What you need to know about Carrier Ethernet

A changing economy cannot always witness a constant growth in any sector. Very few industries have taken a strong place in the market and stood the tests of time. Industry analysts are predicting a great future in - Carrier Ethernet.

History

Carrier Ethernet has become dominant in most Enterprise and Business Networks. It was invented by Bob Metcalfe for the Xerox, Palo Alto laboratories in 1972. It is a fairly simple protocol that has scaled to hundreds of thousands of times faster speeds and consistently been able to adapt to meet the needs and demands of new markets. Ethernet has become the default standard for the LAN. It has been continuously re-inventing itself.

How Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) Started

In 2001, Metro Ethernet Forum was founded as a non-profit industry international consortium to dedicate itself to worldwide adoption of Carrier Ethernet networks and service. The principal concept was to bring the simplicity and cost model of Ethernet to the wide area network.

MEF came up with five key attributes to establish Ethernet in WAN Technologies. The WAN providers should -

Accordingly, MEF came up with this new Carrier Ethernet with the idea of widely understood Ethernet with little training required.

Advantages of Carrier Ethernet

Carrier Ethernet in Today’s Scenario

Ethernet’s ubiquitous presence in the LANs worldwide drives down the cost of Ethernet as a technology. Hence apart from the large enterprises, smaller businesses and start-ups are increasingly adopting this technology wanting to accelerate their sales. Moving forward, analysts described Carrier Ethernet technologies and products as permanent, ingrained, inseparable and growing part of service provider networks. Ethernet is really a family of networking standards that dictates how data should travel across a distance.

MEF celebrates its tenth anniversary this year with nearly 200 worldwide members including telecommunications service providers, cable MSOs, network equipment / software manufacturers, semiconductors vendors and testing organizations.

Not to forget, Global Business today certainly has something to cheer about too.