Metro Ethernet

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ISBN: 9781587050961 | 158705096X
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 1/1/2004

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& bull; Discover the latest developments in Metro networking, Ethernet, and MPLS services and what they can do for your organization. & lt;br/ & gt; & bull; Learn from the easy-to-read format that enables networking professionals of all levels to understand the concepts. & lt;br/ & gt; & bull; Gain from the experience of industry innovator and best-selling Cisco Press author, Sam Halabi, author of Internet Routing Architectures.

Introduction
Goals and Methods
Who Should Read This Book?
How This Book Is Organized
Ethernet: From the Lan to The Man
Introduction to Data in the Metro
The Metro Network
Ethernet in the Metro
The Early Metro Ethernet Movers
The BLECs
The Metro Ethernet Carrier
The Greenfield Value Proposition
The U.S. Incumbent Landscape
Existing Legacy TDM Infrastructure
Building an All-Ethernet Data Network
Pricing the Service
The Incumbent Regulations
The International Landscape
The European Landscape
The Asian Landscape
A Data View of the Metro.
Metro Services
LAN to Network Resources
Ethernet L2VPN Services
Ethernet Access and Frame Relay Comparison
Conclusion
Metro Technologies
Ethernet over SONET/SDH
The Role of Virtual Concatenation
EOS Used as a Transport Service
EOS with Packet Multiplexing at the Access
EOS with Packet Switching
EOS with Local Switching
EOS Interfaces in the Data Equipment
Resilient Packet Ring
RPR Packet Add, Drop, and Forward
RPR Resiliency
RPR Fairness
Ethernet Transport
Gigabit Ethernet Hub-and-Spoke Configuration
Gigabit Ethernet Rings
Conclusion
Metro Ethernet Services
L2 Switching Basics
MAC Learning
Flooding
Using Broadcast and Multicast
Expanding the Network with Trunks
VLAN Tagging
The Need for the Spanning Tree Protocol
Metro Ethernet Services Concepts
Ethernet Service Definition
Ethernet Service Attributes and Parameters
Example of an L2 Metro Ethernet Service
Challenges with All-Ethernet Metro Networks
Restrictions on the Number of Customers
Service Monitoring
Scaling the L2 Backbone
Service Provisioning
Interworking with Legacy Deployments
Conclusion
Hybrid L2 and L3 IP/MPLS Networks
Understanding VPN Components
Delivering L3VPNs over IP
GRE-Based VPNs
MPLS L3VPNs
L2 Ethernet Services over an IP/MPLS Network
The Pseudowire Concept
PW Setup Via L2TPv3
Ethernet over MPLS-Draft-Martini
Virtual Private LAN Service
Conclusion
MPLS: Controlling Traffic Over Your Optical Metro
MPLS Traffic Engineering
Advantages of Traffic Engineering
Pre-MPLS Traffic Engineering Techniques
Altering IGP Routing Metrics
Equal-Cost Multipath
Policy-Based Routing
Offline Design of Virtual Circuit Overlays
MPLS and Traffic Engineering
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