Carrier Ethernet unlocks many potential revenue- generating services that telecommunications service providers, otherwise known as carriers, must deploy to be competitive. However, most carriers ...

Force10 Networks this week is expected to launch its first packet-over-SONET blade, aimed at large companies that need to connect to legacy WAN infrastructures but want to avoid deploying stand-alone ...

Many companies have made large investments in dense wavelength division multiplexing technologies to meet growing data and storage requirements. DWDM systems provided the first basic connectivity for ...

High-order virtual concatenation (VC) has been hailed by many in the metro space as the key for making Ethernet a viable service to deliver over Sonet architectures. With its ability to right size at ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Makers of network equipment are putting new emphasis on tuning products for traditional, old-world architectures, as radical ideas fall out of style in step with the recession.

The start-up now offers two versions of its product that service providers can use to upgrade their metropolitan networks to Ethernet. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, ...

The International Telecommunications Union has announced a set of new standards designed to make it easier for telephone and Internet service providers to offer Ethernet services over their existing ...