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Cisco Knowledge Network:

The Network After SONET

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Introduction• Welcome – Moderator(s):

Dale Clark - Strategic Account Manager

• Today’s Show: The Network After SONET

Speaker(s):

Russ Esmacher - Business Development Mgr.

Special Guest:

Trevor Bidle - US Signal, VP of Engineering

Q&A

• Survey

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The Network After SONET

Russ Esmacher

Sr. Manager, Business Development

United States Service Provider

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Worldwide Total Ethernet Market Place

35bn

30bn

25bn

20bn

15bn

10bn

5bn

Wholesale and retail Ethernet services : EPL, EVPL, ETREE, E-LAN, EV-PLAN

~90% of Ethernet market place <1GE in 2013Source Infonetics 2009

NeedAggregation

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How to Deliver the Service?How many networks have been built to deliver the services?

TDM = SONET

Ethernet in Last mile = Ethernet over Cu

Ethernet/VPLS = Switching

Wavelengths = DWDM

IPVPN = Routing

Is this Fast? How many boxes to make this work? How about the OpEx?

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“In the Beginning” Voice and Dial-Up Ruled

Business

Legacy

Utility

Business

Business

Business

Business

Year Service SpeedMetro

Technology

2000T1: 1.5MbT3: 45Mb

Voice Dial-Up

SONET MSPP

OC-48 SONET48 x T3

1440 x T1 (via M13)

34K x DS-0

3/1/0 DCS

3/3 DCS

Router

OC-12

OC-n

T1

Key Features

A-Z Provisioning Small Chassis Easy to Use GUI 50ms Protection

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Then Ethernet Arrived……..

Business

Legacy

Utility

Business

Business

Business

Business

Year Service SpeedMetro

Technology

2002“Ethernet Arrives”

T1: 1.5MbT3: 45MbFE: 100M

GE: 1000M

Voice Dial-UpInternet

SONET MSPP

OC-192 SONET192 x T3

5760 x T1 (via M13)

100 x FE8 x GbE

3/1/0 DCS

3/3 DCS

Router

OC-12

OC-n

GbE

Key Features

A-Z Provisioning Small Chassis Easy to Use GUI 4 x OC-192 EPL and L2

EthernetoSONET

Challenges Rigid SONET mapping to Ethernet Mapping GigE to SONET 20% Inefficient 10Gb SONET Limit per Ring

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