Metro Ethernet is getting increased interest lately, perhaps becoming a big-growth area for telecom spending. Recently, the MPLS/Frame Relay Alliance set better interworking among frame relay, ATM and ...

Verizon Business Tuesday announced that it had boosted its Metro Ethernet capabilities that the company says will let enterprise customers link to more locations through Ethernet. Verizon Business ...

The following content is from an older version of this website, and may not display correctly. Carriers have dealt with metro environments for years. The geographical dispersion of users across large ...

The following content is from an older version of this website, and may not display correctly. Trying to put its stamp on the new world of virtualized networks, the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) is ...

Cisco Systems Inc. last week announced a pair of switches that support Ethernet-based metropolitan-area networks and are aimed at network service providers looking to offer new capabilities to their ...

If you're using a carrier's data services but network bandwidth is always in short supply and your technology road map tells you to expect more of the same, consider metro Ethernet. The first ...

Nan Chen is president of the Metro Ethernet Forum, a Newport Beach, Calif.-based consortium of equipment manufacturers and service providers developing standards for providing carrier-class Ethernet ...

Targeted at carrier Ethernet and metro WDM transport networks, the chip provides a direct connection between 10G MACs, network processors, or 10-GbE switches, and XFP/SFP+ optical modules. A single ...

Enabling metro Ethernet equipment to connect directly to 10GbE/OTN optical networks, the PEMAQUID S19258 framer/mapper/PHY device targets line cards in carrier-grade switches/routers, 10GbE/OC-192 ...

Delivering Gigabit Ethernet connectivity to enterprise customers is clearly one strategy that today's carriers are eyeing as a means for gaining new revenue streams. To help in these efforts, Cisco ...