Course Description:
Carriers have offered connectivity services based on traditional TDM, Frame Relay and ATM for many years. However customers now use Ethernet as the interface of choice for virtually all services and applications. The cost of operating separate networks to provide each service, as well as the need to sell higher bandwidth services than can be offered with traditional networks, is forcing carriers to move to newer, more cost effective technologies, namely Ethernet, Backbone Bridging, IP and MPLS.
Ethernet and IP have allowed networks to deliver high bandwidth and new services with greater flexibility, while MPLS has allowed these new services to become more "carrier-class", offering the connection-oriented behaviour, quality of service, and reliability normally associated with traditional technologies. However the signalling and routing costs of MPLS and layer 3 solutions have still been significant, which has lead to the development of other layer 2 Provider Backbone Transports (PBT) and Provider Backbone Bridging (PBB) solutions for small to medium scale carrier metro services.
The Metro Ethernet Forum has evolved a set of standard service definitions for the kinds of Ethernet services customers now require. These can deliver services between sites that look to customers like end to end Ethernet. For carriers they can emulate other traditional TDM services over the same infrastructure and deliver all services over a common unified network by adding Pseudo Wire Emulation edge to edge (PWE3).
This course provides an in-depth look at carrier Ethernet technologies, the Metro Ethernet Forum specifications for services and how these can be delivered over carrier core networks along with other services deployed over PWE3.
Students Will Learn:
- Identify How To Build Networks To Deliver Metro Ethernet Services
- Relate The Importance Of Metro Ethernet Switching To Service-Provider Markets
- Describe How Ethernet Services Can Be Delivered Over MPLS And Provider Backbone Transports
- Describe, Configure, And Troubleshoot Metro Ethernet Deployment Solutions
- Compare Operational Alternatives For Service Delivery, Metro And Core Architecture
- Examine Options For Delivery Of Next Generation Services Over Metro Ethernet
- Identify The Equipment And Solutions That Would Best Fit In Given Customer Scenarios
- Identify How Qos And Security Can Be Guaranteed
- Provision Metro Ethernet Switching Equipment With The Circuits Required To Support Various
- Service Models Across The Classroom
- Test And Troubleshoot Configurations
Course Length:
4 Days
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