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Carrier Cloud Day Two

Location: Paris

Duration of the formation: 3 days

Dates: 23, 24 and 25 April 2013

Course language: English

Course materials: English

Prerequisite: Basic knowledge of MPLS and Ethernet.

Detailed program of the formation

Lecturer: Pr. André Danthine

Fees and Registration

Who Should Attend?

Communication, IT and network managers and analysts, Internet and
intranet specialists, manufacturers, service providers and carrier personnel.

The attendees are expected to have a basic knowledge of MPLS and Ethernet.



  From Legacy Ethernet to Carrier Ethernet 2.0 for the Business Services of the Enterprise

Born in 1980, Ethernet is still the technology of the enterprise sites. From the shared medium of its birth, the evolution of Ethernet has been continuous: introduction of the transparent and learning bridges, of the Spanning Tree for the reliability, of VLANs to limit the diffusion domains and to adapt the communication system to the enterprise organization and finally passing from a diffusion model to a full duplex switching system. Last but not least, the evolution of the bandwidth has always been ahead of the needs of the connected equipments and congestion was not a real problem in this connectionless system operating in best effort mode. On the contrary, the interconnection of the sites of a corporate network has always been a problem.

In 2001, the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) defined three types of Ethernet services oriented connection, E-Line (point-to-point), E-LAN (multipoint-to-multipoint) and later on E-Tree (point-to-multipoint). Ethernet follows the same evolution as IP with the introduction of MPLS in 1998.

Facing the anarchical development of limited offers of Ethernet Service by the operators, the MEF, in 2004, redefined its mission: "accelerate the worldwide adoption of carrierclass Ethernet networks and services". To a carrier class service is associated an SLA. For the operator, the SLA is linked to the added value of the service while it is on the realisation of the SLA that the satisfaction of the customer will be judged. Between 2005 and 2008, the MEF developed its certification program.

Under the pressure of the customers, the emphasis passed, at the end of the decade, from a carrier–based Ethernet service in the Metro to a carrier-based Ethernet service global, on the same geographical basis as the Internet. The MEF concentrated its efforts on the interconnection of providers of services as well as the use of wholesale operators able to provide tunnels to reach customer "of net".

In February 2012, the MEF announces CE 2.0 to revisit the certification program and some specifications centred on the three new directions of works: the 3 CoS, the interconnection and E-Access and the management.

The last part of the seminar will cover the new architectures of the enterprises' networks with Q-in-Q, VPLS (MAC-in-MAC), H-VPLS, PBB and PBB-TE.

It will be shown that Ethernet Pseudo Wires over MPLS will allow VPLS and H-VPLS to deploy for the enterprises global solutions for the interconnection of their distributed sites. It will be shown also that to become a carrier-class Ethernet operator, PBB has to evolve to PBB-TE to offer the same global solution but without deploying MPLS between the the Metro access and the access of the edge of the backbone.

A discussion about T-MPLS and MPLS-TP will close the seminar.
     
    Summary

From Legacy Ethernet to 100 GigE and More
About the Corporate Networks
Legacy Metro Ethernet
OAM (Operation, Administration and Maintenance)
Legacy Ethernet OAM
Ethernet Services and the MEF (Metro Ethernet Forum)
Standards for Service Validation
Ethernet Demarcation Device and OAM
SLA and OAM
The MEF and the "Carrier-Class" Ethernet Network
Global Interconnect 2010
Y-1564 (ex Y-156sam) Ethernet Service Activation
CE 2.0 (2012-> )
From Bridged Ethernet in LAN to a MAN behaving as an Ethernet Bridge
VPLS - Virtual Private LAN Service on a IP/MPLS Backbone
H-VPLS - Hierarchical VPLS
PBB - Provider Backbone Bridging
From PBB to PBT (Provider Backbone Transport) and PBB-TE
T-MPLS (Transport MPLS) and MPLS-TP (MPLS Transport Profile)
     
   
     
   
 
     
     
 
 
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