Ethernet, the technology that currently dominates the desktop, is the most popular local area network, is prevalent in the data center and used in home networking, is now making inroads in the Wide ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nortel Networks Corp. moved to beef up metro Ethernet networks at this week’s Globalcomm carrier-equipment show in Chicago, rolling out a recently developed technology designed to make them more ...

Denver – Applied Micro Circuits Corp. has introduced a pair of network processors aimed specifically at metropolitan Ethernet applications. The nP3450 and nP3454 build on the company's nP3400 ...

Comcast is expanding its services to medium-sized businesses by introducing metro Ethernet connections at up to 10-Gigabit speed, launching Monday in more than 20 U.S. cities. The services include ...

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 ...

As Ethernet moves from being an enterprise-centric technology into a WAN and access technology, designers need to bring carrier-class capabilities to Ethernet designs. And one of the most important ...

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 ...

Nortel Networks will sell another piece of its business for $769 million as part of its bankruptcy proceedings, which require it to dismantle its business. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News ...