In my experience MEF related products are very popular with oldschool PSTN operators and big cellular carrier, less so with ISPs that do 100% IP. You can sell an Ethernet tunnel over MPLS just as well.
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Mark Radabaugh via Af <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is where the majority of large carriers are going: > > http://metroethernetforum.org/carrier-ethernet/carrier-ethernet-services > > If you are buying (or selling) services to any of the larger carriers you > are likely seeing MEF standards in use - Ethernet Virtual Connections, NNI > and UNI interfaces. > > There are a lot of really nice features in MEF that allow you to sell > protocol independent Ethernet across your network or across multiple > networks. Something like a point to point where Time Warner is one end and > your customer is on the other end. Or a PMP type of arrangement where 2 > customers are on Comcast, 3 are on AT&T, and 4 are your wireless > customers. To the customer it just appears as if the 9 sites are > connected via an Ethernet switch and you don't care in the least what > addressing or protocols they run. > > If you are selling to any of the cell carriers they expect MEF services > and specifically Y.1731 performance monitoring. This allows you and your > customers to prove that you are actually providing the bandwidth, latency, > jitter, and uptime. > > MEF adds a great deal of monitoring and troubleshooting capability to the > network. It allows you to monitor end to end and within your own network > in order to identify both to you and your partners where a problem exists > and who is responsible for it. > > > -- > Mark Radabaugh > Amplex > > [email protected] 419.837.5015 x 1021 > >
