Diagram of a ring Ethernet network. ... Cisco’s Metro Ethernet line of Ethernet switch products (ME 2400, ME 3400, ME 3750, ME 4900, 4500, ME 6500, and 6500) all support REP.

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 ...

Ethernet metropolitan-area networks offer cheaper, more flexible bandwidth than traditional Sonet-based technologies, but the services are still a work in progress. Topics Events ...

Nan Chen is president of the Metro Ethernet Forum, a Newport Beach, Calif.-based consortium of equipment manufacturers and service providers developing standards for providing carrier-class ...

Fine granularity bandwidth tuning with low order Virtual Concatenation (1.6 Mbit/s VT1.5 / 2 Mbit/s VC-12) enables delivery of customer tailored 10/100 Ethernet services while maintaining network ...