Carrier Ethernet - the cost effective way to expand telecom services

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Operators are looking at carrier grade Ethernet in order to achieve greater economies of scale and deliver mission critical services for their set of enterprise customers.

Owing to its popularity the world over, including India, to this day, copper cabling (i.e., insulated twisted copper wires) is still one of the most widely used media in Carrier Ethernet due to its existing vast deployment and it is relatively low cost. It is almost everywhere as it was the media of choice to deliver plain old telephony service (POTS) to homes and businesses. This is fast becoming a hot destination for operators to look at expansion of telecom services at a minimum added cost.

With carrier Ethernet coming into picture, leveraging this infrastructure, service providers can avoid building out new and costly networks, as they address markets with lower-rate traffic of up to 1 Gigabit per second (Gbit/s) and begin to carry higher-speed traffic (in some cases up to 10 Gbit/s).

Ethernet’s inherent quality of scalability gives operators a highly flexible platform for delivering incremental services to smaller enterprises, branch offices, cellular towers and other sites. However, on the other hand copper is subject to both electromagnetic interference and cross-talk, which can negatively affect the reliable transfer of digital data—and at high speeds, the problem is even worse.

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