Ethernet and Sonet are on a crash course. With Ethernet continuing to push its way out of the enterprise into the access and metro sectors, developers of Sonet equipment are being pushed to map ...

Metropolitan-area networks (MAN) built on Ethernet over fiber promise to deliver faster, cheaper and more flexible bandwidth than ATM/Sonet-based technologies. But IT professionals contemplating the ...

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 ...

Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. The ...

Editor's note: To view a PDF version of this article, click here. Several technologies are coming together to make Ethernet compelling for metro access. Perhaps the most interesting is the combination ...