Presented by Mark Showalter, Extreme Networkshttp://www.extremenetworks.com
Two Minute Video: Carrier Ethernet Service Engineering
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You just read about Carrier Ethernet. Here is what it replaced:
Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) served 2004–2010. What ultimately replaced it?
Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) a dual counter-rotating fiber ring with a fairness MAC that shared bandwidth statistically and healed in under 50 ms - SONET-grade resilience with packet efficiency. Its job passed to Carrier Ethernet — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
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August 24From 25 years of the Converge Digest archive.