Are you ready to ride the Ethernet bandwidth curve? Marc Holness discusses how Ciena's solution for G.8032 enables more efficient interconnection between network elements. Ciena supports G.8032 across its Carrier Ethernet and packet-optical platforms to provide increased network scalability and a competitive edge.

…modular service-aware operating system, for high-end business and transport services including PBB-TE, Ethernet Virtual Private Line/LAN/Tree, and G.8032 * Provides MAC address and VLAN scalability, interworking flexibility between disparate encapsulation formats, and improved security for customer L2VPNs…

…protection 1+1 Transponder Protection Tray 2-Fiber BLSR/MS-SPRing UPSR/SNCP Ethernet point-point, Ethernet     multipoint-multipoint, G.8032     Ethernet Protection Ring Resilient Packet Ring PDH Gateway International Gateway Bandwidth Management VT1.5, VC12, STS1/LO…

…Ethernet infrastructures * Delivers carrier-class QoS and OAM mechanisms to ensure enforceable SLAs * Maximizes service availability by supporting, G.8032, G.8031, PBB-TE and Link Aggregation protection mechanisms * Features TDM, ATM/IMA and Ethernet pseudowire encapsulation for multiservice traffic separation…

…Control IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control     Protocol (LACP) Jumbo Frames to 9216 bytes Layer 2 Control Frame Tunneling ITU-T G.8032 Ethernet "Ring" Protection     Switching Carrier Ethernet OAM IEEE 802.1ag Connectivity Fault Management     …

… LAN Services (TLS) Single and double VLAN tag translations on     ingress and egress Per VLAN MAC Learning Control ITU-T G.8032 Ethernet Ring Protection     Switching Jumbo Frames to 9216 bytes Layer 2 Control Frame Tunneling Carrier Ethernet OAM IEEE 802…

…Control Per-Port MAC Learning Control IEEE 802.1w Rapid Spanning Tree (RSTP) - now in .1D IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) ITU-T G.8032 Ethernet Rings Protection Switching* Jumbo Frames to 9216 bytes Layer 2 Control Frame Tunneling Interfaces PBB-TE Full B-VID & I-SID address ranges…

…Tree IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control     Protocol (LACP) Jumbo Frames to 9216 bytes Layer 2 Control Frame Tunneling ITU-T G.8032 Ethernet Rings Protection     Switching Carrier Ethernet OAM IEEE 802.1ag Connectivity Fault     Management…

…Hierarchical VPLS; MPLS Label Edge Router and Label Switch Router functions; MPLS-TP; IEEE 802.1Qay PBB-TE, IEEE 802.1D/802.1Q/802.1ad/bridging; and ITU-T G.8032 Ethernet Ring Protection Switching. The 5410 implements resiliency options for these protocols that enable 50 ms recovery from link or port failures…

…) Per-VLAN MAC Learning Control Per-Port MAC Learning Control IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control     Protocol (LACP) ITU-T G.8032 Ethernet Ring Protection Switching Jumbo Frames to 9216 bytes Layer 2 Control Frame Tunneling Multicast Management RFC 2236 IGMPv2 Snooping IGMP Domains…