Webinar with sound of the difference between Enterprise and Carrier Ethernet switches

1. Critical Requirements of Carrier Ethernet vs. Enterprise Ethernet Webinar Series September 2008

2. Carrier Ethernet Silicon Battleground Enterprise Ethernet Silicon Market Mainstream Carrier Ethernet Silicon Market Network Scalability OAM & QoS Statistics Circuits Carrier Standards Price Mass Market Simplicity Port Density Basic Standards Hardware Driven Service Driven Early FEATURES Volume ASSP Volume ASSP Very Different Features Very Different Business Models uP/FPGA’s NPU’s Replaced in Volume Markets

3. Lets dive into the differences … Feature/Function Enterprise Ethernet Silicon (Typical) Carrier Ethernet Silicon Network Scalability 16K MAC Addresses 4K VLANs (per switch) 128K MAC Addresses >80K VLANS (per switch) >1 Million Service Instances 16K Pseudowires OAM Support None (or in software which is slow …) 802.1ag (CFM) >1000 services @ 3.3ms 802.3ah (EFM) ITU Y.1731 (MPLS) QoS Minimal CIR & EIR Profiles Packet “Re-coloring” Protection & Statistics <25K counters typical Failover in seconds 250K counters/statistics <50ms failover rate Carrier Standards Compliance PB (802.1ad) (Q-in-Q) PBB (802.1ah) (Mac-in-Mac) PBB-TE (802.Qay) VPLS (RFC4762)

4. Debates Shaping the Market Carrier Ethernet Switching Challenges

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