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Moderator SummaryEthernet Protection Summary

Ghani Abbas, Ericsson – ITU-T SG15 vice chair

Steve Haddock – IEEE 802.1 Interworking chair

Glenn Parsons, Ericsson – IEEE 802.1 vice chair

Joint IEEE-SA and ITU Workshop on Ethernet

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IEEE 802.1AX LAG is being revised to provide node and link redundancy, address dual-homed interconnects, and congruent per-service traffic distribution. Expected Standards 1H2014New Project p802.1CB started to identify and replicate frames and eliminate these frames in seamless protection schemeNew project p802.1 Qca -Path Control and Reservation (PCR) started. It leverages SPB for explicit Path establishment as well as reservation and redundancy

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G.Supplement 52 for G.8032 was approved. It provides scenarios for:

- Ethernet services support- Ring interconnections- Network applications and use cases

New work G.mdsp provides protection interworking for UNI/NNI network scenarios using ITU approved protection schemes (OTN and Ethernet)MECP is under study. It addresses protection

of single rooted-multipoint (RMP) Ethernet connections in Ethernet transport networks.

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