Carrier Ethernet technology can and is being used in a number of transport and infrastructure applications where its reliability, flexibility and scalability combine to address network operator and service provider challenges. In this section, we highlight several that have been particularly successful for our customers.

SONET/SDH Displacement with resilient Ethernet rings (G.8032)
ITU G.8032 defines the multi-node ring protection architecture for native Ethernet  networks. This standard describes the application, technology, performance characteristics and requirements of a G.8032 ring.

G.8032 is a technology game-changer as it provides the standards-based method of delivering high-performance Carrier Ethernet services over a multi-node ring with 50ms protection switching. This is important as carriers want to move away from SONET/SDH to a native Ethernet based infrastructure, but do not want to give up standards-based 50ms switching and 99.999% reliability.

Solutions from Overture Networks operate rings at 1 Gbps and 10 Gbps and perform protection switching far faster than the 50ms standard requires.  Click here to read more