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Applications of Peering Carrier Ethernet Networks

Abstract

This chapter describes the taxonomy of customers and their applications. This taxonomy provides a structure and important insight in understanding applications that customers need, use, and pay for. Customer applications are the primary purpose of Carrier Ethernet networks (CENs) and peering CENs as well as operations and business support systems (OSS/BSS) which provide very important and necessary foundations on which applications ride.

The chapter then presents application-specific performance requirements or objectives compiled by MEF from variety of sources in public domain. These application-specific performance objectives (APOs) are then mapped to MEF-defined standard CoS performance ...

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