Earthlink muni-nets gain Ethernet backhaul
EarthLink has rounded out its network backhaul scheme for the municipal wireless networks it is building in Philadelphia, New Orleans and other cities, having announced a partnership this week with broadband wireless vendor DragonWave to provide Ethernet-based backhaul from towers and building rooftops. ...
Mid-band Ethernet hits the big time
The mid-band Ethernet market has been bubbling for a few years, but it passed an important tipping point last week...
BellSouth offers mid-band Ethernet
BellSouth today unveiled new Mid-Band Metro Ethernet Services that will make Ethernet access more available to smaller businesses and branch offices of larger businesses...
InFocus: Multidimensional Ethernet
Given the goal of Metro Ethernet to make access less expensive, carriers ideally would prefer a single piece of equipment that serves both business and residential customers rather than segregating them through different equipment as is often done now. Here’s how multidimensional Ethernet can extend the reliability, scalability, and performance of Ethernet...
Globalcomm: Nortel makes metro Ethernet moves
CHICAGO--Less than a month after announcing the formation of a new Metro Ethernet division, Nortel Networks made a string of announcements regarding that group’s latest developments...
Globalcomm: Alcatel brings Ethernet MSPP to the U.S.
CHICAGO--Alcatel introduced the North American version of its Ethernet-centric multiservice provisioning platform (MSPP) at the Globalcomm trade show while touting new subscriber management features for its edge routing gear...
JDSU offers QoS test for Metro Ethernet
By integrating a set of interoperable field test instruments, network probes and management software, JDSU has come up with a Metro Ethernet test solution that it introduced this week and will demonstrate next week at Globalcomm in Chicago...
Metro Ethernet equipment market explodes
Global spending on metro Ethernet equipment nearly doubled last year to about $5 billion, according to new data from Infonetics Research, which projects the market to triple by 2009....
TELECOMNEXT: BellSouth unveils new business services
LAS VEGAS -- BellSouth this morning announced both a nationwide data service capability and new optical Ethernet services. ...
XO extends Ethernet reach with Hatteras
XO Communications will use Hatteras Networks’ Ethernet gear to dramatically expand the reach of its Ethernet service into buildings it can’t reach on fiber, the two companies announced today ...
Anda serves up more Ethernet, inks Lucent deal
Anda Networks announced the launch of its EtherReach Series 2118 and 2210 platforms that are geared for carriers migrating frame relay and ATM service to Ethernet. ...
Frontier brings Ethernet off the island, into the desert
Telemedicine certainly ranks high on the list of society-changing applications enabled by broadband. And it's not uncommon for independents to be among those pushing the application...
