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Metro Ethernet Forum, Metcalfe Unveil Carrier Ethernet 2.0

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February 23, 2012

Metro Ethernet Forum, Metcalfe Unveil Carrier Ethernet 2.0

By Paula Bernier, Executive Editor, TMC


Carrier Ethernet has had great success to date, and now it’s poised to get even better.

That’s at least in part because the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF (News - Alert)) this morning formally is unveiling Carrier Ethernet 2.0. The effort brings to the table new certifications, definitions and specifications that will allow for standardized multi-class of service, interconnection, and manageability features for carrier Ethernet.


As a result, MEF representatives tell TMCnet, enterprises will benefit from more efficient bandwidth utilization and predictable carrier Ethernet performance; small and medium businesses will benefit from hosted applications integrated via interconnectivity over single connections; and service providers will benefit from more affordable mobile backhaul, more predicable quality of service, and simplified wholesale relationships among carriers. For example, MEF leaders tell TMCnet, mobile backhaul applications can realize a higher than 25 percent savings as a result of Carrier Ethernet 2.0; that’s in part because 2.0 allows carriers to assign different classes of service for different traffic on their mobile backhaul connections, so part of the link can be used for real-time traffic while another part can be used for premium data services.

Version 2.0 brings the number of services defined by the MEF up to eight. That includes virtual private and dedicated private versions of four services: the existing E-LAN and E-Line services, and new E-Access and E-Tree services. E-Access defines standards around how networks interconnect. E-Tree, which is suited for broadcast video applications, offers an efficient way to accommodate point-to-multiple traffic, explains Michael J. Volgende, who is chairman of the MEF board, and director of product transformation at Verizon (News - Alert).

MEF President Nan Chen tells TMCnet that the first generation of Carrier Ethernet was about defining the evolution of MEF-compliant networks and services. As noted above, Version 2.0 announced today enables multiple classes of services and manageability over interconnected networks. And future generations of MEF-defined Carrier Ethernet, he adds, will aim to enable simplified, automated service delivery.

While the new specs received final approval just last month, the MEF has been working on 2.0 for well over a year, Chen says, so efforts to deliver products and services based on this version are already underway. The MEF expects services and equipment based on Carrier Ethernet 2.0 to be available starting this year.

Bob Metcalfe, the inventor of Ethernet and the keynote speaker for TMC’s (News - Alert) ITEXPO East event held in Austin, Texas this past September, will be introducing the MEF effort in a global press and analyst conference this morning. MEF has been marketing the event today as the public launch of "A New Generation of Ethernet.”










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