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CARRIER ETHERNET
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Service Delivering Next-Generation

Provider Business Services

HIGHLIGHTS OVERVIIEW Although these enterprise market trends are

• Enterprises and business users are Service providers are finding that with their creating opportunities for service providers to
demanding increasingly high bandwidth enterprise customers, information and increase enterprise-related service revenues,
and an extremely reliable set of VPN communication systems are the lifeblood of some have found that their current VPN
the organization and essential for providing offerings provide only low-bandwidth service
services from their service providers,
employees and customers the means to delivery and limited Quality of Service (QoS)
to enable them to deliver a rich suite of
conduct business in a highly productive and capabilities, since the current offerings were
voice, video, and business-critical data
reliable manner. Service providers also see built on best-effort IP routing platforms that
applications to their users.
that many of their customers are moving have become obsolete. Customer demand
• Brocade offers next-generation Carrier away from building and managing their own for a full spectrum of access speeds creates
Ethernet Enterprise Solutions for high- networks from Asynchronous Transfer Mode challenges for service providers. These
capacity bandwidth networks. (ATM) and Frame Relay (FR), and leased lines challenges prevent service providers from
to Ethernet-based Layer 2 Virtual Private finding cost-effective ways to satisfy the
• Brocade offers leading-edge enterprise
Network (VPN) and Internet Protocol (IP)-VPN expanded set of enterprise requirements,
services solutions to support high-growth
services, allowing them to cut costs and which include highly scalable and reliable
business services.
focus on their core business. As a result, VPN services that provide QoS and global
enterprises are demanding high bandwidth reach in a timely fashion.
and an extremely reliable set of converged
services from their service providers. Service SOLUTION
providers must be able to offer these The Brocade® Enterprise Services solution
applications, whether or not their users work can help transform service providers’
in large corporate offices, small regional networks into highly scalable and profitable
branch offices, on the road, or at home. solutions. The Brocade solution is comprised

MLX MLX
CES
6910
CES
10G
IP/MPLS
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Regional
Ring
10GbE Metro
Ring
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The Brocade Enterprise Services solution. 6910
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of a next-generation Carrier Ethernet and multitenant building or as a managed and 802.3, which provide remote monitoring
Internet Protocol/Multi-Protocol Label Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) offering and test capabilities to avoid costly truck
Switching (IP/MPLS)-based services portfolio, by the service provider. Service providers rolls. These features include auto discovery,
as well as a comprehensive management that want to offer managed CPE services heartbeat and fault notification messages,
solution for end-to-end management. can utilize the Brocade 6910, which provides link statistics, and remote loopbacks
1 GbE access to businesses, with remote for connectivity fault management and
Benefits of a Brocade Solution monitoring to enable the service provider to performance management over any path.
manage Ethernet Services for the customer. Features such as these ensure that service
Access Services
providers can detect and proactively manage
The Brocade service provider portfolio offers
Quality of Service the measurement of throughput, latency, and
a full range of enterprise services, including
The Brocade portfolio of Enterprise Services frame loss.
MPLS-based IP-VPN, Ethernet Layer 2 VPN,
solutions supports advanced QoS features to
and Internet access. This allows service Brocade Enterprise Services
ensure that service providers can deliver key
providers to deliver a consistent set of The Brocade Enterprise Services solution
service differentiation and supported SLAs.
feature-rich services on a converged network. plays a vital role in enhancing a service
The product solution supports capabilities
The Brocade 6910 Ethernet Access Switch provider’s business VPN service offering.
such as the use of two-rate, three-color traffic
is optimized for Ethernet-based access It can help service providers gain a bigger
policers. It also supports priority remarking
with connectivity to the Brocade NetIron® piece of a rapidly growing IP Ethernet
to offer a deterministic “hard QoS” capability
CES 2000, CER 2000, and MLX routers, segment within the enterprise data services
that meets business VPN SLAs. The Brocade
which provide market leading port density market. It enables service providers to add
solution includes support for eight hardware
on 10/100 Mbps, 1Gbps, and 10 Gbps new MPLS-based and Ethernet Layer 2 VPN
queues, each with different priority levels,
interface cards. services and expand their IP-VPN services
enabling service providers to sell multitiered
business VPN services and maximize with increased bandwidth, tremendous
Carrier Ethernet Services for the Enterprise scale, expanded reach, and higher reliability
revenue opportunities.
and Business User SLAs. It provides innovative features such as
The Brocade Enterprise Services solution Ethernet and MPLS OAM Support advanced QoS, as well as integrated security
utilizes Carrier Ethernet so that it can It is critical for service providers to have and on-demand capabilities that allow
provide a carrier-class service for enterprise visibility into the network topology and service providers to create differentiation
and business users and support for key network elements in order to validate for their VPN services and opportunities for
applications. These applications include: site operation and performance of the end-to- additional revenue.
to site access, server consolidation, business end network. Brocade provides Ethernet
continuity, disaster recovery, Internet access, For more information about Brocade IP
Operations and Maintenance (OAM) and
and converged networking. The Brocade products, visit www.brocade.com.
MPLS OAM tools, such as Y.1731, 802.1ag,
Enterprise Services solution delivers the
reliability and manageability demanded
MLX
of service providers by enterprise and
business customers. The solution creates a
standardized plug-and-play service through 6910 10G
Ethernet interfaces. The product portfolio GbE Access Regional
Rings IP/MPLS
includes inherent management simplicity

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Ring
and performance advantages that translate
into reduced cost and resource consumption. CES
6910
Service providers can create standardized MLX
Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to connect 6910
MLX
all offices with an efficient profile that
matches the desired granularity of bandwidth Figure 2.
and applications. The Brocade 6910 Access Switch and the Brocade NetIron CES 2000 switch are shown in a
Figure 1 shows Ethernet Business Services typical Metro ring, aggregated by the Brocade MLX router. The ring provides G.8032 protection
being deployed to the edge within a to support mission-critical business applications.

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