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Ethernet has grown since its inception by Metcalfe in 1976. Its growth as a wide-area networking technology has led to a need for operations, administration and maintenance (OAM) requirements. The expansion of this technology into the domain of service providers, where networks are substantially larger and more complex and the user-base is wider, makes the idea of robust and reliable connectivity,...