Delivering Carrier Ethernet: Extending Ethernet Beyond the LAN [Hardcover]

Abdul Kasim (Author), Prasanna Adhikari (Author), Nan Chen (Author), Norman Finn (Author), Nasir Ghani (Author), Marek Hajduczenia (Author), Paul Havala (Author), Giles Heron (Author), Michael Howard (Author), Luca Martini (Author), Bob Metcalfe (Author), Mannix O'Connor (Author), Matt Squire (Author), William Szeto (Author), Greg White (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 23, 2007 | ISBN-10: 0071487476 | ISBN-13: 978-0071487474 | Edition: 1

Understand and evaluate the delivery of Carrier Ethernet using different technologies

Carrier Ethernet is rapidly becoming the de facto platform for offering the next generation of high-bandwidth multimedia applications. Delivering Carrier Ethernet: Extending Ethernet Beyond the LAN provides, for the very first time, an in-depth assessment of the various network solutions that can be used to deliver Carrier Ethernet services. The book is based on extensive real-world deployments and is written by globally renowned experts. A standard solution framework is used consistently throughout to address each underlying technology, its benefits and pitfalls, deployment approaches, ongoing developments, economic assessments, and key vendors promoting the solution. The potential evolution of Carrier Ethernet itself is also considered in detail.

• Copper
• HFC (Hybrid Fiber-Coax)
• PONs (Passive Optical Networks)
• TDM (Time Division Multiplexing)
• Fiber and WDM (Wavelength Division Multiplexing)
• Optical Wireless Mesh Network/Free Space Optics
• SONET (Synchronous Optical NETworking)/MSPP (Multi-Service Provisioning Platform)
• RPR (Resilient Packet Ring)
• Bridging/Switching
• MPLS (MultiProtocol Label Switching)
• WiMAX/WiMAC

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About the Author

Abdul Kasim is vice president for ethernet business development at ADVA Optical Networking, a global provider of optical and ethernet solutions for metropolitan networks.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 550 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (October 23, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071487476
• ISBN-13: 978-0071487474
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.6 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #486,765 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Anthony, June 3, 2008

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anthony (Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Delivering Carrier Ethernet: Extending Ethernet Beyond the LAN (Hardcover)

Delivering Carrier Ethernet is an excellent text on the subject. It is well structured, reviewing Ethernet fundamentals, and providing a templeted view of all the EoEverything technologies, without resorting to detailed protocol analysis. It has a good context of the evolution, and technologies. I've been in the carrier provider business for over 20 years, and this is a good as it gets. Multiple contribuors helps - nobody can be an expert across all these developing areas.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Industry Global Perspective, February 5, 2009

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M. Sinno "msinno" (Allentown, NJ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Delivering Carrier Ethernet: Extending Ethernet Beyond the LAN (Hardcover)

This book provides a backgrond on the fast moving Carrier Ethernet technologies and implementations taking place in the world today. It does focus on North America, however the solutions defined in this book can be applied globally. For those interested in how other technologies provide Ethernet transport, service, and OAM, this book provides a great introduction and overview. Even more important, this book provides insights form industry experts on where a technology would be useful to deploy and where a technology would be ineffective - something most other Carrier Ethernet books do not discuss.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Can't wait until carrier Ethernet knocks on my door, September 26, 2008

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Christian Stredicke (Berlin, Germany) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Delivering Carrier Ethernet: Extending Ethernet Beyond the LAN (Hardcover)

I bought the book without really being interested in the topic of carrier Ethernet in the beginning. I just wanted to learn a little bit more about all the buzzwords that I hear (SONET, MPLS, ...). But as I started reading, I realized what a great potential this topic has.

After some introduction, for each technology there is a chapter that explains how it works and what the potential is. It is easy to skip chapters that are already known or not interesting. The description is just an overview. For a real deployment, of course more documentation would be needed. But that is not the focus of the book.

Those guys who are interested how Ethernet and VoIP will look like in a few years should take the time and check this book out.