System vendors are welcoming new technologies for carrying Ethernet over synchronous optical networks (SONET), a development that will enable additional services on their previously SONET-only ...

Force10 Networks this week is expected to launch its first packet-over-SONET blade, aimed at large companies that need to connect to legacy WAN infrastructures but want to avoid deploying stand-alone ...

Carrier Ethernet unlocks many potential revenue- generating services that telecommunications service providers, otherwise known as carriers, must deploy to be competitive. However, most carriers ...

A clutch of high-powered telecoms equipment players have joined forces to challenge the use of Sonet technology in metropolitan area networks. The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) wants to promote optical ...

Many companies have made large investments in dense wavelength division multiplexing technologies to meet growing data and storage requirements. DWDM systems provided the first basic connectivity for ...

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Fujitsu Ltd. this week announced enhancements to its Flashwave 4100 Multi-Service Provisioning Platform that are designed to improve the delivery of data services, including Ethernet-over-Sonet .

Sonet/SDH, which dominates metro and long-haul networks, has always been complex and expensive. But it works so well! Parama Networks now makes it easier and less expensive to build next-generation ...

We live in a virtual world where most of us have network access in our homes -- the Internet -- which is a virtual network. We access the virtual network with some form of TCP/IP connection that is ...

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 ...