An Overview of the MEF.ppt

An Overview of the Work of the Contents and Audience Issues and Opportunities The MEF’s Mission: Accelerate the worldwide adoption of carrier-class Ethernet networks and services This mission is in direct response to the opportunities made available by The need and demand for a simple ubiquitous service Requirement to scale network services to enable rapid deployment of applications critical to enterprises and service providers. Availability of low cost, high bandwidth of Ethernet, beyond the LAN Convergence of business, residential and wireless services Global Expansion from Metro to Carrier Ethernet The Beginning: Metro Ethernet The MEF was formed in 2001 to develop ubiquitous business services for Enterprise users principally accessed over optical metropolitan networks to connect their Enterprise LANs Expansion to Carrier Ethernet The success of Metro Ethernet Services caught the imagination of the world as the concept expanded to include Worldwide services traversing national and global networks Access networks to provide availability to a much wider class of user over fiber, copper, cable, PON, and wireless Economy of scale from the resulting converged business, residential and wireless networks sharing the same infrastructure and services Scalability rapid deployment of business applications Adoption of the certification program While retaining the cost model and simplicity of Ethernet Carrier Ethernet Defined Carrier Ethernet Defined A set of certified network elements that connect to transport Carrier Ethernet services for all users, locally worldwide Carrier Ethernet services are carried over physical Ethernet networks and other legacy transport technologies The 5 Attributes Carrier Ethernet 1 The 5 Attributes Carrier Ethernet 2 The 5 Attributes Carrier Ethernet 3 The 5 Attributes Carrier Ethernet 4 The 5 Attributes Carrier Ethernet 5 Carrier Ethernet: E-Line and E-LAN Services E-Line Service used to create Ethernet Private Lines Virtua