Study touts Metro Ethernet cost savings
News The potential savings rise to 20 percent in the second year and roughly 24 percent in the third year, according to the study, which was commissioned by the Metro Ethernet Forum, a marketing group made up of equipment vendors and service providers.
[January 26, 2004, 13:00]
Ethernet takes a step towards service providers
News The last decade has seen LAN capacity expand some 100-fold, and backbone capacity more like 300-fold, while the real bottleneck has been in the metropolitan area, with a bare 16-fold increase," says Nan Chen, president of the Metro Ethernet Forum...
[March 6, 2003, 14:34]
Ethernet marches towards telecoms domination
News The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) announced last week that it has launched its first standard. It will provide vendors with the ability to provide solutions which deliver metro Ethernet services," explained Chen, speaking at the NetEvents 2003...
[October 13, 2003, 11:50]
Business Case for Carrier Ethernet Services
White Papers Carrier Ethernet services built on the Ethernet Line (E-Line) and Ethernet LAN (E-LAN) service types defined by the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) provide the foundation for service revenue growth. This paper describes the architectures and Cisco...
[March 16, 2009, 7:34]
Bandwidth Profiles for Ethernet Services
White Papers This paper provides a comprehensive technical overview of bandwidth profiles for Ethernet services, based on the work of the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) Technical Committee. The paper is intended to help buyers, users, providers of Ethernet services...
[July 8, 2008, 1:01]
Delivering on the Promise of Ethernet: MEF Services Using Ciena's FlexSelect Architecture
White Papers The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), an influential industry organization, has defined a series of much-needed specifications equipment makers and service providers can follow to deliver Carrier Ethernet services in a consistent, if not equivalent...
[July 8, 2008, 1:01]
Webcast: Why "Ethernet Everywhere" is Coming, and How it Must Be Secured
White Papers Our featured guests will be Ron Young, founding chairman of the Metro Ethernet Forum and cofounder of industry pioneer Yipes Communications, and SafeNet's VP of enterprise security Andy Solterbeck, an expert in data-in-motion network security with...
[April 20, 2006, 9:42]
Breaking out of walled gardens: The promise of ethernet interconnection
White Papers Our services are Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) certified, and for two years running we have been the MEF European Service Provider of the Year. Ethernet as a technical networking standard is dominant in networks within buildings and is growing fast in...
[August 24, 2007, 1:00]
Telco-friendly Ethernet 'ready for action'
News Service providers can do it now," said Nan Chen, president of the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF). The next area to adopt Ethernet will be metropolitan area (or "metro") networks, which span anywhere from a city to a region as big as some European...
[March 5, 2003, 8:36]
Cisco router to boost metropolitan areas
News The new metro-focused Cisco products are based on Ethernet networking technology and target emerging service providers, as well as traditional service providers. They're taking these 12000s and making them competitive and attractive for [the] metro...
[October 2, 2001, 15:18]
Cisco extends optical range
News With long-haul optical networking in a parlous state, Cisco is launching products for the parts of the market where it sees the strongest future: a multi-service SDH platform and a Metro DWDM switch for enterprises and local service providers.
[June 25, 2002, 13:28]
Broadband technologies vie for dominance
News But a parallel announcement that Alcatel -- the market leader in DSL -- had reached 20 million DSL lines, including more than a million in China, showed that Cisco's metro Ethernet has a very long way to go, and is never likely to be an option for...
[October 31, 2002, 9:36]
Intel takes broadband to the WiMax
News Intel has three business models for WiMax: fixed access, where it does the job of cable or DSL (digital subscriber line) broadband; portable use within in metro zones, akin to giant hot spots; and a fully mobile system with inter-cell hand-offs.
[September 8, 2004, 10:00]
Superfast DSL shows its pace
News The UK's Easynet is planning to offer businesses in metro areas up to 8mbps of uncontended bandwidth (where the bandwidth is not shared with other customers), and has been experiminting in the lab with bundling DSL cables together to achieve...
[March 11, 2002, 14:00]
The Ethernet Alliance - 802 dot why?
Leader There are already plenty of such groups such as the Metro Ethernet Forum and the Wi-Fi Alliance, grouped more or less sensibly in areas where interoperability matters. By the most rigorous standards, Ethernet has been a success.
[January 12, 2006, 13:55]
3G is dead, says mobile phone inventor
News Surprisingly, for a panel session at the Broadband DSL Forum on the future of broadband, there was no DSL spokesman, just Cooper and Michael Bayer, director of service provider marketing at Cisco, promoting (once more) metro Ethernet.
[October 31, 2002, 14:53]
