October 2003
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
6h 25m
English
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Chapter 2. Metro Technologies
This chapter covers the following topics:
Metro Ethernet services and applications do not necessarily require Ethernet as the underlying transport technology. The metro can be built on different technologies, such as
Ethernet over SONET/SDH (EOS)
Resilient Packet Ring (RPR)
Ethernet Transport