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 ...

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 ...

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, a leading provider of communications, networking and cloud solutions tailored to customers’ industries, has been certified by Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), the global industry ...

Nortel Networks Corp. moved to beef up metro Ethernet networks at this week’s Globalcomm carrier-equipment show in Chicago, rolling out a recently developed technology designed to make them more ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

TORONTO, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Ailing telecom equipment maker Nortel Networks Corp has suspended its plans to sell its Metro Ethernet Networks unit as it begins its restructuring under bankruptcy ...