This paper presents an overview of the Carrier Ethernet technology with specific focus on resilience. In particular, we detail how multicast traffic, which is essential for e.g. IPTV can be protected. We present Carrier Ethernet resilience methods for linear and ring networks and show by simulation that the availability of a multicast connection can be significantly increased by applying releva...

subjects of intense speculation by industry observers and potential users of the technologies , appear as if they may be ready to begin competing for their place in the networking sun. The demand for both technologies is being caused by the increasing adoption of Internet and intranet technology and the growing number of bandwidth-hungry applications. These factors make it necessary to move an ...

Metro Ethernet has recently attracted remarkable attention due to its simplicity and low cost. Although Ethernet is the dominant technology in the Local Area Network (LAN) which usually handles small number of nodes, when deploying in Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs), it faces certain challenges. One major challenge is its broadcasting based address resolution scheme. A broadcast-based address...

IPv6 is the response to the shortage of IPv4 addresses. It was defined almost twenty years ago by the IETF as a replacement of IPv4, and little by little, it is becoming more preponderant as the Internet protocol. The growth of Internet has led to the development of high performance networks. On one hand, Ethernet has evolved significantly and today it is common to find 10 Gigabit Ethernet netw...