Whitepapers
The requirement for 100’s of Mb per cell tower for 3G and 4G services is good news for backhaul providers who stand to gain new business from delivering that bandwidth. However, it also presents fundamental business challenges for the mobile backhaul provider. Mobile backhaul networks must have the scalability to handle 3G and 4G bandwidth growth. Service providers focused on delivering maximum scalability are already architecting 10GigE solutions for mobile backhaul.
The DS1s and E1s used for mobile backhaul have stringent performance requirements. They are similar to other carrier infrastructure applications in their requirement for high reliability and bit-error performance. These circuits are more demanding than many infrastructure circuits, however in their latency, jitter and wander requirements. While the performance requirements for DS1/E1 mobile backhaul are not new, the prospect of putting these mission critical services over new packet infrastructure has made this a hot topic for discussion.
The “Mid-Band Ethernet Spectral Compatibility Handbook” is designed to help Carriers and Service Providers better understand the spectral compatibility of symmetric services. There are a number of options for delivering symmetric services – T1s, HDSL, SHDSL, enhanced-SHDSL, and VDSL2 to name a few. In this handbook we mostly focus on the two newest technologies for symmetric services – enhanced SHDSL and VDSL2 – to see how they compare in realistic deployment environments.
The virtualized services model of cloud computing has significant implications on today's network, and how it is evolving to the network of tomorrow. The network impact of cloud computing is in fact so significant that any discussion on cloud computing should also include cloud networking. Without the network, there could be no cloud. Since Carrier Ethernet is the optimal networking solution for connection oriented services and the optimal Layer-2 for IP services, is also the optimal solution for cloud computing.
Enterprise access networks must be architected with Carrier Ethernet solutions to deliver 99.999% availability, flow-level SLA management, end-end OAM, wire-speed performance and 50ms protection switching. These networks must also cost significantly less than SONET/SDH, enable massive Ethernet scaling and continue to support high performance DS1/E1 for legacy voice, data and private line applications.
Mobile backhaul and enterprise access networks must be architected with Carrier Ethernet solutions to deliver 99.999% availability, 50ms protection switching, flow-level SLA management, end-end OAM, performance and resiliency. These networks must also cost significantly less than SONET/SDH, enable massive Ethernet scaling and continue to support highperformance DS1/E1 for 2G mobile and private line applications.
Frost & Sullivan’s “Successful Product and Sales Strategy Strengthens Ethernet in the First Mile over Copper (EFMCu)” market position paper addresses two key objectives. First, we will briefly discuss the EFMCu market, addressing key factors driving the market, as well as challenges faced by equipment vendors. Second, we highlight Hatteras Networks’ solution and product differentiation in the Ethernet in the First Mile market. Specific to the EFMCu market, this paper examines the market share advantage gained by Hatteras Networks based on several important factors, including its Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) partnerships.
ITU G.8032 is a technology game-changer – delivering the cost and Ethernet services advantages of a Carrier Ethernet infrastructure with standardsbased 50ms protection switching.
Customers require 50ms protection switching for their high-performance Carrier Ethernet applications. Overture Networks developed a G.8032 Ethernet Ring solution to not only meet, but to significantly beat this requirement. Overture configured a battery of real-world network scenarios to measure protection switching time. The results provide proof that Overture's G.8032 solution sets a new standard for protection switching.
The “Mid-Band Ethernet Services Handbook” is designed to help Carriers and Service Providers with service definition to significantly grow their top-line revenue through the deployment of Mid-Band Ethernet Services, hitting the service sweet spot between 2 and 20Mbps. Mid-Band Ethernet is an emerging market that will double the addressable Metro Ethernet port forecast over the next 5 years.
Ethernet Mobile Backhaul scores a perfect 10 with 10x the bandwidth at 1/10th the cost. Tap into a better way to backhaul the rising tide of mobile data with resilient, reliable and flexible Ethernet backhaul solutions from Overture. Don’t settle for less than great.
Driven by their low cost, affordable bandwidth and their scalability, Ethernet services are growing rapidly and are also now reaching critical market mass. Two major factors are still preventing a complete adoption of Carrier Ethernet: service availability and service reliability. Needless to say, the latter strongly influences the former. Indeed, without any means of measuring network performance, Service Level Agreements (SLA) cannot be guaranteed from one end to the other end. Network performance, and SLA verification in particular, is even more important when considering the growth of demand in IP-based services such as Voice over IP (VoIP), Video over IP and Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) which require very low latency (delay) and jitter (delay variation). Without SLA verification tools, there is no good way to guarantee an end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS).
Service providers today find a growing number of their edge routers have reached retirement age as the combined factors of diminished product support, lack of spares, high operational costs and missing features take their toll. But what is the best replacement strategy for some of these legacy edge routers?
The "Selling Mid-Band Ethernet Services" handbook is a guide for Service Providers on how to sell and position Mid-Band Services. This handbook highlights different opportunities available with the implementation of Mid-Band Ethernet services across industries as diverse as finance and health care or retail and legal services.
This white paper explores the issues that mobile operators face as they move from T1/E1 backhaul to Ethernet backhaul and introduces BFP (Big Flexible Pipe), a major technology innovation in ultra efficient transport of native TDM voice, native Ethernet and T1/E1 quality timing. The paper’s content will illustrate how BFP delivers T1/E1 quality voice and timing performance with greater resiliency and reliability than T1/E1s while delivering 10x More Bandwidth at 1/10th the cost over bonded copper pairs.
The Overture 4200/4300 Series is designed from the ground up for carrier infrastructure applications...delivering the 99.999% availability required by carriers.
Service providers increasingly see their off-net success determined by their ability to leverage wholesale Ethernet. Wholesale Ethernet allows service providers to grow their footprint, shorten turn-up time and expand service offerings. But what are the success factors that the early adopters of wholesale Ethernet have learned?
“The Mid-Band Ethernet Technology Handbook: IEEE 802.ah EFM 2BASE-TL for Executives,” is a must read for telecom decision makers that need to understand not only the technology, but the market potential for Ethernet over copper solutions, and why so many carriers are already deploying the Hatteras solution and improving their bottom-line.
In August 2010, Carrier Ethernet News (www.CarrierEthernetNews.com) conducted a survey of its service provider readers to understand the features and capabilities they believed important in differentiating their services from their competitors. 110 representatives from service providers responded to the survey. This document describes the results of this survey and its key findings.
