Abstract
href="http://www.osa-jon.org/virtual_issue.cfm?vid=7" Feature Issue on
Optical Ethernet (OE). Since the introduction of Ethernet technology in the 1980s,
Ethernet has undergone major modifications and recent advances such as the support
of 10 G interfaces, the resilient packet ring (RPR) standard, the Ethernet passive
optical networks (EPONs), and so on have transformed Ethernet from a dominant local
area network (LAN) networking technology to a key, flexible and cost-effective
networking technology for metropolitan area networks (MANs). The purpose of this
paper is to assess Ethernet maturity for deployment in MANs, based on different
assessment criteria such as service provisioning and delivery (scalability issues
related to the media access control (MAC) addresses and the supported number of
virtual LAN identifiers), network protection and restoration as well as network and
service management (provisioning of Ethernet services, fault identification, and
monitoring). This assessment is based on a real-case scenario of deploying an
advance metropolitan gigabit Ethernet network from a network service provider in
Greece, Attica Telecom.
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