DocumentCode
858938
Title
Carrier scale Ethernet [Guest Editorial]
Author
Mcguire, Alan ; Parsons, G. ; Hunter, David
Volume
46
Issue
9
fYear
2008
fDate
9/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
84
Lastpage
86
Abstract
The articles in this feature topic cover some of the following topics: an overview of the activity in developing Ethernet solutions in standards bodies; an economic perspective suggesting how a carrier might choose to partition its network to optimize cost and functionality, and also demonstrating how carrier scale Ethernet could complement and interoperate with other technologies; a tutorial on work in the IEEE 802.1 committee related to provider backbone bridging (PBB) and discussion of PBB-TE (PBB with traffic engineering);contrasting approaches to implementing control planes for Ethernet; and a description of Synchronous Ethernet standards being developed to allow transportation of synchronization information over Ethernet.
Keywords
Automatic control; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical optical imaging; Ethernet networks; Optical packet switching; Physics; Protocols; Samarium; Standards development; Time division multiplexing;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Communications Magazine, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0163-6804
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MCOM.2008.4623711
Filename
4623711
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