Ethernet Commentary Archive
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Ethernet complex
By: By Ed gubbins
Simplicity has long been listed among Ethernet's greatest charms. (I can relate.) But some of the same folks who can't stop praising Ethernet's simplicity are constantly imbuing it with ever more complexity...
Slicing the pie
By: By Rick Malone, Vertical Systems Group
The Landscape of service providers vying for a slice of the more than $2 billion U.S. business market for carrier Ethernet services has split into three segments: incumbents, competitive providers and cable multiple systems operators...
Waiting for Ethernet's third guy
By: By Tom Nolle, CIMI Corp.
Carrier Ethernet equipment vendors generally fall into two camps these days. Most carriers would prefer to camp somewhere else...
Survival of the fittest -- Carriers need partners not vendors
By: By Robert W. Pullen, Tellabs
Providers need more today than just high-quality infrastructure. In today’s climate of “what have you done for me lately,” the litmus test for choosing an infrastructure vendor is not only equipment, but also services that deliver quantifiable benefits to the top and bottom lines...
Hammerhead shows its claw
By: By Ed Gubbins
As the folks at Hammerhead Systems briefed me on their new system for interworking PBT and MPLS, a spokesperson pointed out that it addresses two of the biggest criticisms of PBT so far from entrenched MPLS router vendors: namely, that it’s a just point-to-point technology, and it can’t handle multicasting...
Slinging speed
By: By Ed Gubbins
If you haven’t listened to the podcast of my recent interview with Cogent Communications CEO Dave Schaeffer, I don’t know what’s wrong with you. In it, our hero is forced to confront his “dark” side—that is, the areas of Cogent’s footprint not yet connected to its fiber optic network...
Copperheads
By: By Ed Gubbins
As Ethernet provider Cogent Communications vows to double the pace at which it brings its fiber network to new buildings, it seems as though everyone and his brother is focused on Ethernet over copper...
In the Spotlight: Kamran Sistanizadeh, Yipes
By: By Ed Gubbins
Yipes co-founder and chief technology officer Kamran Sistanizadeh recently spoke with Telephony’s Senior Writer Ed Gubbins about managing carrier Ethernet services and SLAs and where the industry’s habits in that regard are headed...
Do telcos get it?
By: By Dan O'Shea
For years, people said, "Telcos just don't get Ethernet," and for good reason. They were busy pushing ATM and other solutions for local area network access and management even though Ethernet--a technology born of the enterprise, rather than the public network--quickly became the dominant LAN standard...
