Carrier Grade Ethernet Catching Eyeballs of Indian Telcos

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Operators are busy deploying Ethernet and offering Ethernet based services for their enterprise set of customers in India

With more and more technologically advanced businesses and residential consumers looking to continuously drive the demand for high-value, high-bandwidth data services that deliver voice and video, service providers globally as well as in India are fast realizing the fact that Carrier Grade Ethernet is the only answer to solve deliver cutting edge services for their demanding customers.
Today service providers understand that an all-IP core is not sufficient enough to guarantee delivery of premium services and more importantly the maintenance of SLAs. This is the reason why service providers are now looking at expanding their IP convergence to the edge/metro network, in a cost-effective and quality-assured manner. And this is what driving the Ethernet market in one of the most active telecom markets of the world - India.
What is Carrier Grade Ethernet?
Over the past many years, Ethernet has been globally accepted as an cost effective, highly scalable data-networking solution while operating in LAN environments, however, the strict quality of service (QoS) expectations of today’s service offering require that service providers find solutions to look into the cost-effectiveness of Ethernet without going down on the benefits of legacy time-domain multiplexing solutions such as SONET/SDH.
Customer’s service level agreements or SLAs dictate certain performance criteria that must be met, without any drop in quality and which can easily be verified. However, Ethernet performance criteria are more difficult to prove, and demonstrating attributes such as performance availability, transmission delay, link burstability and service integrity cannot be executed precisely with only a single ping command. Hence, Carrier Ethernet, is the extension of Ethernet that enables service providers to provide premium Ethernet services with an assurance that quality of service is maintained over a long period of time without compromising on the overall cost-effectiveness of Ethernet as a connectivity medium.
Whether it is a small enterprise or a big organization, Ethernet is set to find users in almost all verticals today. And this is perhaps the reason why operators like Tata, Bharti Airterl or RCOM are going all out to encash on the Ethernet adoption within India. Moving forward, this trend is likely to gain further momentum and take India’s telecom infrastructure to the next logical level.