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.

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...