Today's incumbent service providers are seeking to accommodate increasing demands for bandwidth, security and service level management resulting from the proliferation of LAN-based applications.

Ethernet–developed as a local-area network (LAN) protocol–is gaining prominence in the access segment of carrier networks (popularly referred to as the metro access). The reason is very simple: ...

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 ...

More and more enterprises are looking to service providers to interconnect their VoIP sites. Outsourcing and expensing the service seems like a more attractive option than owning the network, but ...