Carrier-grade Ethernet / Ethernet for Carrier Networks
This page will provide information about "Carrier-grade Ethernet", its technical trends, producers of components and devices as
well as name references to current deployments.
Gigabit Ethernet and 10GE are widely deployed and seem to take over the role for future WAN connections. Because of the need to combine
10GE links, there is a need for even higher transmission speeds. Voice over IP and IP-TV is mostly carried in ethernet networks, so
why not use Ethernet on Metro and WAN links too?
WAN connections are typically scalled in time 4 scale, which means that 40 Gbps would be the successor of a 10 Gbps regime.
Ethernet, however, has scaled by 10 so far and the majority has called to stick to this scaling in the future.
The IEEE therefore decided to step to 100 Gbps Ethernet for the next ethernet standard to be worked on.
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