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Towards a Service-Driven Metro Network — A Service Provider's Guide for Enabling Metro Business Services
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Self-Test
1. Ethernet connectivity services include point-to-point, point-to-multipoint, and multipoint-to-multipoint services.
a. True
b. False
2. By offering Ethernet-based services that can support more advanced applications, service providers can:
a. differentiate their offerings from competitors.
b. improve their profit margins.
c. improve their revenue potential over the long term.
d. all of the above
3. Important steps to consider when formulating a service-driven approach to building a customer-focused metro network:
a. Define the solutions and products that will assume the necessary roles in the network.
b. Plot the network topology, keeping in mind the roles and relationships among the defined objects within a network.
c. Specify the various metro Ethernet services and their capabilities.
d. All of the above.
4. Value-added services include:
a. video
b. residential broadband
c. data center access
d. all of the above
5. The new service model is becoming one of
a. mass production
b. mass customization
c. latency optimization
d. none of the above
6. Service provider networks require a four-layer architecture made up of a CPE layer, a physical aggregation layer, a service layer, and an intelligent core layer—all supported by end-to-end network management.
a. true
b. false
7. Point-To-Point Ethernet Connectivity Services include:
a. Storage transport
b. Ethernet Private Line
c. Data center access
d. Ethernet Access to Layer 3 VPN
e. All of the above
8. Which of the following is not a Metro Ethernet solution?
a. Ethernet Wire Service
b. Ethernet Relay Service
c. Ethernet Multipoint Service
d. Ethernet Multi-layer Service

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