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 ...

If you're using a carrier's data services but network bandwidth is always in short supply and your technology road map tells you to expect more of the same, consider metro Ethernet. The first ...

For those unfamiliar with metro Ethernet services, they look remarkably like frame relay with a well-defined user-network interface, a committed information rate, committed burst rates, a means to ...

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 ...

Nortel Networks moved to beef up metro Ethernet networks on Tuesday at the Globalcomm carrier-equipment show in Chicago, rolling out a recently developed technology designed to make them more ...

IT GOAL: Create a fast, reliable and rapidly scalable network to connect 1,500 employees across four downtown Houston offices. The network must support voice-over-IP traffic for interoffice call ...

is adding a "virtual" metro Ethernet service to its lineup of network services. Metro Ethernet provides data services between two or more customer local area networks. The "virtual" product includes ...

Nokia Siemens Networks has lost yet another auction for some of Nortel's assets, but there are still some parts remaining to be sold Ciena will pay $769 million for the optical networking and carrier ...