Public Ethernet connection management systems for IP access networks

Abstract

Public Ethernet is a new definition for a broadband access environment and it is the natural evolution and enabler of universal broadband services by combining cost-effective proven Ethernet technology and reliable public network characteristics. In this paper we present an Ethernet connection manager (ECM) that supports the deployment of customer services across the Ethernet access networks. ECM removes the need of manual configuration of low-level parameters into access networks for virtual local area network (VLAN) setup by provisioning the VLAN tags, link bandwidth, and IEEE 802.1p markings for quality of service (QoS) profiles. To verify the performance and scalability issues on deploying several hundreds or even thousands of network elements, a set of tests were performed using a simulated network to determine the average time to deploy a service. As expected the time to provision the services increases as the number of records within the database increases.