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"Hitless Planned Network Maintenance and Optimization in Connection Oriented Ethernet Networks"CONNECTION ORIENTED ETHERNET
The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) has taken up the industry banner of working to standardize the types and attributes for enterprise service offerings. It has done this by defining key elements of carrier Ethernet services around reliability, scalability, service management, QoS and standardized services. In order to deliver these service attributes and manage the explosive growth, service providers need Ethernet to become more deterministic by evolving to become "connection oriented" and carrier grade. This solution is Connection Oriented Ethernet.
Connection Oriented Ethernet (COE) is a term used by Gridpoint to describe a network solution approach to solve the issues now faced by service operators. COE offers cost and simplicity advantages for service providers by leveraging Ethernet infrastructure facilities throughout the network. The COE network solution approach enables operators to move to a "connection oriented" paradigm by delivering end-to-end paths/connections based upon some of the following fundamentals:
- Pinned path deployment
- Allocated resources
- Mechanism to support an offered load
The migration to end-to-end paths or connections supported within the Connection Oriented Ethernet solution will help operators to migrate their current problematic service management methodologies through:
- The introduction of an abstracted control plane layer
- End to end path connection OAM, based upon industry standards such as the IEEE 802.1ag and Y.1731
- Resiliency managed at the end-to-end path connection