Presented By:

Sharma Bhavesh L.
Patel Samir C.
 OVERVIEW
Today, optical Ethernet advances promise to take
Ethernet transport to levels undreamed of back then and
not even feasible using copper technologies today.
 This report explores the history and potential of optical
Ethernet technology, focusing specifically on its impact on
service-provider networks and services.
 Optical repeaters were part of the first Ethernet
standard back in the early 1980s.
 TECHNOLOGY

 In 1983, the IEEE 802 Local-Area

Network/Metropolitan-Area Network Standards
Committee (LMSC) released the 802.3 standard
for Ethernet—a shared medium for LANs using a
distributed media access control (MAC)
mechanism called carrier sense multiple
access with collision detection (CSMA/CD).
Ethernet was defined as an open standard in
the early 1980s by a consortium comprised of
Digital Equipment Corp., Intel, and XEROX;
Figure . Ethernet Frame
 HISTORY

The First Optical Ethernet Repeater

Campus Optical Ethernet
Optical Fast Ethernet
Optical Gigabit Ethernet
GBIC modules
 OPTICAL ETHERNET TODAY

 Local Area Network(LAN).

 Campus Area Network(CAN).
 Metropolitan Area Network(MAN).
 Wide Area Network(WAN).
Figure . LAN–CAN–MAN–WAN
 RECENT TREADS

 Optical Ethernet Switches

 GBIC Modules
 Resilient Packet Rings (RPR)
 10-Gigabit Ethernet Proposed
Standards
 10-Gigabit Ethernet May Be Optical
Only
 ADVANTAGES OF OPTICAL ETHERNET

 Optical Ethernet offer high-bandwidth, low-cost,

easy-to-learn and manage alternatives to traditional
time-division multiplexing (TDM) metro
technologies such as SONET (Synchronous Optical
NETwork).
 Optical Ethernet greatly reduces the amount of
both equipment and power needed at scarce
central-office rental property.
 optical Ethernet access and connectivity that
provides a secure, yet manageable, optical
Ethernet demarcation point between the service
provider and business user.
 APPLICATION
1.OPTICAL ETHERNET FOR SERVICE PROVIDER

As a result of ethernet’s expansion into MAN and across the

WAN service providers are looking for ways to provide
connectivity services across the metro bottleneck between
their enterprise customers and the service provider’s
backbone. Nortel networks optical ethernet solution creates
a metro network solution that supports any-to-any services
over a scalable, easy-to-provision, carrier-grade network
 2.OPTICAL ETHERNET FOR
ENTERPRISES
With Nortel networks Optical Ethernet an enterprise can
Break the bandwidth bottleneck by exploiting the
simplicity of ethernet across the MAN and WAN.Optical
ethernet allows businesses to seamlessly expand their
ethernet LANs across the metro backbone and obtain cost
effective network connectivity to enable a set of value
added services and application.
 FUTURE EXPECTATIONS
 Optical Ethernet to the Consumer
 Optical Ethernet Area Networks
 Beyond 10 Gigabits
 Optical Ethernet to the
Consumer

FTTB is a reality for the Fortune 500 today and will be a

reality for 95 percent of non–small office/home office
(SOHO) businesses within just a few years. A carrier that
runs fiber to a business enables the delivery of all of
today’s communications services and, likely, all of
tomorrow’s. And Ethernet services are the least expensive
services that can be provided over that fiber today.
 Optical Ethernet Area
Networks
Large optical Ethernet networks are changing the definition
of the LAN. “Local” might even be “global.” The original
barriers in an Ethernet LAN (3-km span, 1023 nodes, 1 optical
repeater) have long since been vanquished. Today, the
practical limits are more because of the need to terminate
broadcast traffic or to provide security between management
domains, or because of today’s limits to the number of MAC
addresses that an Ethernet switch might support. Note that
VLANs already start to address these issues; and larger
VLAN–enabled switches in the future are at least likely to
control the problems and isolate them for a really large router
to handle
 Beyond 10 Gigabits

Just as the growth of 10-Megabit Ethernet led to the need

for 100-Megabit Fast Ethernet, and just as the growth of
Fast Ethernet led to the need for Gigabit Ethernet, the
growth of Gigabit Ethernet is now driving the market to 10-
Gigabit Ethernet. This trend is not likely to stop anytime
soon. Servers—whether Web servers, file servers, e-
commerce servers, or others—must have greater
bandwidth than the customers they serve, otherwise, those
customers will feel frustrated with inadequate performance
and possibly go elsewhere for service.