MPLS (GMPLS).

    Table of contents

    1. Copyright
    2. About the Author
    3. Acknowledgments
    4. Icons Used in This Book
    5. Introduction
    6. Ethernet: From the LAN to the MAN
      1. Introduction to Data in the Metro
        1. The Metro Network
        2. Ethernet in the Metro
        3. The Early Metro Ethernet Movers
        4. The U.S. Incumbent Landscape
        5. The International Landscape
        6. A Data View of the Metro
        7. Metro Services
        8. Ethernet Access and Frame Relay Comparison
        9. Conclusion
      2. Metro Technologies
        1. Ethernet over SONET/SDH
        2. Resilient Packet Ring
        3. Ethernet Transport
        4. Conclusion
      3. Metro Ethernet Services
        1. L2 Switching Basics
        2. Metro Ethernet Services Concepts
        3. Example of an L2 Metro Ethernet Service
        4. Challenges with All-Ethernet Metro Networks
        5. Conclusion
      4. Hybrid L2 and L3 IP/MPLS Networks
        1. Understanding VPN Components
        2. Delivering L3VPNs over IP
        3. L2 Ethernet Services over an IP/MPLS Network
        4. Conclusion
    7. MPLS: Controlling Traffic over Your Optical Metro
      1. MPLS Traffic Engineering
        1. Advantages of Traffic Engineering
        2. Pre-MPLS Traffic Engineering Techniques
        3. MPLS and Traffic Engineering
        4. Conclusion
      2. RSVP for Traffic Engineering and Fast Reroute
        1. Understanding RSVP-TE
        2. Understanding MPLS Fast Reroute
        3. Conclusion
      3. MPLS Controlling Optical Switches
        1. Understanding GMPLS
        2. Establishing the Need for GMPLS
        3. Signaling Models
        4. Label Switching in a Nonpacket World
        5. Conclusion
      4. GMPLS Architecture
        1. GMPLS Interfaces
        2. Modification of Routing and Signaling
        3. Inclusion of Technology-Specific Parameters
        4. Link Management Protocol
        5. GMPLS Protection and Restoration Mechanisms
        6. Summary of Differences Between MPLS and GMPLS
        7. Conclusion
    8. SONET/SDH Basic Framing and Concatenation
      1. SONET/SDH Frame Formats
      2. SONET/SDH Architecture
      3. SONET/SDH Concatenation
      4. Conclusion
    9. Glossary
      1. A
      2. B
      3. C
      4. D
      5. E
      6. F
      7. G
      8. I
      9. L
      10. M
      11. N
      12. O
      13. P
      14. Q
      15. R
      16. S
      17. T
      18. U
      19. V
      20. W
    10. Index

    Product information

    • Title: Metro Ethernet
    • Author(s): Sam Halabi
    • Release date: October 2003
    • Publisher(s): Cisco Press
    • ISBN: 158705096X