MEF Carrier Ethernet 2.0 Certification

Description

The course progresses from a overview of the Carrier
Ethernet service and how it works onto looking at the
concepts in depth. Service attributes and management
follow with the course finishing with studies of practical
Carrier Ethernet.

What will you learn

MEF Carrier Ethernet training course details

Anyone working with Carrier Ethernet

The course attendees need to be conversant with data networks, as well as Ethernet and IP technologies.

5 days

What is Carrier
Ethernet? Evolution, advantages, The MEF, MEF
specifications; UNI, EVC, OVC, EPL/EVPL, EP-LAN/
EVP-LAN, EP-Tree/EVP-Tree, etc, overview.

Service Frame Handling.
Carrier Ethernet at Customer Premises, metro and core.
Carrier Ethernet Workings, UNI attributes, Service
Attributes (EVC and EVC per UNI attributes), Bandwidth
Profiles, service multiplexing, L2 protocol processing;
Carrier Ethernet equipment, CPE, aggregation and
homing nodes, core equipment; management systems.

Step 1:

Choose service type, EPL/EVPL, EP-LAN/EVP-LAN, EPTree/EVP-Tree, EVLine...;
Step 2:
CPE tasks, UNI-C
tasks (UNI attributes, service attributes (EVC and EVC
per UNI) and bandwidth profiles), UNI-N tasks (L2
protocol handling).
Step 3:
Non-CPE tasks, Access,
metro and core connections set up.

UNI, UNI I & II,
UNI-N and UNI-C, etc.; NNI/ENNI; EVC; OVC, OVC type
(P2P, M2M, Rooted MP), OVC end point (root, leaf,
trunk), OVC end point map, OVC end point bundling;
Service types in detail, EPL/EVPL, EP-LAN/EVP-LAN,
EP-Tree/EVP-Tree, EVLine, Access EPL, Access EVPL .

Unicast,
multicast and broadcast frame delivery, Tagged,
untagged and priority; Tagging, C and S-Tags, 802.3,
802.1d, 802.1q, 802.1ad, 802.1ah evolution, VLAN ID
translation/preservation. CoS preservation.

MTU, MTU at
UNI, MTU at ENNI; Physical Layer Attributes, FE, GbE
and 10GbE, Service Multiplexing and Bundling Concept
and detail, rules and implications; Hairpin Switching

Token Bucket Algorithm, EIR, CIR, CBS, EBS, Coupling
Flag; Frame Colors, recoloring, Color Awareness
attribute, Color Forwarding; Bandwidth Profiles, rules and
concepts. MEF CoS identifiers, DEI bit (in S-Tag), PCP
bit (in C-Tag or S-Tag), or DSCP (in IP header), Multiflow bandwidth concepts; CoS Label/Color Identification.

Overview: Carrier Ethernet 2.0; Blueprint C
Service Attributes: Per UNI, Physical interfaces,
Frame format, Ingress/egress Bandwidth Profiles, CEVLAN ID/EVC Map, UNI protection. EVC per UNI,
Ingress/egress Bandwidth Profiles, etc.; Per EVC, CEVLAN ID Preservation, CoS ID Preservation,
Relationship between SLA and SLP, Class of Service,
etc. OVC, ENNI, OVC End Point per UNI and OVC End
Point per ENNI, Ingress/egress bandwidth profiles, etc.

Overview: MEF Service Lifecycle.Carrier Ethernet maintenance: Port, Link & NE failure,
Service Protection Technologies, Fault Identification
and Recovery, LAG, Active/Standby EVC, Single EVC with transport protection, G.8031, G.8032, MPLS FRR.

Connectivity fault management, connectivity
Monitoring, Loopback, Linktrace; Performance
Management, Frame Delay, Inter Frame Delay
Variation, Availability, Frame Loss Ratio, Resiliency,
HLI, DMM, DMR, SLM, SLR; Key Concepts, Single vs
dual ended, ordered UNI pair calculations.

Link discovery, link monitoring, etc.

MEG levels, MIPs.

Carrier Ethernet Transport Technologies:Layer 1: SDH. Layer 2: Bridging, provider bridging, PBB, PBBTE. Layer 2.5: MPLS VPWS, MPLS VPLS, MPLS-TP.

fiber, SDH,
active fiber, PON, GPON, 10G PON, OTN, WDM; copper, PDH, G-SDSL, 10Pass-TS, HFC; packet radio.

Key challenges solutions: Market pressure, LTE
evolution, elements and architecture (RAN BS, NC,
GWIF.), synchronization, bandwidth management.

Purpose, needs and
applications. Synchronization: Phased, ToD, External
Reference source, SynchE ,NTP, IEEE-1588 v2/ PTP,
ACR; MEF Service Definitions for emulated circuits.

Practical examples and
scenarios, Carrier Ethernet solutions; Practice
Scenarios, Given a scenario, determine appropriate
Ethernet services