Nan Chen is president of the Metro Ethernet Forum, a Newport Beach, Calif.-based consortium of equipment manufacturers and service providers developing standards for providing carrier-class Ethernet ...

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 ...

If you're using a carrier's data services but network bandwidth is always in short supply and your technology road map tells you to expect more of the same, consider metro Ethernet. The first ...

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 ...

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 ...

is adding a "virtual" metro Ethernet service to its lineup of network services. Metro Ethernet provides data services between two or more customer local area networks. The "virtual" product includes ...

The following content is from an older version of this website, and may not display correctly. Trying to put its stamp on the new world of virtualized networks, the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) is ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Incognito Software Systems Inc., a leading global provider of broadband service orchestration and device management solutions, today announced a new ...

COLOMBES, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, a leading provider of communications, networking and cloud solutions tailored to customers’ industries, has been certified by Metro ...