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Terminology .................................................................................................................................................. 1 4. Scope ............................................................................................................................................................. 2 4.1 Changes from MEF 6.1 ........................................................................................................................... 2 5. Compliance Levels ........................................................................................................................................ 3 6. Numerical Prefix Conventions ...................................................................................................................... 4 7. Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 4 8. Ethernet Service Definition Framework (Normative) .................................................................................. 6 8.1 Common Service Attributes for all Service Types .................................................................................... 7 8.2 Per UNI Attributes .................................................................................................................................. 8 8.2.1 Token Share ....................................................................................................................... 8 8.2.2 Values for per UNI Attributes ............................................................................................. 9 8.3 EVC Per UNI Attributes ........................................................................................................................ 13 8.4 Per EVC Attributes ............................................................................................................................... 17 9. Ethernet Service Types ............................................................................................................................... 18 9.1 Ethernet Line (E-Line) Service Type ..................................................................................................... 19 9.2 Ethernet LAN (E-LAN) Service Type .................................................................................................... 19 9.3 Ethernet Tree (E-Tree) Service Type ..................................................................................................... 20 10. Service Definitions (Normative) .............................................................................................................. 22 10.1 Ethernet Private Line Service ................................................................................................................ 22 10.2 Ethernet Virtual Private Line Service ..................................................................................................... 24 10.3 Ethernet Private LAN Service................................................................................................................ 27 10.4 Ethernet Virtual Private LAN Service .................................................................................................... 29 10.5 Ethernet Private Tree Service ................................................................................................................ 31 10.6 Ethernet Virtual Private Tree Service ..................................................................................................... 33 11. References ............................................................................................................................................... 36 Appendix A. Practical Examples of Ethernet Services (Informative) .......................................................... 37 A.1. Example: A Transport-oriented Ethernet Private Line (EPL) Service for Private Data Networking. ......... 39 A.2. Example: A Packet-oriented Ethernet Private Line Service for Public Data Networking ......................... 43 A.3. Example: Ethernet Private Tree (EP-Tree) Service for Video Broadcast ................................................. 49 A.4. Example: Distance Learning (EVP-Tree) and Business Data (EVP-LAN) .............................................. 54 Appendix B. Backwards Compatibility to MEF 6.1 Service ........................................................................ 60 Appendix C. Attribute Tables per Service .................................................................................................... 67 C.1. UNI Service Attributes for all Services .................................................................................................. 67 C.2. EVC Per UNI Service Attributes for all Services.................................................................................... 68 C.3. EVC Service Attributes for all Services ................................................................................................. 69 List of Figures MEF 6.2 © The MEF Forum 2014. Any reproduction of this document, or any portion thereof, shall Page i contain the following statement: "Reproduced with permission of the MEF Forum." No user of this document is authorized to modify any of the information contained herein. EVC Ethernet Services Definitions Phase 3 Figure 1: UNI with Services from a Service Provider .............................................................................................. 5 Figure 2: Subscriber’s view of EVP-LAN Service ................................................................................................... 6 Figure 3: Ethernet Service Definition Framework................................................................................................... 6 Figure 4: Structure of Attribute Tables .................................................................................................................... 8 Figure 5: E-Line Service Type using Point-to-Point EVC ..................................................................................... 19 Figure 6: E-LAN Service Type using Multipoint-to-Multipoint EVC .................................................................... 20 Figure 7: E-Tree Service Type using Rooted-Multipoint EVC .............................................................................. 21 Figure 8: E-Tree Service Type using Multiple Roots ............................................................................................ 21 Figure 9: Typical Use Case of multiple EVPL Services ......................................................................................... 25 Figure 10: Ethernet Virtual Private Line Service ................................................................................................... 25 Figure 11: Ethernet Virtual Private LAN (EVP-LAN) Service ............................................................................