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Metro Ethernet Service Delivers Higher Capacity, Controlled Costs, and Easier Upgrades
White Papers When one of these links needed to be replaced, Cisco IT implemented a Metro Ethernet circuit with a Cisco 12404 Router as the gateway - yielding the company higher capacity and traffic throughput, improved routing protocol convergence and...
[March 5, 2008, 0:02]
Metro Ethernet products promise cost savings
News A US-based company lifted the lid on a range of products earlier this month that could help service providers to offer Metro Ethernet services to companies. Advocates of Metro Ethernet claim that it makes sense to use optical Ethernet to connect...
[May 17, 2004, 14:40]
Metro Ethernet Standards: Cisco's Commitment to Innovation and Interoperability
White Papers Join several industry experts for a live, interactive discussion about the latest developments within the Metro Ethernet standards bodies. Review the importance of interoperability and Cisco's commitment to carrier-class solutions that are based on...
[December 20, 2004, 23:00]
Cisco lifts lid on Metro Ethernet advances
News Cisco launched a range of network products on Tuesday to help drive adoption of Metro Ethernet -- a technology hailed as an ideal means for providing large numbers of high-speed broadband and VPN connections at relatively low cost.
[January 20, 2004, 14:55]
Managed Metro Ethernet Services: Business Advantages for the Enterprise
White Papers This white paper summarizes the advantages of Metro Ethernet for enterprises and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and explains the advantages of out-tasking to a managed service provider. The paper concludes with case studies of companies...
[March 16, 2009, 4:18]
End-to-End Ethernet Connectivity Fault Management in Metro and Access Networks
White Papers This has helped establish Alcatel as a leader in Metro Ethernet. Ethernet OAM is seen as a pre-condition for efficient rollout of Ethernet services. Alcatel has recognized the lack of OAM functionality today in the original (native) Ethernet and...
[October 11, 2005, 3:00]
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]
Cisco Catalyst 3750 Metro Series Switch Enhanced Services Ports Deliver Advanced QoS Features for Metro Ethernet Service Providers
White Papers Cisco Catalyst 3750 Metro Series switches are built with two types of ports - customer ports and Enhanced Services ports. Customer ports connect to end customers and have the same features as Cisco Catalyst 3750 Series switches.
[August 25, 2004, 10:33]
Service Delivery Technologies for Metro Ethernet Networks
White Papers Ethernet had its origins in providing network connectivity for a single organization. With the introduction of metropolitan and wide area Ethernet services, providers started using this Ethernet "Connectivity" technology to provide Ethernet "Services.
[September 15, 2007, 1:01]
Ethernet Services and Service Delivery Technologies in the Metro
White Papers Enterprises with geographically distributed offices want to expand their Ethernet-based LANs to connect remote branches to their headquarters, and their business to the Internet. The world of telecommunications is driven by changes in consumption...
[July 8, 2008, 1:01]
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]
VPLS: Scalable Transparent LAN Services
White Papers The goal of Metro Ethernet is to provide a multipoint-to-multipoint Ethernet service that can connect multiple LANs that are either within the same metro area or spread across geographically disparate metro areas such that they behave as if they...
[April 3, 2004, 0:04]
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]
Nortel Network Case Study: TeleCable
White Papers Nortel's Metro Ethernet Networking portfolio, comprising the Metro Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 and the Metro Ethernet Services Units 1800 and 1850. Finally, the Optical Metro 5200 links the core nodes with a high-speed optical backbone.
[December 19, 2007, 0:01]
Integrating Ethernet in Carrier Class Networks
White Papers Service providers are experiencing a variety of processing demands for handling the growth of Ethernet traffic in converged IP networks in both metro and core environments. In access networks, and through much of the metro, the emerging winner is...
[July 4, 2008, 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]
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]
Public Multi-Vendor Carrier Ethernet Interoperability Test
White Papers Increased requirements for scalability and coverage, range of Ethernet services offered and competitive pricing force carriers to search for new solutions for their metro business services, residential triple play offerings and inter-carrier...
[July 4, 2008, 1:00]
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]
Timms targets 2010 for faster broadband
News For example, in Switzerland, Austria and Italy, Metro Ethernet services are being deployed -- giving users several Megabits per second of connectivity along with services such as video-on-demand and very fast back-up facilities.
[January 28, 2004, 15:15]
