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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

IT GOAL: Create a fast, reliable and rapidly scalable network to connect 1,500 employees across four downtown Houston offices. The network must support voice-over-IP traffic for interoffice call ...

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, a leading provider of communications, networking and cloud solutions tailored to customers’ industries, has been certified by Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), the global industry ...

Worldwide metro Ethernet equipment revenue more than doubles between 2004 and 2008, from $3.1 bln to $7.6 bln, totaling almost $26 bln during the five-year period, and ports shipments will more than ...