| The advent of switched LAN and ATM technology is dramatically altering today's networking environment. Given the preponderance of existing Ethernet networks today, high-speed, switched and/or full-duplex Ethernet and Ethernet LAN Em-ulation over ATM are extremely important, as is bridging between Ethernet and ATM. In this paper , we evaluate the performance of these newly emerging technologie...

Ethernet is most influential & widely used technology in the world. With the growing demand of low latency & high throughput technologies like InfiniBand and RoCE have evolved with unique features viz. RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access). RDMA is an effective technology, which is used for reducing system load & improves the performance. InfiniBand is a well known technology, which provides high-...

The next generation 10-Gigabit Ethernet Standard is currently under development and is expected to come out in the next few years. This paper highlights ongoing discussions regarding several aspects of 10-Gigabit Ethernet such as market requirements, implementation structures, layer interfaces, coding techniques, frame formats, media, devices, and etc. See Also: Gigabit Ethernet | Gigabit Ether...

In “Real-Time Ethernet I”, we introduced the basic concepts of Ethernet’s capacity to deliver a real-time (RT) communication system. “Real-Time Ethernet II” introduces some of the RT solutions available to industry today*: PROFInet, EtherCAT and ETHERNET Powerlink. It also provides an introduction to a single standard, IEEE 1588 that is growing in popularity amongst RT Ethernet developers to pr...

With the proliferation of mobile users, wireless LANs (WLANs) are quickly entering enterprise networks. These networks have traditionally been configured in a Shared Ethernet topology. Due to the tremendous performance increase over Shared Ethernet, most corporations’ networks are slowly being migrated to a Switched Ethernet topology. Traditional Ethernet switches will not suffice to completely...

This paper shows the recent standardization activities on Ethernet OAM functions. First, it briefly introduces recent carrier class Ethernet services indicating their characteristics and operational issues. Then, it explains current standardization status on Ethernet OAM functions. Finally it shows the requirements for Ethernet OAM functions and details of the OAM mechanisms currently being sta...