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To: GraceZ who wrote (1689)	12/15/2000 2:32:43 PM
From: Techplayer	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 2249

Grace, You missed my point. Competitors of SCMR are willing to play the game with the BOCs. For SCMR to believe that theirs is the only solution and that their standards will become industry standards is laughable. The ODSI has already been defeated on a couple of important issues (MPLS for instance). I am not arguing that it is in the best interest of the carriers to support ancient standards. I happen to believe that changing the opinion of the BOCs on network standards is like moving an iceberg with a tugboat. SCMR could be selling more equipment to carriers with real needs and real money now if they spent a small amount of money to become certified to do so. tp

To: GraceZ who wrote (1689)	12/18/2000 9:48:28 PM
From: ahhaha	Respond to of 2249

Anent to mesh granularity refined by gigernet: EtherApps Scott Clavenna, www.lightreading.com 11/12/00 Metro Ethernet networks are designed to do much more than provide cheap Internet access. That’s just a way in the door. The real value, and the lasting revenue stream for new “EtherLECs,” will be value-added services support. With the arrival of 10-gigabit Ethernet in 2001, the range of applications for metro Ethernet networks is theoretically all of them, though true multiservice support may be longer in coming than most vendors would have us believe. Early applications will be those that require efficient low-cost transport of IP data among multiple sites in a metro. These “interPOP” applications will consist of interconnecting data centers, colocation facilities, cable data headends, and carrier data POPs. In these cases, 10-gigabit Ethernet switches will aggregate multiple gigabit Ethernet streams from data equipment and provide the lowest-cost transport possible in a metro. This will create stiff competition to metro DWDM (dense wavelength-division multiplexing) players and OC192 Sonet, as the price/performance ratio can’t be beat. More advanced applications will require multiservice capabilities. That’s where true metro optical Ethernet will prove its mettle. These applications will include: EtherVPNs Virtual private networks continue to be touted as the next wave in metro networking, but provisioning these remains a challenge for service providers. It often comes down to cheap, flexible bandwidth, which is in short supply in today’s networks. Some of the metro Ethernet vendors propose setting up secure VLANs in the metro, all provisioned and managed easily over a distributed packet switch architecture. In the Lantern solution, for example, thousands of VLANs can be supported on a single ring, giving operators a great deal of flexibility in assigning and prioritizing bandwidth to customers. ASP access Application service providers today have a difficult time keeping customers. It’s not their fault, they claim; it’s the network’s. ASPs need high bandwidth connectivity with their customers at low costs. They also need flexible network infrastructures that respond with a high degree of agility to shifting customer usage patterns. Metro Ethernet may do a much better job than today’s hard-wired private lines. SSP access Much the same as the ASP, the storage service provider requires high-speed connections between customers and server farms, with very low bit-error rates. Gigabit Ethernet is becoming a popular SAN (storage area network) protocol, and metro Ethernet networks could easily connect their customers with data warehouses, disaster recovery centers, and hosting centers. Real-time monitoring and provisioning Consider this example from Riverstone Networks. A company holding a one-hour Web-based videoconference might need extra bandwidth for that purpose. To obtain the additional bandwidth, the company’s network manager uses the service provider’s Web-based self-provisioning interface to enter a request, and within seconds the bandwidth is provided. After the teleconference is over, the bandwidth automatically scales back down to the customer’s normal allocation. Or a company network administrator can use a self-provisioning interface to turn up varying levels of bandwidth for individual applications, offices, or VPN connections.