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Software Considerations for High Availability Ethernet Infrastructure

Overview Designing and implementing a reliable Ethernet infrastructure is a top consideration for many operators around the world. However, only a few vendors have developed state-of-the-art, reliability enhancing hardware and software designs, and even fewer, if not Riverstone alone, have implemented extensive failure prevention and rapid recovery mechanisms in software. This paper demonstrates how modular distributed software architectures and Graceful Restart capabilities enhance Ethernet's reliability in carrier voice, wireline and wireless networks.

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Publisher	Alcatel-Lucent	File Format	PDF
Date Published	January 2006	Downloads	3
Format	White Papers
Topics	Ethernet, Infrastructure Management, Mobile - Wireless Communications

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