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Technology Brief: Carrier Vs. Enterprise Ethernet Silicon

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Overview Ethernet has been the dominant networking protocol in Local Area Networks (LANs) due to its high bandwidth, ease of use, and low cost. Until recently, its success in LANs has not translated to communications networks due to limitations in Ethernet's scalability, reliability, and manageability. With the latest developed standards and Ethernet products specifically built for carrier applications, Ethernet has begun to penetrate applications where TDM, ATM or SONET have been the prevalent solution for many years. This paper will discuss the requirements for carrier-class applications and it will compare and contrast solutions developed using carrier Ethernet silicon versus enterprise silicon products.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Lightstorm Networks	File Format	PDF
Date Published	April 2008
Format	White Papers
Topics	Ethernet, Local Area Networks (LAN), Bandwidth Issues

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