Delivering Carrier Ethernet: Extending Ethernet Beyond the LAN

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Understand and evaluate the delivery of Carrier Ethernet using different technologies

Carrier Ethernet is rapidly becoming the de facto platform for offering the next generation of high-bandwidth multimedia applications. Delivering Carrier Ethernet: Extending Ethernet Beyond the LAN provides, for the very first time, an in-depth assessment of the various network solutions that can be used to deliver Carrier Ethernet services. The book is based on extensive real-world deployments and is written by globally renowned experts. A standard solution framework is used consistently throughout to address each underlying technology, its benefits and pitfalls, deployment approaches, ongoing developments, economic assessments, and key vendors promoting the solution. The potential evolution of Carrier Ethernet itself is also considered in detail.

• Copper
  
• HFC (Hybrid Fiber-Coax)
  
• PONs (Passive Optical Networks)
  
• TDM (Time Division Multiplexing)
  
• Fiber and WDM (Wavelength Division Multiplexing)
  
• Optical Wireless Mesh Network/Free Space Optics
  
• SONET (Synchronous Optical NETworking)/MSPP (Multi-Service Provisioning Platform)
  
• RPR (Resilient Packet Ring)
  
• Bridging/Switching
  
• MPLS (MultiProtocol Label Switching)
  
• WiMAX/WiMAC
  

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MICHAEL HOWARDPRINCIPAL CYBERSECURITY ARCHITECTMICROSOFT PUBLIC SECTOR SERVICES

Michael Howard is a principal cybersecurity architect in the Public Sector Services group. Prior to that, he was a principal security program manager on the Trustworthy Computing (TwC) Group’s Security Engineering team at Microsoft, where he was responsible for managing secure design, programming, and testing techniques across the company.

Howard is an architect of the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL), a process for improving the security of Microsoft’s software.

Howard began his career with Microsoft in 1992 at the company’s New Zealand office, working for the first two years with Windows and compilers on the Product Support Services team, and then with Microsoft Consulting Services, where he provided security infrastructure support to customers and assisted in the design of custom solutions and development of software. In 1997, Howard moved to the United States to work for the Windows division on Internet Information Services, Microsoft’s next-generation web server, before moving to his current role in 2000.

Howard is an editor of IEEE Security & Privacy, a frequent speaker at security-related conferences and he regularly publishes articles on secure coding and design, Howard is the co-author of six security books, including the award-winning Writing Secure Code, 19 Deadly Sins of Software Security, The Security Development Lifecycle, Writing Secure Code for Windows Vista and his most recent release 24 Deadly Sins of Software Security.

Greg White (San Antonio, TX), CompTIA Security+, CISSP, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Dr. White is the Director of the Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security at UTSA.

Abdul Kasim is vice president for ethernet business development at ADVA Optical Networking, a global provider of optical and ethernet solutions for metropolitan networks.