Ciena unveils Ethernet-over-copper gear
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ciena announced new carrier Ethernet equipment today, publicly acknowledging for the first time an original equipment manufacturing (OEM) agreement with Anda Networks reported by Telephony last month...
Edge network market thins out
By: By Ed Gubbins
In the fast-growing edge router market, the field of equipment choices is narrowing as intense competition, amid a rush of investment, weeds out marginal...
InFocus: Leveraging GMPLS to deliver end-to-end Ethernet services
By: By Ralph Santitoro, Turin Networks
In order to make Ethernet services ubiquitous, service providers must be able to offer standardized services that are scalable, reliable and manageable with the quality of service that their subscribers demand. These requirements place significant demands on network operations and service provisioning...
Designing the carrier Ethernet kiss
By: By Ed Gubbins
The Metro Ethernet Forum is trying to unravel the toughest questions surrounding inter-carrier Ethernet interfaces and they're just getting started...
Worldwide Packets gets into aggregation
By: By Ed Gubbins
After seven years in access networks, Worldwide Packets is moving upstream...
A Telephony Podcast: Inter-Carrier Ethernet
The Metro Ethernet Forum is at work on an external network-to-network interface (E-NNI) that would address issues created by inter-carrier Ethernet connections. Telephony’s Jason Meyers and Ed Gubbins discuss the challenges being confronted by the MEF and the rest of the carrier Ethernet community....
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
Ikanos’ ADI buy yields VDSL2 gateway
By: By Ed Gubbins
Chip vendor Ikanos Communications today unveiled a VDSL2 residential gateway reference platform using the network processor it acquired from Analog Devices (ADI) in January...
InFocus: The next phase in Ethernet Development
By: By Fred Ellefson, Vice President of Etherjack Alliances, ADVA Optical Networking
The trend toward Ethernet as the preferred medium for transporting IP-based business applications has been long forecasted, and the swing from early adoption to mass-market deployment appears to be at last underway. ...
Start-up launches optical burst switching
By: By Ed Gubbins
Matisse Networks exited stealth mode today, threatening to turn the optical equipment industry on its ear with its optical burst switching (OBS) technology...
Juniper boosts broadband router capacity
By: By Ed Gubbins
Juniper Networks is boosting the capacity of its E320 broadband services router this month, keeping a promise made last year...
