Evolution of Carrier Ethernet Services
Carrier Ethernet services are evolving to use the following features:
- Management visibility onto the customer site
- VLAN support using 802.1Q, including Q-in-Q stacked VLANs
- Quality of service using 802.1p VLAN prioritisation with traffic policing and shaping
- Service monitoring using 802.3ah EFM and 802.1ag CFM
- SLA performance measurement and verification using Y.1731
- Service installation and provisioning using RFC2544 and Y.1564
- FCM8000 - Managed Ethernet Demarcation Device provisioned via copper or fibre infrastructure
- FCM9000 - Managed Ethernet Demarcation Device provisioned via single or resilient fibre infrastructure
- FCM9004 - Advanced Ethernet Demarcation Device, including advanced multi-flow provisioning tools and in-service SLA verification
For Metro Edge Access concentration, Metrodata provides the MC12000 service delivery platform, which used in combination with FCC9000 modules enables Metrodata's "Zero-Touch" provisioning for EDD deployments.
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Carrier Ethernet Deployment Metrodata offers a range of solutions for Carriers and Ethernet Service Providers that are looking to deploy intelligent managed differentiated Ethernet services. Typical deployment scenarios are:
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Core-Edge Networks Carriers and Ethernet Service Providers need to terminate their Ethernet services via manageable demarcation devices at the customer premises. The access demarcation device may need to provide media conversion, but will also need to support provisioning and service performance monitoring tools compliant with emerging Carrier Ethernet 'Operations, Administration and Maintenance' (OAM) standards. The FCM8000, FCM9000 and FCM9004 products from Metrodata fulfill these functions. |
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| Wholesale/Multi-Carrier Infrastructures
Most Ethernet Service Providers today are 'Aggregators', offering end-to-end connections supplied on a wholesale basis from potentially a number of different Infrastructure Carriers. Whilst those Carriers may offer discrete 'Service Level Agreements' (SLAs) for their portions of the network, the Aggregator must assure the SLA of their service from end-to-end, right up to the Customers' premises. As the wholesale Ethernet service will now be provisioned as copper then the FCM8000 product from Metrodata can be used for Ethernet service demarcation. If full service characterisation is required then the FCM9004 product from Metrodata should be used. |
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| Site-to-Site & Meshed Networks
Complex network configurations require that the Ethernet Access Demarcation devices are able to maintain multi-flow links for point-to-point (E-line) or point-to-multipoint (E-LAN) or (E-tree) network topologies. The FCM8000 and FCM9000 products support 802.3ah EFM and 802.1ag CFM, whilst the FCM9004 product also has advanced service provisioning tools and SLA verification capabilities. |
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