Buried amid industry hoopla about end-user gadgets and macroeconomic issues such as upcoming wireless spectrum auctions, an arcane but increasingly vexing niche of the Internet's architecture has become the subject of considerable debate. At stake is carrier Ethernet traffic traversing the globe.
Index Terms:
internet architecture, ethernet, metro links, news
Citation:
Greg Goth, "Major Players Battle over Layers: Layer-2 and Layer-3 Vendors Tussle over Metro Links," IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 7-9, Sep./Oct. 2007, doi:10.1109/MIC.2007.112