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MEF-CECP Exam Preparation Course Outline
Introduction
• About the MEF
• About Carrier Ethernet
• Carrier Ethernet versus Ethernet
• MEF’s Five Attributes of Carrier Ethernet
• Getting Started
• Explore the MEF Website
• About the MEF-CECP Exam
MEF Services
• Fundamental Components and Reference Models
• Basic Reference Model
• UNI Functionality
• General Reference Model
• Service Multiplexing
• Assigning Ethernet Frames to EVCs
• Service Frames
• CE-VLAN ID
• Bundling
• Bundling versus Service Multiplexing
• Port-Based versus VLAN-Based Services
• EPL Service
• EVPL Service
• EP-LAN Service
• EVP-LAN Service
• EP-Tree Service
• EVP-Tree Service
How MEF Services are Dened (Part 1)
• Categories of Carrier Ethernet Service Attributes
• Bird’s-Eye View of Service Attributes
• Groups of Related Service Attributes
• The Carrier Ethernet Service Denition Framework
• Basic/Bookkeeping Service Attributes
• MTU Size Service Attributes
• Service Multiplexing, Bundling, and VLAN Tag Preservation Service
Attributes
• Service Frame Mapping Service Attributes
• Service Frame Delivery Service Attributes
• Service Frames
• Types of Service Frames
• Service Frame Disposition
• Service Frame Transparency Requirement
• Data Service Frame Delivery Service Attributes
• L2CP Processing Service Attributes
• How the Two L2CP Processing Attributes Work Together
• Per Protocol, Service-Specic L2CP Processing Requirements
How MEF Services are Dened (Part 2)
• The MEF Service Agreement Framework (SLA and SLS)
• Trafc Management and QoS
• The Multi CoS Framework
• CoS Identication
• Bandwidth Proles
• The Bandwidth Prole Algorithm
• Visualizing the Token Bucket Algorithm
• Explaining the Bandwidth Prole Algorithm
• Single-Rate versus Dual-Rate Bandwidth Prole Implementations
• EVC Performance Service Attribute
• Ordered UNI Pair
• Frame Delay Performance
• Frame Delay Variation Performance
• Frame Loss Ratio Performance
• Availability Performance
• Example of EVC Performance Attribute Specication
UNI Requirements
• Overview
• MEF Specications and UNI Functionality
• Type 1 and Type 2 UNIs
• Type 2 UNI Requirements
• SOAM Requirement for Type 2 UNIs
• Enhanced UNI Attributes Requirement for Type 2 UNIs
• L2CP Handling Requirement for Type 2 UNIs
• LOAM Requirement for Type 2.2 UNIs
• E-LMI Requirement for Type 2.2 UNIs
• Link Protection Requirement for Type 2.2 UNIs
Extending MEF Services over Multiple Operator MENs
• Introduction
• Terminology
• Service Provider and Operators
• ENNI and ENNI-N
• OVC
• OVC End Point
• Ingress and Egress ENNI Frames
• Hairpin Switch
• Service Handoff at ENNI
• IEEE 802.1ad Ethernet Frames
• Encoding Information in S-Tags
• ENNI Tagging Requirements
• Operator Service Attributes
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