Future prospects of Optical Ethernet

The enterprise network includes all the networks that are not telecom operators, and the enterprise network can be subdivided into LAN, metropolitan area network and WAN. Most of the LAN are used to connect the various nodes, and the network card is Ethernet card, so exactly, optical + Ethernet, will be the next generation of IP metropolitan area Network development trend.

By integrating existing urban fibre-optic resources, build a broadband IP metropolitan area network as the backbone of the major Internet operators and community network as the marginal local Internet; On this IP broadband network delivery platform, it will provide e-Government portal service, enterprise LAN interconnection business, interactive business based on multimedia,  Internet Data Center services, so as to form the region's Internet economic service platform, through the establishment of local Internet Exchange Center, so that the Internet operators network can be realized in the local intersection, and thus achieve more effective information transmission and sharing. (Computer science)

The rapid development of enterprise network, not only make the bandwidth and traffic increase rapidly, at the same time, the quality of the network requirements like the public network, has been very high, the same need to build a flexible network to meet the market and the specific needs of customers. Therefore, how to combine the optical and Ethernet to combine the bandwidth and the multiple service functions effectively becomes an important aspect of the construction of the metropolitan area network. Fundamentally speaking, optical Ethernet is the combination and expansion of two existing technologies-Ethernet and optical technology, which makes optical Ethernet have the convenience of Ethernet and the reliability of optical network.

In fact, most of the customers in the network design, because different network parts function differently, you will choose to use two or 3 components to build optical Ethernet, because different customers have different requirements, and 3 components of optical Ethernet (RPR Ethernet, Fiber Ethernet and DWDM Ethernet) can provide this flexibility. Of course, these optical-network components have very high reliability and flexibility. These optical Ethernet components, which can be applied to both public and enterprise networks, can meet the key high value-added services such as packet voice and networked storage of operators, and can satisfy many types of enterprise networks.

At present, optical Ethernet solutions have been listed, and achieved a series of brilliant performance, optical Ethernet network not only to minimize the cost of dedicated optical fiber, greatly saving the cost of network construction, is also changing the service providers and corporate networks. Optical + Ethernet is becoming the mainstream of next generation IP metropolitan area network construction.