Metro Ethernet is getting increased interest lately, perhaps becoming a big-growth area for telecom spending. Recently, the MPLS/Frame Relay Alliance set better interworking among frame relay, ATM and ...

Sometimes I think about old stuff. This is one of those thoughts– but it’s still current. Decades ago a metro-oriented visionary had a grand thought, of a cable system that would reach the metro ...

Service providers are building metropolitan-area networks, and increasingly they’re turning to metro Ethernet equipment to make them happen. Infonetics Research this week issued a report that predicts ...

Nan Chen is president of the Metro Ethernet Forum, a Newport Beach, Calif.-based consortium of equipment manufacturers and service providers developing standards for providing carrier-class Ethernet ...

Nortel Networks Corp. moved to beef up metro Ethernet networks at this week’s Globalcomm carrier-equipment show in Chicago, rolling out a recently developed technology designed to make them more ...