With AT&T Switched Ethernet on Demand, organizations can quickly add or change services, order additional sites, ramp up bandwidth capacity and manage the network in real time.

Metro Ethernet. Metro Ethernet is a network based on the Ethernet standard that serves metropolitan areas via metropolitan area networks (MANs). It can be used as a metropolitan access network, ...

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 ...

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 ...

It seems that broader use of metro Ethernet services may be looming on the horizon as the next step for many enterprises. Most importantly, these services can be used not only for connecting ...

Cisco launched a range of network products on Tuesday to help drive adoption of Metro Ethernet -- a technology hailed as an ideal means for providing large numbers of high-speed broadband and VPN ...

Riverstone Networks Inc., for example, has developed a technology designed to make Ethernet more resilient in the metro area. The company's Rapid Ring Spanning Tree Protocol (RRSTP) is based on ...

Cisco Systems Inc. last week announced a pair of switches that support Ethernet-based metropolitan-area networks and are aimed at network service providers looking to offer new capabilities to ...