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Delivering Carrier Ethernet: Extending Ethernet Beyond the LAN

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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.

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.

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.