A group of 37 communications companies, including Cisco, Intel, and Nortel, today announced the formation of the San Francisco-based Metro Ethernet Forum. The new non-profit organization aims to push ...

Based on its simplicity and low cost, Ethernet technology is expanding beyond its local-area network heritage to emerge as a compelling alternative to traditional frame relay/asynchronous transfer ...

Verizon Business Tuesday announced that it had boosted its Metro Ethernet capabilities that the company says will let enterprise customers link to more locations through Ethernet. Verizon Business ...

New Aggregation Product and Two New Edge Switches Leverage Atrica's Industry-Leading Technology to Enable Service Providers to Reduce Costs, Simplify Operations, and Rapidly Deliver Ethernet-based ...

Nortel Networks Inc. in Brampton, Ontario, revealed a new class of optical switches for the ever-more-attractive metropolitan-area network market on Monday, touting the switches’ power to cut carriers ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. & CONCORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new study by Network Strategy Partners (NSP) compares the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of a metro Ethernet optical transport network built ...

A lot has happened with Ethernet in service provider networks in the past 10 years. And the Metro Ethernet Forum has been behind a lot of that progress. From promoting and education the industry on ...

Network World Canada – Nortel Networks Corp. has agreed to sell its metropolitan Ethernet and optical networking units to Ciena Corp. for $769 million, $248 million more than its initial offer ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) recently announced an open tender to procure NT$999.21 million (US$31.32 million) worth of super-fast Ethernet switches. The equipment is for triple-play (integration of voice, ...

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. The four 'Etherjack' products launched by ...