This book presents applications of MEF’s (Metro Ethernet Forum) Carrier Ethernet architecture and provides insight into building end-to-end systems with third network services like MPLS-TP, VPLS, and PBT. It highlights the pros and cons of lifecycle service orchestration (LSO), virtualization and cloud series for service providers and enterprise network owners.

The book also covers Ethernet protection like automatic protection switching (APS) entities, linear and ring protection and link aggregators. Readers will find chapters on provider bridges (PB) and information modeling along with a detailed overview of pseudowires and multisegment architectures, control planes and multisegment pseudowire setup mechanisms.