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Ethernet – Driving a World of Convergence

Posted on November, Monday 14, 2011 By itVAR News Network

Convergence is surely going to take communications to the next level and Ethernet is playing a very important role here. When it comes to operators or even the enterprise customers, Ethernet based services are not new in the market. However, there has been a revival in its usage over the past two years or so. 

Companies are familiar with Ethernet technologies as they have been using it in their LAN and WAN. And today Ethernet is driving a whole new world of convergence for the enterprise end user community.

With the global economic crisis of the recent past, data traffic has slowed down for some companies and dedicated leased lines are underutilized. With Ethernet lines, companies can now manage cost in a much better manner as they can easily handle their usage with usage-based billing, as well as allow them to be more cost effective. 

While some service providers have already reached an advanced stage in Ethernet service offerings, others are still in their infancy stage to meet customers' demand for high-symmetrical bandwidths delivery.
 
A large number of the regional service providers and global service providers (GSPs) are already offering Carrier grade Ethernet services, along with other Ethernet access services. Today, in the Indian context with enterprise requirements, Carrier Ethernet is essential to SPs' migration from traditional circuit-switched networks using converged network technology. 

As part of this offering, the service is delivered as point-to-point (E-Line) or multipoint (E-LAN) with bandwidths ranging from 1Mbps to 10Gbps, which has specific profiles for variable bandwidth and quality-of-service (QoS) demands — making it ideal for data, voice, and video and hence driving the convergence for the enterprise set of customers. 

In a bid to provide a true carrier-grade Ethernet solution, Service Providers have been certified by Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), the highest level of certification available worldwide. Moving forward, operators are increasingly going to look at Ethernet based services for their enterprise customers in order to deliver more with less.

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