Carrier Ethernet Training

Students will gain a practical understanding of the newer ethernet standards: what business problems they are trying to solve and how the technology works to solve those problems. Protocol discussions include q-in-q, mac-in-mac, and traffic engineering of connectionless ethernet.

Course Objective:

To provide a practical understanding of the technical specifications concerning ethernet and how service providers might implement the technologies to provide business services.

Intro
History of Ethernet
Why Carrier Ethernet
Players in defining Carrier Ethernet specs
IETF
IEEE
MEF
Basic framework for Carrier Ethernet

Ethernet Review
Packet format
Switching basics
Flooding
Fowarding
Learning
VLANs
Control Plane

Demystifying Ethernet Specifications
802.1ad
802.3ad
802.1ag
802.1ah
802.1Qay

Ethernet Services
Point-to-point (E-Line)
Multipoint (E-LAN)
Point-to-Multipoint (E-Tree)

PBB Overview
Why PBB?
How it works
Header Format
Where it fits in the network

PBT/PBB-TE Overview
Why PBT/PBB-TE?
Control plane operation
Where it fits in the network

 

PBT vs. MPLS-TP

Features Comparison
Applications comparison
Interoperability

 

 

Connectivity Fault Management (CFM)
Definitions
CFM entities
CFM protocols
Continuity Check
Loopback
Linktrace

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