• Carrier Ethernet – the Technology of Choice for Access Networks (Word 4.8Mb)
• Metro Ethernet Networks - A Technical Overview (PDF 500Kb)
• Metro Ethernet Services - A Technical Overview (PDF 1.33Mb)
• Bandwidth Profiles for Ethernet Services (PDF)
• Introduction to Circuit Emulation Services over Ethernet (CESoE) (PDF)

• The Metro Ethernet Network - Comparison to Legacy SONET/SDH MANs for Metro Data Service Providers (PDF 286Kb)
• Metro Ethernet Business Services Case Study for a Service Provider
• Mobile Backhaul Evolves with Carrier Ethernet, Nortel WP
• Provider Backbone Transport, Nortel WP

• Optimizing Metro Ethernet, Nortel PPT
• An introduction to Resilient Packet Rings WP, Nortel, 2007
• Transforming the network for advanced broadband services WP, Nortel, 2006

• Ethernet Protection Switched Rings
  Creating the Survivable Ethernet Network, Allied Telesis
• EPSR, Allied Telesis
• EAPS, Extreme Networks
• Ethernet protection switching, ITU G.8031/Y.1342 (06/06)
• Ethernet protection switching, ITU G.8031/Y.1342 (2006) Amendment 1 (10/07)

• Carrier Ethernet
• Cisco IP Next-Generation Network Carrier Ethernet Design Solutions Overview, Brochure
• IP NGN Carrier Ethernet Design: Powering the Connected Life in the Zettabyte Era, Cisco WP
• Ethernet Access for Next Generation Metro and Wide Area Networks
   

IP NGN Carrier Ethernet Design, Cisco

Evolution of Ethernet Hierarchy

• Ethernet in the First Mile Overview
• Ethernet First Mile over Fiber (EFMF)
• Ethernet First Mile over Copper (EFMC)
• Ethernet First Mile over Passive Optical Networks (EFMP)
• Ethernet First Mile Operation, Administration, and Maintenance Overview

¹Reproduced with permission of the Metro Ethernet Forum.