Multi-service Ethernet supports business services, residential services, packet backhaul, and TDM over Ethernet over a single transport infrastructure.

By combining a comprehensive set of OAM features and HVPLS capabilities, the network can support:

• Virtually unlimited number of services using MPLS
  
  
• End-to-end service assurance
• A more deterministic, low latency
  network
  
  
• Intelligence in the edge to offload
  the core
  
  
• Multiple redundancy technologies
  
  
• Ethernet and MPLS transport protocols
  
  
• Robust service management