Major Challenge for deploying Ethernet in metro area networks is to guarantee the quality of
service and traffic engineering requirements. In the literature, there are many forwarding …

Providing diverse broadband services economically at all time with high quality of services
will be a major challenge for the telecommunication community. Accordingly, this imposes …

Ethernet has been one of the most influential technologies for local area networks (LANs)
and is now getting ready for deployment in metropolitan and wide area networks. Activities …

The most common technology in local area networks is the Ethernet protocol. The continuing
evolution of Ethernet has propelled it into the scope of metropolitan area networks. Even …

Current Ethernet technology relies on Spanning Tree Protocol (STP). As the name suggests,
STP creates a spanning tree within a network of connected layer-2 Ethernet switches, and …

The economics and familiarity of Ethernet technology is motivating the vision of wide-scale
adoption of Metro Ethernet Networks (MEN). Despite the progress made by the community …

The significant advancement of Ethernet technology is pushing Ethernet from the local area
network environment to metropolitan and wide area network environments. This paper …

Ethernet is turning out to be a cost-effective solution for building cluster networks offering
compatibility, simplicity, high bandwidth, scalability and a good performance-to-cost ratio …

Ethernet networks rely on the so-called spanning tree protocol (STP) in order to prevent
loops. This protocol imposes a severe penalty on the performance and scalability of Metro …

Ethernet has grown from its roots in the home and office environment to contend in
previously uncharted territory of MANs and WANs. However, deploying Ethernet in MAN …