EtherSec: An Enterprise Ether-network security model

Ethernet has grown since its inception by Metcalfe in 1976. Its growth as a wide-area networking technology has led to a need for operations, administration and maintenance (OAM) requirements. The expansion of this technology into the domain of service providers, where networks are substantially larger and more complex and the user-base is wider, makes the idea of robust and reliable connectivity, very crucial. Going back in history, soon after, the first products in the range of 2.94 Mbps were introduced. It has come a long way since, with the current version supporting traffics of 10 gigabit Ethernet on Copper based LAN. With such astronomic growth in this arena, and looking at higher bandwidth wireless technology to boom in the coming few years, the need of the hour is management, and as a critical flavor of management - security; precisely, dasiaEtherSecpsila. We propose as dasiaEtherSecpsila, a model which promises to provide effective and reliable isolation of individual traffic flows and the associated local area networks (LANs) using CFM (connectivity fault management) as the guard.