Ethernet- Lifeline of Communications for Enterprise

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Ethernet is gaining ground, not only globally but also right here in India. Emergence of enterprise segments like the manufacturing or the retail vertical is making sure that there is great demand for cutting edge Ethernet based applications and services. There is demand for a new breed of services today.

These new services include point-to-point Ethernet on usage-based billing, the addition of new points-of-presence (POPs), and its new offering of 10Gb Ethernet service for carriers.

Owing to the surge in demand from the enterprise customers, telcos and operators are already busy devising their strategies to roll out Ethernet based services and applications. This layer 2 connectivity service provides usage-based billing on a monthly 95th percentile and it is priced per megabit that is calculated on a sliding scale, which means the cost per megabit decreases in every bandwidth used.

This is an enhancement to the current Ethernet services scheme that most of the operators offer that includes Global Dedicated Ethernet running on Ethernet-over-SONET/Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) network, which is deployed on Ethernet-over-multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) architecture.

It is important for us to remember that Ethernet services are not new in the market. However, there has been a revival in its usage over the past two years. Companies are familiar with Ethernet technologies as they have been using it in their LAN and WAN. With the economic crisis, data traffic has slowed down for some companies and dedicated leased lines are underutilized.