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Optical Network Design and Implementation
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Optical Network Design and Implementation

by Vivek Alwayn
March 2004
Intermediate to advanced
840 pages
21h 45m
English
Cisco Press
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Ethernet Services

Ethernet services are ubiquitous in nature and could someday replace ATM as the technology of choice, thereby changing the utopian adage of “ATM everywhere” to “Ethernet everywhere.” IPv4 and/or IPv6 would obviously ride on Ethernet fulfilling the requirement as a routable protocol that could provide corporate intranet connectivity as well as full compatibility with the public Internet. Ethernet has become the leading contender for packet transport in the metro. As an alternative to circuit-oriented technology, such as SONET/SDH and ATM, optical Gigabit Ethernet (GE) technology, which is capable of supporting fiber spans of more than 50 miles, is a good match for carrying IP data traffic. Because nearly all IP packets begin ...

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