Business metro Ethernet services over DOCSIS® 3.1

DOCSIS® 3.1 systems were designed to achieve high capacities with predictable Quality of Service (QoS) promising 2 Gbps on the upstream and 10 Gbps on the downstream. This paper describes L2VPN business services over DOCSIS® 3.1, extension of MPLS to customer premise, virtualization of Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) and interaction of the L2VPN application with SDN controller to support business services.