Summary

Recommendation ITU-T G.8312 describes a transport technology for metro networks (MTNs), including transport of distributed radio access network (D-RAN) and centralized radio access network (C-RAN) traffic. This technology leverages existing and emerging pluggable Ethernet modules and reuses flex Ethernet (FlexE) implementation logic.

Edition 2.0 of this Recommendation includes the text of Amendments 1, 2, 3 and 4, to Edition 1.0 of this Recommendation, the addition of the mapping of VC-12, VC-4 and STM-4 into fgMTNP using AMP and GMP.