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How 10 Gigabit Ethernet, RPR And MPLS Work Together: The Future Of Metro Area Networking
White Papers Resilient Packet Ring (RPR). The goal of this paper is to present a unified, if tentative, vision of how MPLS, RPR, and Ethernet should be deployed together in the Metro Networks of the near-future. Over the last year, three new and particularly...
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Adding RPR And MPLS To Existing SONET Using Virtual Concatenation And GFP
White Papers This paper discusses recent technological advances in SONET, RPR and MPLS, continue by making the case for RPR as a shared transport medium for bursty Ethernet services and concludes by outlining specific deployment scenarios in which RPR...
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Positioning RPR In The Technology Universe
White Papers RPR is a new media access control (MAC) protocol closely related to Ethernet but designed to optimize bandwidth utilization and facilitate services over a ring network. RPR then becomes a multi-service transport protocol based on packets rather...
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Private Enterprise Resilient Packet Rings (RPR) Over Dedicated SONET Facilities
White Papers This paper introduces a model for an enterprise-owned, multi-service, next-generation SONET architecture deployed over an existing SONET infrastructure. This model represents a hybrid between a private optical solution over dark fiber and a carrier...
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Global Optical Communication: RPR For Metro Networks
White Papers Metropolitan area network (MAN) plays a vital role in connecting users to wide area networking (WAN) services. Traditionally, MANs have been circuit-switched networks that are optimised for voice traffic using the Synchronous Optical Network
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Operation, Management And Performance Issues Of LAN Technologies Applied To WAN Architecture
White Papers Emerging technologies, like RPR, POS and GE, are being pushed to replace the traditional SONET/SDH and ATM in WAN. This paper evaluates performance issues of RPR, POS and GE on a testbed, including fault recovery, network stress, QoS and multicast...
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Resilient Packet Ring Technology Overview
White Papers Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) is a new technology being standardized in the IEEE (802.17 Workgroup). Recently, the RPR Alliance was established “to promote standards based Resilient Packet Ring technology and to encourage the utilization and...
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Designing FOMs For Performance
White Papers Is it high enough to consider redesigning existing standards such as the RPR FOM? The five RPR FOM spatial attributes (location, velocity, etc.were used as an example for testing. Conventional wisdom has held that there is a significant RTI run...
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Resilient Fast Ethernet Technology
White Papers An alternative known as Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) combines the resilience of SDH/SONET with the lower cost of IP/Ethernet, but it is not yet widely deployed. Scaled for larger deployments, the industry expectation is that while RPR will become...
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Comparing Optical Ethernet Resilient Packet Ring To Packet Over SONET
White Papers This paper will compare Ethernet over RPR implemented by OPTera Packet Edge System with Packet over SONET technology. Optical Ethernet from Nortel Networks allows service providers to increase revenue and decrease costs while continuing to support...
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Next-generation SONET Platforms For Metropolitan Networks
White Papers Finally, they offer technologically innovative solutions such as service modules and resilient packet ring RPR), and set new standards for security and reliability. The new generation of metropolitan network elements is an evolution of legacy SONET...
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Luminous Networks Case Study: China Netcom Corporation
White Papers Luminous Networks' PacketWave metro optical access platform provides an efficient multi-service solution for CNC, with its MPLS-and RPR-based solutions. China Netcom, one of the top three telecommunications carriers in China, has deployed the...
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ONO Carries Broadcast TV Content Over Next Generation Digital Video Transport Network Using IP Multicast
White Papers ONO is delivering broadcast-quality television content using a next-generation digital video transport network based on the Dynamic Packet Transport/Resilient Packet Ring (DPT/RPR), Gigabit Ethernet and IP Multicast capabilities of Cisco 10720...
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Packet Rings: The Future Of Metro Transport
White Papers It also provides information on the IEEE 802.17 RPR effort to develop an industry standard for resilient Packet Rings, of which Riverstone Networks is an active participant. An important trend in networking is the migration of packet-based...
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The Economics Of Cisco's Metro IP Solutions
White Papers In addition, resilient packet ring (RPR) technology presents superior economic value over SONET/SDH and Gigabit Ethernet networks, both in terms of capital expenditures (CapEx) and operating expenses (OpEx).
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Implementing Ethernet VPNs Using Resilient Packet Ring
White Papers This paper focuses on how Nortel Networks OPTera Packet Edge System uses Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) technology to enable service providers to offer Ethernet VPN service over a SONET infrastructure.
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Navigating The Metro Protocol Maze: Next Generation SONET/SDH Networks White Paper
White Papers This paper investigates SONET/SDH-based Layer 1 and 2 technologies used worldwide that bridge the gap between the present and the future, in a flexible and cost effective manner, namely PoS, EoS via Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP), Link Access...
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Broadband Connectivity Revitalizes Communities
White Papers A private, Resilient Packet Ring (RPR)-based Optical Ethernet solution using Nortel's Optical Metro 3500 to support high-bandwidth broadband communications. The Development Authority of the North Country (DANC) is a New York State chartered public...
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Supporting The Community To Deliver Enhanced Services
White Papers By deploying a Nortel Optical Ethernet solution that leverages resilient packet ring (RPR) technology, Kyotango City can now connect the city halls of the six original towns and support a community intranet to deliver enhanced eGovernment services...
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Understanding Intelligent Carrier Ethernet: Bringing The Advantages Of Ethernet To The Service Provider
White Papers This paper introduces Ethernet as a metro networking technology and describes the various technologies and services that can be enabled over an Ethernet infrastructure, including integration with established or emerging technologies such as...
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