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Carrier Ethernet Implementation: How to Profit without the Pain
This white paper logically follows the flow of the Agilent-LightReading webinar held on June 7, 2007. This can be reviewed by clicking here.
Developing and deploying Carrier Ethernet devices and services offers new revenue generation opportunities while reducing infrastructure and operational costs. However, the implementation path is fraught with scalability, robustness and interoperability risks:
- Will network infrastructure scale to meet customer growth and new services?
- How well can evolving fault-management technologies such as CFM, BFD, LACP, RSVP FRR and MSTP cooperate to reduce network outage?
- Can switched technologies, such as PBB/PBT, and VPLS technologies from different vendors transparently co-exist, providing end-to-end service?
Through anticipating and solving the challenges via carefully planned testing throughout all stages of development and deployment, both vendors and operators can realize the gain without feeling the pain.
This white paper:
- Briefly examines the market and technology drivers;
- Assesses the key development and deployment risks on several Carrier Ethernet technologies;
- Answers the questions above by revealing tangible test scenarios and showing real test results from testing commercially available devices using the N2X Multiservices Test System.
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