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 ...

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 ...

A US-based company lifted the lid on a range of products earlier this month that could help service providers to offer Metro Ethernet services to companies. The four 'Etherjack' products launched by ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vitesse Semiconductor has introduced the VSC7350, the industry's first media access controller (MAC) which allows OEMs to support advanced Metro Ethernet services over both SONET/SDH and DWDM ...

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 metro Ethernet's flexibility and economy inspire you, you still face a fundamental decision: Do you invest in your own network infrastructure or do you contract for services from a ...

Colorado Springs, Colo. — Cisco Systems Inc. and Extreme Networks Inc. are expanding their metro Ethernet switching strategies to meet carriers' need for resiliency. Cisco is offering a new ...

Nortel Networks Inc. in Brampton, Ontario, revealed a new class of optical switches for the ever-more-attractive metropolitan-area network market on Monday, touting the switches’ power to cut carriers ...