White Paper New Backhaul Networks For Mobile Broadband Prepared by Patrick Donegan Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading www.heavyreading.com On behalf of www.ciena.com November 2007 © HEAVY READING | NOVEMBER 2007 | WHITE PAPER | NEW BACKHAUL NETWORKS FOR MOBILE BROADBAND 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS I. MOBILE BROADBAND ...

... Ethernet, the G10 modules initially support provisioned VLAN cross-connects and will support Provider Backbone Bridging-Traffic Engineering (PBB-TE) as it gets closer to standardization by the IEEE. "Converged Ethernet infrastructure is much more than simply putting more services across one network ...

White Paper New Backhaul Networks For Mobile Broadband Prepared by Patrick Donegan Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading www.heavyreading.com On behalf of www.ciena.com November 2007 © HEAVY READING | NOVEMBER 2007 | WHITE PAPER | BACKHAUL FOR MOBILE BROADBAND 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS I. MOBILE BROADBAND: THE CATALYST ...

... the most demanding applications including VoIP, storage extension and circuit emulation * Connection-oriented Ethernet transport tunnels (e.g. PBB-TE, VLAN cross-connect) and connection admission control ensure deterministic performance and restoration of Ethernet services * Supports a wide range of ...

... tunnel, based on Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) cross-connect technology, with support for Provider Backbone Bridging-Traffic Engineering (PBB-TE)* to be added when standardized by the IEEE. As shown in Figure 1, traffic generally is transported across the metro in one of the following three ways ...

White Paper Beyond Carrier Ethernet: Making Ethernet Performance-Grade Introduction TODAY, VIRTUALLY ALL NEW END-USER and most new machine-tomachine applications are designed around the Internet Protocol (IP). Within 99 percent of Local Area Networks (LANs), Ethernet is used to carry those IP packets ...

White Paper Making the Case for Converged Ethernet Transport The Advantages of Integrating Layer 2 Ethernet with Layer 0/1 Transport Executive Summary The rapid growth of IP traffic is creating a period of transition from circuit to packet optimization. Service providers--already having made significant ...

... ) Stacking (also known as Q-in-Q), IEEE 802.1ah (MAC-inMAC), Provider Backbone Bridging (PBB), Provider Backbone Bridging-Traffic Engineering (PBB-TE) Traffic Policing Flow control for Ingress Policing with 64 Kb/s granularity for CIR/PIR Burst per flow and priority NETWORK MANAGEMENT Management Interfaces ...

... rules and service portfolios. The adoption of emerging forms of Ethernet transport solutions such as traffic-engineered provider backbone bridging (PBB-TE), VLAN stacking (or Q-in-Q), Ethernet pseudowires and VPLS underscores this trend. In response to the expanding role of Ethernet in carrier networks ...

White Paper Beyond Carrier Ethernet: Making Ethernet Performance-Grade Introduction TODAY, VIRTUALLY ALL NEW END-USER and most new machineto-machine applications are designed around the Internet Protocol (IP). Within 99 percent of Local Area Networks (LANs), Ethernet is used to carry those IP packets ...