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...
RAD extends Ethernet for Yipes
By: By Dan O'Shea
Yipes Enterprise Services and RAD Data Communications are set to announce next week that the service provider and vendor are working together to extend Yipes Ethernet services across leased DS-3 and OC-3 facilities...
Hatteras gets mid-band Ethernet on RUS list
By: By Tim McElligott
This week, Hatteras Networks announced that its Mid-Band Ethernet products have made the list thanks to deployments at Farmers Telephone Cooperative, Atlantic Telephone Membership Cooperative and Home Telephone Co....
Ciena adds TDM, Ethernet pseudowires
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ciena has fine-tuned its DN 7000 multiservice edge platform with more pseudowire and Ethernet interworking capabilities, the equipment vendor announced today...
BellSouth announces virtual Metro Ethernet
By: By Carol Wilson
BellSouth today added new classes of service to its Metro Ethernet offering, creating Virtual BellSouth Metro Ethernet Service, designed to meet specific business needs....
BellSouth takes Ethernet everywhere
By: By Carol Wilson
BellSouth today announced availability of Ethernet for access to business virtual private network services across the Southeast...
Earthlink muni-nets gain Ethernet backhaul
By: By Dan O'Shea
EarthLink has rounded out its network backhaul scheme for the municipal wireless networks it is building in Philadelphia, New Orleans and other cities, having announced a partnership this week with broadband wireless vendor DragonWave to provide Ethernet-based backhaul from towers and building rooftops. ...
Mid-band Ethernet hits the big time
By: By Ed Gubbins
The mid-band Ethernet market has been bubbling for a few years, but it passed an important tipping point last week...
BellSouth offers mid-band Ethernet
By: By Carol Wilson
BellSouth today unveiled new Mid-Band Metro Ethernet Services that will make Ethernet access more available to smaller businesses and branch offices of larger businesses...
InFocus: Multidimensional Ethernet
By: By Harpreet Chadha
Given the goal of Metro Ethernet to make access less expensive, carriers ideally would prefer a single piece of equipment that serves both business and residential customers rather than segregating them through different equipment as is often done now. Here’s how multidimensional Ethernet can extend the reliability, scalability, and performance of Ethernet...
Globalcomm: Nortel makes metro Ethernet moves
By: By Ed Gubbins
CHICAGO--Less than a month after announcing the formation of a new Metro Ethernet division, Nortel Networks made a string of announcements regarding that group’s latest developments...
Globalcomm: Alcatel brings Ethernet MSPP to the U.S.
By: By Ed Gubbins
CHICAGO--Alcatel introduced the North American version of its Ethernet-centric multiservice provisioning platform (MSPP) at the Globalcomm trade show while touting new subscriber management features for its edge routing gear...
JDSU offers QoS test for Metro Ethernet
By: By Tim McElligott
By integrating a set of interoperable field test instruments, network probes and management software, JDSU has come up with a Metro Ethernet test solution that it introduced this week and will demonstrate next week at Globalcomm in Chicago...
Metro Ethernet equipment market explodes
By: By Ed Gubbins
Global spending on metro Ethernet equipment nearly doubled last year to about $5 billion, according to new data from Infonetics Research, which projects the market to triple by 2009....
TELECOMNEXT: BellSouth unveils new business services
By: By Carol Wilson
LAS VEGAS -- BellSouth this morning announced both a nationwide data service capability and new optical Ethernet services. ...
XO extends Ethernet reach with Hatteras
By: By Carol Wilson
XO Communications will use Hatteras Networks’ Ethernet gear to dramatically expand the reach of its Ethernet service into buildings it can’t reach on fiber, the two companies announced today ...
Anda serves up more Ethernet, inks Lucent deal
By: By Vince Vittore
Anda Networks announced the launch of its EtherReach Series 2118 and 2210 platforms that are geared for carriers migrating frame relay and ATM service to Ethernet. ...
Frontier brings Ethernet off the island, into the desert
By: By Vince Vittore
Telemedicine certainly ranks high on the list of society-changing applications enabled by broadband. And it's not uncommon for independents to be among those pushing the application...
