
9
Optical Ethernet: Protocols,
management, and 1–100 G
technologies
Cedric F. Lam and Winston I. Way
OpVista, Milpitas, CA, USA
9.1 INTRODUCTION
After years of harsh winter in the telecom industry, which started from the burst of
the technology bubble in the beginning of this century, telecom service providers
are again hard working with vendors to deploy the next-generation equipment to
prepare for the growing bandwidth demands, which are propelled by a slew of new
broadband applications such as internet protocol television (IPTV), network
gaming, peer-to-peer networking, video/web conferencing, telecommuting, and
voice over IP (VOIP).
As the vehicle that ...