BUSINESS AND TECHNICAL CASE STUDIES

Enterprise Business Case Study: "Chicago Mercantile Exchange." This video case study describes how the worlds highest volume exchange (12 x NYSE and NASDAQ combined!) is breaking new ground by using Carrier Ethernet. 5/08 Please click here for links to video cases studies on

Enterprise Business Case Study: "Virginia Mason Medical Center" This video case study describes how dramatic changes in the technology of digital imaging and delivery using Carrier Ethernet is impacting patients. 5/08 Please click here for links to video cases studies on

Enterprise Business Case Study: "New York Law School" This video case study describes how an installation of Carrier Ethernet met an "impossible" implementation deadline and is opening up new applications. 5/08 Please click here for links to video cases studies on

Enterprise Business Case Study: "Bergen County ." This video show how Carrier Ethernet is saving costs while increasing bandwidth for thousands of students. 5/08 Please click here for links to video cases studies on

Service Provider Business Case Study: "Leveraging Carrier Ethernet for Wireless Backhaul" February 2008. Document Summary. Carrier Ethernet provides scale, reach, control, reliability, performance guarantees, bandwidth on demand, CoS, QoS, time to market, risk mitigation, predictability & ease of implementation.  Metro Ethernet’s characteristics and reliability are similar to traditional carrier transport technologies like SONET.  It surpasses traditional architectures in that the edge terminations scale easily and the economic model for service delivery proves itself time and time again..

Service Provider Business Case Study: Asia Pacific Operating Expenditures English version (PDF 430Kb) Japanese version (PDF 715Kb) September 2004. Document Summary: The Metro Ethernet Forum worked with 18 service providers across Asia to identify actual OpEx savings for Metro Ethernet services compared to legacy Private Line, Frame Relay and ATM services. The results provide a detailed picture of the actual individual steps required to deliver a single data service to an enterprise customer and then monitor that service. Additionally, they provide not only a model for accurately tracking OpEx cost, but clearly identify cost savings for Metro Ethernet that can continue to grow over time. The full 54 page report of this study is available exclusively to MEF member companies. For additional information about joining the MEF and receiving member benefits such as this report visit our Member Benefits page.

Executive Summary: North American and European Service Provider Business Case Study: Operating Expenditures(PDF 330Kb) January 2004. Document Summary: The Metro Ethernet Forum worked with 36 service providers to identify actual OpEx savings for Metro Ethernet services compared to legacy Private Line, Frame Relay and ATM services. The results provided an impressive detailed picture of the actual individual steps required to deliver a single data service to an enterprise customer and then monitor that service. The results provided not only a model for accurately tracking OpEx cost, but clearly identified cost savings for Metro Ethernet that continue to grow over time. The full 64 page report of this study is available exclusively to MEF member companies. For additional information about joining the MEF and receiving member benefits such as this report visit our Member Benefits page.

The Metro Ethernet Network - Comparison to Legacy SONET/SDH MANs for Metro Data Service Providers (PDF 286Kb)   July 2003. Summary: This paper focuses on the results of a study commissioned by the MEF to quantify how Ethernet-over-fiber and next-generation SONET/SDH-based architectures afford the operational simplicity, data transport efficiency, and scalability required to offer service providers a superior return on investment (ROI). The study finds that the Ethernet based service solutions provide a 49 percent operational expense and 39 percent capital expense savings as compared to legacy SONET/SDH solutions. Lastly, this paper offers explores how service providers can increase service revenue by offering a comprehensive suite of flexible, granular, and affordable metro Ethernet services easily tailored to meet the dynamic requirements of enterprise customers.