Ellacoya beefs up deep packet inspection
By: By Carol Wilson
Ellacoya is taking the next step in its product evolution, today announcing the e100, a scalable box that can support line-rate deep-packet inspection at rates up to 20 Gigabits per second, supporting up to 500,000 active subscribers and doing content inspection at 10 Gbps wire speeds...
New funding fuels more Actelis growth
By: By Carol Wilson
Actelis Networks, one of the leading players in the growing Ethernet-over-copper equipment market, today signaled the next step in its growth, announcing a new financing round intended to fuel the company’s expansion into larger network operators...
So long, Sonet
By: By Carol Wilson
This could well be the last year of significant sales of Sonet and SDH transport gear, according to industry analysts and vendors...
Nortel boasts of PBT validation
By: By Ed Gubbins
Nortel Networks boasted today about having been selected, along with Siemens, to supply carrier Ethernet gear for British Telecom’s 21st Century Network initiative. In particular, Nortel claimed the win was a “major vote of confidence” from a top-tier carrier for Nortel’s chosen metro technology, Provider Backbone Transport...
Carrier Ethernet beginning to dominate
By: By Carol Wilson
Metro Ethernet and cellular backhaul are hot investment areas for service providers, as they continue to converge their data services onto Internet Protocol backbones, according to the latest report from Infonetics, “Service Provider Plans for IP/MPLS: North America, Europe, Asia Pacific.”...
Zhone GPON, pseudowire gear coming
By: By Ed Gubbins
Zhone Technologies is planning to introduce new products in the next few months related to gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) and pseudowires, chief executive officer Mory Ejabat said at an investor conference this week...
Ciena quietly partners with Anda Networks
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ciena has partnered with Anda Networks to offer the latter’s Ethernet access and aggregation technology with its own products, according to sources familiar with the two equipment vendors....
Juniper bids 2006 good riddance
By: By Ed Gubbins
As 2007 arrives, one company that probably welcomes the calendar change more than most is Juniper Networks, for whom next year promises to be better than this one....
US LEC takes MPLS VPNs nationwide
By: By Ed Gubbins
US LEC has extended its multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) virtual private network (VPN) service nationwide...
ITU: RAD unveils new Ethernet strategy
By: By Carol Wilson
HONG KONG--RAD Data Communications this week unveiled a new Ethernet access strategy that supports multiple forms of access networks and provides the ability to remotely troubleshoot service quality using an intelligent demarcation capability...
ITU: ECI showcases carrier Ethernet, optical
By: By Carol Wilson
HONG KONG--ECI Telecom is using the ITU Telecom World 2006 to showcase its multiple product lines, including its growing emphasis on carrier Ethernet and its optical transport line...
ITU: Cable players embrace carrier Ethernet, MEF
By: By Carol Wilson
HONG KONG--The U.S. cable industry is embracing carrier Ethernet in a major way, as recent Metro Ethernet Forum activity indicates...
Enterprises embrace 10-Gb/s Ethernet
By: By Ed Gubbins
The number of large and medium-sized enterprises using 10-Gb/s Ethernet for their core networks could grow by a third next year, according to a recent study by InfoPro...
In the Spotlight: Sam Mathan, Matisse Networks
By: By Ed Gubbins
Just before Thanksgiving, Matisse’s chief executive officer Sam Mathan told Telephony’s Ed Gubbins where Matisse is headed next....
Cisco buys metro Ethernet chipmaker
By: By Ed Gubbins
Cisco Systems will acquire metro Ethernet chipmaker Greenfield Networks, the companies announced today...
Turin hires ex-Luminous CEO
By: By Ed Gubbins
Turin Networks has named Chris Stark its new president of worldwide sales and marketing. Stark was the chief executive officer of Luminous Networks, a vendor of resilient packet ring (RPR) equipment...
Pseudowire key to new cellular backhaul options
By: By Joan Engebretson
A technology originally aimed at carrying different types of data traffic across an IP backbone has found a new application that’s not in the backbone. The technology, pseudowire, is now being deployed in Ethernet-based access networks to support a need we’ve been hearing a lot about lately—cellular backhaul...
Extreme’s new CEO describes turnaround plans
By: By Ed Gubbins
Mark Canepa, who was named the new chief executive officer of Extreme Networks in August, highlighted his goals for reviving the Ethernet equipment vendor during its quarterly earnings call late Friday...
Extreme still struggling with sales
By: By Ed Gubbins
After a challenging 2006 fiscal year, Extreme Networks began fiscal 2007 with more bad news...
QoS certification for carrier Ethernet services begins
By: By Ed Gubbins
The Metro Ethernet Forum today opened registration for service providers wishing to have their carrier Ethernet services certified as compliant to the group’s quality of service (QoS) specifications...
Verizon extends carrier Ethernet to Asia
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon Business today announced it will extend the reach of its Ethernet virtual private line service (EVPL) to six countries in Asia, enabling multi-national customers to more easily connect to their facilities, financial exchanges and trading partners in that part of the globe...
Juniper CEO heralds end of carrier Ethernet
By: By Ed Gubbins
Juniper Networks’ new carrier Ethernet router, the MX960, will bring about the end of the market for carrier Ethernet gear, Juniper chief executive officer Scott Kreins said during the company’s third-quarter earnings call late Wednesday...
Juniper unveils high-density Ethernet router
By: Ed Gubbins
Juniper Networks today introduced its most Ethernet-centric product to date. ...
Comptel: Actelis boosts CLEC standing
By: By Carol Wilson
Ethernet-over-copper provider Actelis Networks has announced that CLEC Broadview Networks is deploying its products to provide Metro Ethernet service...
Alcatel’s Ethernet switch grows, its router shrinks
By: By Ed Gubbins
Alcatel today unveiled a larger version of its Ethernet aggregation switch and a smaller version of its services router today...
