Resilient ethernet ring for metropolitan area networks

• Published in: The Ninth International Conference onCommunications Systems, 2004. ICCS 2004 pp. 316 - 320
• Main Authors: Lian, Ziwen, Zhong, Wen-De, Kumar Bose, S., Wang, Yixin
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2004
• Subjects: Bandwidth; Computer architecture; Costs; Ethernet networks; Metropolitan area networks; Network topology; Protocols; SONET; Switches; Telecommunication traffic

This paper presents a new resilient Ethernet ring (RER) approach to allow the Ethernet to be operated in ring topologies for transporting data in metropolitan area networks (MANs). Developed based on standard Ethernet datalink switching technology, RER is simple and data-efficient. The ring topology...