Carrier-Grade Ethernet Technologies for Next Generation Wide Area Ethernet

Carrier-Grade Ethernet Technologies for Next Generation Wide Area Ethernet

This paper describes an overview of overall carrier-grade Ethernet technologies for next generation wide area Ethernet. In recent years, from access network to metro and core network, we can find many areas where communication services are provided by Ethernet technologies. This comes from the fact that operational efficiency and economical efficiency of Ethernet are far better than that of con...

Enabling next Generation Ethernet Access with Ethernet Passive Optical Networks

This article describes Ethernet Passive Optical Networks (EPONs), an emerging local subscriber access architecture that combines low cost point-to-multipoint fiber infrastructure with Ethernet. EPONs are designed to carry Ethernet frames at standard Ethernet rates. EPONs use a single trunk fiber that extends from a central office to a passive optical splitter, which then fans out to multiple op...

Special Section on the Next Generation Ethernet Technologies

Ethernet is being applied to the Local Area Network field due to its low cost, and easy installation and operation. Because IP centric communication has been adopted widely, a recent trend is the application of Ethernet to Wide Area Networks to form the transport networks needed for IP communication. For example, recent optical access networks for FTTH and leased line networks for business user...

Ethernet Transport over Wide Area Networks

Recent Trends in Next Generation Terabit Ethernet

Smart phones, Tablets, Wi-Fi (Wireless Local Area Network), 3G, 4G, IPTV etc. have increased the pressure on Ethernet data rates in last five years and hence industries were forced to standardize 10, 40, 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) speeds presently, and 400GbE,1Terabit Ethernet (TbE) and 10TbE speeds in coming years. The increase in bit rate depends on the number of users, increase in access, an...