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Ciena antes up Ethernet for packet optical game
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ciena is beefing up the Ethernet capabilities on its CN 4200 multiservice transport platform by adding Layer 2 Ethernet aggregation and switching, ratcheting up Ciena’s strength in the packet optical networking space...
Fujitsu wins Verizon packet optical bid
By: By Ed Gubbins
Fujitsu Network Communications appears to have won a prized contract to supply Verizon with packet optical transport equipment, according to Simon Leopold, an analyst with Morgan Keegan...
Ciena boasts PBT win, booming metro sales
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ciena today claimed its first sale to a major carrier of products based on Provider Backbone Technology (PBT) as sales of metro optical equipment overall boosted the company’s quarterly revenue beyond expectations...
Nortel adds muscle, multicasting to PBT
By: By Ed Gubbins
Nortel Networks has updated its metro Ethernet portfolio with new hardware and software to add muscle to its Provider Backbone Transport (PBT) platform and give it the ability to manage multicast traffic...
New network ties Savvis acquisitions together
By: By Carol Wilson
A year after announcing its upgrade plans, Savvis is coming to market with a new network offering based on integration of its data centers into a global network serving about 20% of Internet routes...
Hammerhead takes PBT past point-to-point
By: By Ed Gubbins
Hammerhead Systems today unveiled a new version of its carrier Ethernet aggregation switch designed to bridge the gap between provider backbone transport (PBT) and multiprotocol label-switching (MPLS) technologies as well as to allow PBT to become more than just a point-to-point technology...
MFA Forum becomes IP/MPLS Forum
By: By Carol Wilson
The MFA Forum, a group formed from the merger of three other groups – the ATM Forum, the Frame Relay Forum and the MPLS Forum – is changing its name once more and sharpening its focus...
Zhone mines fertile copper Ethernet market overseas
By: By Ed Gubbins
Zhone Technologies is taking advantage of a fertile market overseas for Ethernet over copper (EoC) equipment, introducing more EoC gear today and hailing what it claims is the world’s largest EoC deployment to date...
TDS gets big embrace from Ethernet
By: By Tim McElligott
Used for Internet backhaul today, TDS Telecom sees everything over Ethernet down the road...
Tellabs adds native Ethernet switching to ROADM
By: By Ed Gubbins
Tellabs is adding native Ethernet switching and aggregation to its 7100 reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM), the company announced today...
LightEdge uses Actelis to displace T-1s
By: By Carol Wilson
Managed service provider LightEdge Solutions said today it is deploying Actelis Ethernet-over-copper products to offer voice, data and network service bundles to small to mid-sized businesses in six Midwestern and Southwestern states...
Cisco co-founder launches DWDM start-up
By: By Ed Gubbins
Cisco Systems co-founder Len Bosack is launching a new equipment start-up today aimed at bringing optical networking to people who are more comfortable with routers than optics...
The right transport foundation for carrier Ethernet services
By: By Brian Pratt, Meriton
A subtle yet revolutionary change is in the process of happening to Ethernet, creating a brand new and very exciting industry around the concept of carrier Ethernet transport (CET). CET offers a new option for the transport of Ethernet services in carrier networks. To understand the substance and significance of the CET, it is important to understand where so-called next-generation network thinking has been and how it is changing...
In the Spotlight: John Hawkins, Nortel Networks
By: By Ed Gubbins
Amid multivendor interoperability demonstrations at the NXTcomm trade show in Chicago this month, Nortel Networks announced the formation of what it called a ‘PBT ecosystem’ comprised of vendors working together to publicize Provider Backbone Transport technology, a connection-oriented layer-two-based approach to Ethernet transport. John Hawkins, Nortel’s manager of carrier Ethernet marketing, spoke about Nortel’s PBT plans in advance of the show...
NXTcomm: Actelis lands Windstream
By: By Carol Wilson
CHICAGO--Actelis Networks today announced that Windstream is deploying its ML1300 and ML600 point-to-multipoint Ethernet-over-copper systems to offer symmetrical Ethernet services to multiple markets ranging from large government agencies and other institutions to the small to mid-sized business market...
Wave 7 adds GPON to access platform
By: By Carol Wilson
Access equipment maker Wave 7 Optics today said it has added gigabit passive optical network capabilities to its Trident7 Universal Access Platform...
Juniper unveils new core router
By: By Ed Gubbins
Juniper Networks revealed its newest core router today after months of industry speculation...
Turin gets in T-1 bonding game
By: By Ed Gubbins
Turin Networks unveiled a new edge aggregation system today that bonds T-1 lines together to deliver Ethernet services over copper infrastructure...
Narad becomes PhyFlex
By: By Ed Gubbins
Narad Networks changed its name to PhyFlex Networks this week as it introduced a new line of Ethernet switches for fiber-based access networks...
Zhone unveils optical transport gear
By: By Ed Gubbins
Zhone Technologies unveiled today the new optical transport platform it had promised to introduce in recent months...
XO rolls out mid-band Ethernet with Hatteras
By: By Carol Wilson
XO Communications today announced plans to roll out a national mid-band Ethernet service using Ethernet-over-copper gear from Hatteras Networks. A multi-million dollar contract between the two companies establishes the HN 4000 and HN 400 as the exclusive platforms for XO as it extends the reach of its Ethernet services in 60 metropolitan markets...
Verizon launches national E-VPLS service
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon today launched its promised national Ethernet Virtual Private Line Service (E-VPLS), a Layer 2 service that offers enterprises an easier way to link multiple locations with Ethernet without surrendering control of their routing...
Extreme joins PBT bandwagon
By: By Ed Gubbins
Extreme Networks is joining the ranks of equipment vendors chasing the demand for Provider Backbone Transport (PBT) networking products...
Comptel: Hatteras touts new customer, product feature
By: By Carol Wilson
LAS VEGAS--Hatteras Networks yesterday announced a new customer, competitive services provider Telekenex of California, that it is serving through a partnership with Cisco Systems that the company has had but hasn’t discussed publicly...
Actelis debuts Ethernet switch
By: By Carol Wilson
Actelis Networks is charting a path of steady growth in the Carrier Ethernet space, announcing today that it is introducing a new switch, has signed a new customer and is bringing an industry veteran on board to expand operations...
