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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

These types of issues (See Etherjack: Ethernet in the Metro access and beyond–Part I) are not unique to Ethernet. Frame Relay, for example, faced similar growth hurdles, and it was not until ...