Briefly explain the most important aspects of a Metro Ethernet.

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Ethernet MANs have given rise to a newer service whose popularity has grown in the last few years: Metro Ethernet. Metro Ethernet is a data transfer service that can connect your business to another business (or businesses) using a standard Ethernet connection. With Metro Ethernet, you may connect your company directly to another company using a point-to-point connection, or, for example, to two other companies using two point-to-point connections. Alternatively, you may connect your company to multiple companies as though they were all part of a large local area network. The former connection is the same as having a private connection between two points. A common example of this type of Metro Ethernet connection is found when a company is connected to an Internet service provider. All the traffic on this connection is between only two locations. The latter connection is an example of a multipoint-to-multipoint connection. Here, any company can talk to one or more (or all) connected companies. Thus, a company needs to send out only one packet to ensure that multiple companies receive this data.