Features

These features are defined as:

1. Standardized Services
   1. Ethernet Line and Ethernet LAN services provide transparent, private line, virtual private line, and extended LAN services
   2. A ubiquitous service providing globally & locally via standardized equipment
   3. Requires no changes to customer LAN equipment or networks and accommodates existing network connectivity such as, time-sensitive, TDM traffic and signaling
   4. Ideally suited to converged voice, video, data, and backhaul networks
   5. Wide choice and granularity of bandwidth and quality of service options
2. Scalability
   1. The ability for millions to use a network service that is ideal for the widest variety of business, information, communications and entertainment applications with voice, video and data
   2. Spans Access & Metro to National & Global Services over a wide variety of physical infrastructures implemented by a wide range of Service Providers
   3. Scalability of bandwidth from 1 Mbps to 10 Gbps and beyond, in granular increments
3. Reliability
   1. The ability for the network to detect & recover from incidents without impacting users
   2. Meeting the most demanding quality and availability requirements
   3. Less than 50ms recovery time when problems do occur
4. Quality of Service
   1. Guaranteed end-to-end performance matching the requirements for voice, video and data delivered over converged business and residential networks
   2. Wide choice and granularity of bandwidth and quality of service options
   3. Guaranteed end-to-end performance to defined SLAs based on EIR, CIR, frame loss, delay and delay variation characteristics
5. Service Management
   1. The ability to monitor, diagnose and centrally manage the network, using standards-based vendor independent implementations
   2. Carrier-class OAM
   3. Rapid service provisioning

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• Part 1:
  Overview
• Part 2:
  Key Attributes
• Part 3:
  Features
• Part 4:
  Applications
• Part 5:
  Carrier Ethernet Market Projections
• Part 6:
  Summary