Injecting IQ Into 10G Ethernet

Explore OSP Magazine (Jan 21 2013) MEF , Business Ethernet , Metro Ethernet , Mobile Backhaul , Heavy Reading

...with system, power supplies, port, and service path redundancy, including Ethernet Ring protection Switching (ITU-T G.8032 ERPS). Scale is the main difference between 10 GbE NIDs installed at enterprise headquarters or d... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   SLA   OAM   Heavy Reading

Harnessing Next-Generation Network Timing and LTE

Explore Converge! Network Digest (Sep 4 2012)

... TC’s can increase timing accuracy to the nanosecond range, as shown by Vitesse in a recent submission to the ITU-T standards committee. Silicon advances available today will insure that such solutions will carry only a... (Read Full Article)

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Metro Ethernet Forum Notches Three Milestones

Explore CEN Feature (Jul 19 2012) MEF

... percent focus on services has really helped to fill in the gaps left by organizations – such as the IEEE and ITU-T – that are writing the baseline Ethernet standards for more general use,” Durrett says. “In this way, th... (Read Full Article)

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Building the case for Software Defined Networking for metro networks

Explore FierceTelecom (Jul 10 2012) Middle Mile , Mobile Backhaul

...rtualization efforts are underway. Most of the ones I am aware of use MPLS-TP, a standardization project with ITU-T and IETF involvement, rather than OpenFlow as the interface between a centralized control layer and the ... (Read Full Article)

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Optical transport for cell backhaul: SONET, Carrier Ethernet, and cell-site fiber challenges

Explore Lightwave Online (Jul 2 2012) Business Ethernet , Mobile Backhaul

... complex network architectures with the recent announcement of Carrier Ethernet 2.0 by the MEF. ERPS began at ITU-T as part of the G.8032 Recommendation to provide sub-50-ms protection and recovery switching for Ethernet... (Read Full Article)

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Sizing up Connection-Oriented Ethernet approaches: A new eBook from FierceTelecom

Explore FierceTelecom (Apr 23 2012) Middle Mile , MEF , Business Ethernet , Metro Ethernet , Mobile Backhaul

...st one standard, but a collection of implementations that leverage Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), IEEE, IETF and ITU-T standards. Since no two service providers' networks are the same, COE can be implemented using either Et... (Read Full Article)

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The ITU-T Pushes Towards MPLS-TP Answer

Explore Light Reading (Nov 29 2011) IETF , Cloud , Mobile Backhaul , Heavy Reading

...the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and International Telecommunication Union, Standardization Sector (ITU-T) have reached an agreement on how to handle the dispute over MPLS-TP operations, administration and main... (Read Full Article)

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MPLS-TP's Split Standard Could Be Close

Explore Light Reading (Nov 16 2011) IETF , Cloud , Mobile Backhaul , Heavy Reading

...ay of detecting OAM packets that are using G.8113.1. If G.8113.1 doesn't get its code point in time, then the ITU-T won't approve either of the OAM proposals, the spokesman adds. The debate about OAM has been intense. G.... (Read Full Article)

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7 Things to Know About Carrier Ethernet

Explore Light Reading (Nov 11 2011) Event Related , Business Ethernet , Metro Ethernet , Mobile Backhaul , National , Heavy Reading , Vertical Systems

...rd. 6. ITU-T Y.1564. Ratified in January, this International Telecommunication Union, Standardization Sector (ITU-T) standard popped up in a few different talks throughout the session. It's a methodology for testing serv... (Read Full Article)

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EANTC Independently Verifies Interoperability of Latest Carrier Ethernet Innovations by 18 Vendors

Explore businesswire.com (Oct 12 2011) Press

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Overture Networks Raises the Bar: Innovations Help Carriers Deliver Symmetric 200 Mbps Ethernet over Copper

Explore businesswire.com (Aug 8 2011) Business Ethernet

Comment Mentions:   Research Triangle Park   Overture Networks   Paetec

Packet-Optical Data Center Interconnect Networks

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Aug 2 2011) Middle Mile , Business Ethernet

...+ Ethernet OAM (Operations, Administration & Maintenance) standards, including IEEE 802.3ah, IEEE 802.1ag and ITU-T Y.1731, which enable improved performance monitoring and fault management at the Ethernet service and ... (Read Full Article)

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MPLS-TP Camp States Its OAM Case

Explore Light Reading (Jun 24 2011) Managed Data Services

...up, it was clear that some companies think the International Telecommunication Union, Standardization Sector (ITU-T) shouldn't be standardizing a second OAM specification, based on the Y.1731 standard. "The first questio... (Read Full Article)

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Carrier Ethernet ready for a fight – SONET/SDH may be losing ground

Explore CEN Feature (Jun 14 2011) Metro Ethernet , Other analysts

...e area where the Carrier Ethernet industry has work to do in timing and synchronization. With standards like ITU-T G.8262 (a.k.a. SynchE) and IEEE 1588v2 emerging as relative newcomers, we suspect the perception of Ethe... (Read Full Article)

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MPLS-TP Still on the Brink

Explore Light Reading (Jun 1 2011) Business Ethernet , Metro Ethernet , Heavy Reading

...rcise pre-standard options MPLS-TP began as an unprecedented effort by two major standards bodies -- IETF and ITU-T -- to set aside parochial differences and develop a common standard for the necessary OAM tools to enabl... (Read Full Article)

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