Library of Congress Control Number: 2006921777

ISBN 0-387-24062-4
e-ISBN 0-387-24063-2
ISBN 978-0-387-24062-6

"The materials in Chapters 10 and 12 have been reproduced by Springer with the permission of Cisco Systems, Inc. COPYRIGHT 2006 CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED"

All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now know or hereafter developed is forbidden.

The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks and similar terms, even if the are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights.

9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

springer.com

Dedication

This book is dedicated to my wife Sameema, my family and friends and all the folks who have spent countless hours developing networking standards

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank ITU-T, Metro Ethernet Forum and Optical Internetworking Forum for allowing us to use appropriate information from their respective standards and the implementation agreements.

Contributing Authors

Ghani Abbas has spent over fifteen years in the SDH and Optical Networks business, initially...