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 ...

Nortel Networks moved to beef up metro Ethernet networks on Tuesday at the Globalcomm carrier-equipment show in Chicago, rolling out a recently developed technology designed to make them more ...

It seems that broader use of metro Ethernet services may be looming on the horizon as the next step for many enterprises. Most importantly, these services can be used not only for connecting campuses ...

COLOMBES, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, a leading provider of communications, networking and cloud solutions tailored to customers’ industries, has been certified by Metro ...

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 ...

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 ...

BellSouth is making Metro Ethernet services available across its entire network. The capability enables customers to link their local area networks across the BellSouth nine-state coverage area at a ...

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 ...

Carriers have dealt with metro environments for years. The objective being to pull traffic in, and then make distributed resources accessible via some distribution or transport layer. While this ...

Nokia Siemens Networks has lost yet another auction for some of Nortel's assets, but there are still some parts remaining to be sold Ciena will pay $769 million for the optical networking and carrier ...

Designed for line cards in carrier-grade switches/routers, 10 GbE/OC-192 MSPPs, and OTU2 DWDM networks, the PEMAQUID (S19258) XAUI-to-XFI 10G LAN/WAN/OTN framer/mapper/PHY device is reportedly the ...