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 ...

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 ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

Vijay Kulkarni, CEO of GL Communications, states, “GL’s SonetExpert ™ is a powerful network testing solution for generating and monitoring traffic over SONET and SDH networks. It enables real-time ...

The Internet Protocol is growing in wide-area networks (WANs). That doesn't mean that Sonet/ SDH systems are going away, though. These reliable, secure, and fast systems will continue to form the ...

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 .

The start-up now offers two versions of its product that service providers can use to upgrade their metropolitan networks to Ethernet. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, ...

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 ...