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YOUR SURVIVAL GUIDE TO MAKING SENSE OF THE COMPLEX TECHNOLOGIES AND BURGEONING OPPORTUNITIES OF ETHERNET IN THE METRO ACCESS AND CORESuddenly all the action in telecom is on the local segment of the carrier network - the Metropolitan Area Network (MAN). The big challenge in 2002 and beyond will be to re-architect MANs for broadband services. Of course, great promise comes with great risk, and in today's confusing telecom market people are searching for ways to minimize the unknowns.Ethernet-Based Area Networks is the perfect first resource for assessing your technology options in terms of next-generation platforms, products, and business models. This is the first book to review all emerging metro protocols and their interactions and likely market impact. Written by hands-on industry insiders, Ethernet-Based Area Networks
* Sorts out options and reviews each proposed solution against application requirements
* Helps you find your way through complicated regulatory issues
* Offers design approaches and business models for real-world deployments
* Details new and proposed standards for the metro environment
* Critically examines broadband architectures
* Challenges providers to think out of the boxIf you've been looking for an informative, plainspoken reference that sheds light on all corners of the metro access and metro core environments - your search ends here.
List of contents
Chapter 1: The Metro Access/Metro Core Environment Chapter 2: Gigabit Ethernet and Bridging-Based Architectures Chapter 3: Performance in Ethernet Environments Chapter 4: Virtual LANs and VLAN-Based Architectures Chapter 5: Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol Chapter 6: New-Generation Carriers and the Ethernet LEC Advocacy Chapter 7: Resilient Packet Ring Systems Chapter 8: 10 Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Fibre Channel Chapter 9: IEEE 802.EFM: Ethernet in the First Mile
About the author
Daniel Minoli is CTO of a Wi-Fi startup. Previously a principal of the Infoport Group, product development consultants to the telecom industry, he has had a distinguished career at Lucent Technologies and AT&T. Dan is a prolific author. He also teaches at Stevens Institute of Technology and New York University.
