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Paper 1: "Leverage the Benefits of a Hardware Based OAM Solution" request a copy
Author: Seamus Daly, Ph.D.
Abstract
Many early implementations of Ethernet OAM have been software based with minimal hardware assist. These software based implementations, while they are a necessary step in the evolution of the technology, cannot provide access to the full set of OAM features. Such software implementations cannot provide the same precision of OAM frame insertion and removal into and from a data stream, as that provided by a typical hardware implementation. Hence, accuracy of KPIs becomes a significant drawback of software OAM implementations.
About the Author
Seamus Daly is a networking professional with over 20 years of networking and telecommunication experience. He holds10 U.S. patents and has worked in a variety of roles including delivering Avici's Systems core router product which was the largest scale, highest performance, widely deployed router in a carrier environment. He now works as an independent consultant.