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Telecom Italia Sees Wholesale Opportunities from Carrier Ethernet 2.0-Certification
Explore CEN Feature (May 21 2013)
The first European service provider to obtain Carrier Ethernet 2.0 certification is Telecom Italia. Company executives believe the new certification will have strong appeal to wholesale customers, including international carriers who need connectivity in Italy for serving multi-national businesses as well as alternative carriers and branches of public utilities that offer telecom services.
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Mentions: Metro Ethernet Forum
Carrier Ethernet 2.0 Comes to Silicon
Explore CEN Feature (May 14 2013)
The Carrier Ethernet 2.0 standard has gained some serious momentum in recent months, with numerous manufacturers and service providers having gained Carrier Ethernet 2.0 certification from the Metro Ethernet Forum. Silicon vendors also are getting serious about the technology, as a late-April announcement from Vitesse illustrates.
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Mentions: Overture Networks Vitesse
Lumos Networks Sees Carrier Ethernet 2.0 Certification Simplifying Transactions
Explore CEN Feature (May 7 2013)
Lumos Networks expects to find it easier to sell Carrier Ethernet connections to and buy them from other carriers now that the company has received Carrier Ethernet 2.0 certification for E-Access services.
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Verizon CTO: Future Services Will be Based on Four Key Platforms
Explore Telecompetitor (Apr 30 2013)
Verizon CTO: Future Services Will be Based on Four Key Platforms Future Verizon services will be built on one of four “foundational platforms,” said Verizon Chief Technology Officer Tony Melone, addressing attendees at Genband Perspectives13 in Orlando today. Those four platforms, he said, include the company’s 4G LTE network, FiOS, data centers operated under the Terremark name and the company’s IP backbone.
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Mentions: Joan Engebretson
Alaska Communications Joins Elite Group of Carrier Ethernet 2.0-Certified Carriers
Explore CEN Feature (Apr 30 2013)
One of the first companies in the world to receive Carrier Ethernet 2.0 certification might come as a bit of a surprise. It’s not a global telecom or data service provider or even a nationwide carrier.
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Mentions: Telstra
Carrier Ethernet Helps Fuel Growth for Interxion Data Centers, Lures Sprint
Explore CEN Feature (Apr 16 2013)
Today’s announcement that Sprint has decided to establish a Carrier Ethernet point of presence in a Madrid data center operated by Interxion might initially appear to be no big deal – but what makes it notable is that it involves an investment in Spain at a time when Europe is in the midst of an economic crisis.
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Global Capacity “One Hub” Supports TDM and Ethernet on a Single Link
Explore CEN Feature (Apr 11 2013)
Global Capacity hopes to better address the needs of enterprises that require a mixture of Carrier Ethernet and TDM services with a new offering called One Hub announced yesterday. The company offers both types of connectivity through its One Marketplace offering, but previously customers had to buy a separate connection into the One Marketplace hub for each service type.
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Australia’s AAPT Launches 80 Gbps Carrier Ethernet over Copper
Explore CEN Feature (Apr 2 2013)
Australian competitive carrier AAPT recently expanded its data offerings to include mid-band Carrier Ethernet service at 80 Mbps using eight pairs of copper phone wiring. The company expects the move to open up opportunities to connect branch offices for companies that previously were only able to use Carrier Ethernet for their headquarter locations.
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Mentions: Telstra
Take Five with Rosemary Cochran
Explore CEN Feature (Mar 26 2013)
Rosemary Cochran, co-founder and principal of Vertical Systems Group, was one of a select group of analysts that Carrier Ethernet News connected with at the Metro Ethernet Forum quarterly meeting and Carrier Ethernet Summit in San Diego in January. We talked to her about Carrier Ethernet 2.0, the cloud and software defined networking.
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Mentions: Vertical Systems Group Metro Ethernet Forum Carrier Ethernet News
FairPoint Breaks Out of its Footprint with Extended Connect
Explore CEN Feature (Mar 19 2013)
A new wholesale Carrier Ethernet offering from FairPoint Communications enables the company to provide connections to end users who require connectivity to locations outside the company’s local service territory. To support the new offering, FairPoint has established a connection from its northern New England network to One Summer Street, a popular carrier meeting point in Boston.
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Mentions: FairPoint Communications
CenturyLink VP Shares Rationale for 100G Network Upgrade
Explore Telecompetitor (Mar 18 2013)
CenturyLink VP Shares Rationale for 100G Network Upgrade Data center connectivity requirements and burgeoning residential broadband traffic are driving CenturyLink’s 100G packet optical network expansion announced today. “Deploying 10G has become too much work,” said Pieter Poll, CenturyLink senior vice president of national and international network planning, engineering and construction, in an...
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Mentions: Joan Engebretson
Take Five with Nav Chander
Explore CEN Feature (Mar 5 2013)
Carrier Ethernet News caught up with Nav Chander at the recent Metro Ethernet Forum quarterly meeting. As research manager for telecom business services and associated carrier network infrastructure within IDC's Worldwide Telecom Division, Chander is closely focused on Carrier Ethernet services.
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Mentions: IDC Metro Ethernet Forum tw telecom
CENX Reinvents Itself as a Software Company
Explore CEN Feature (Feb 19 2013)
CENX is experiencing “a natural evolution from interconnect service provider to now being an interconnect solutions provider,” said Ed Ogonek, the company’s new president and CEO, answering questions from reporters at the Metro Ethernet Forum’s quarterly meeting in San Diego on January 29.
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Mentions: Metro Ethernet Forum
Frontier Exec Shares Details of new Wholesale Ethernet Offering
Explore Telecompetitor (Feb 5 2013)
Frontier is getting serious about the Carrier Ethernet wholesale opportunity, today announcing its first broadly available wholesale Carrier Ethernet service, which will be a best-effort Ethernet virtual private line (EVPL) offering dubbed EVPL Silver. In an interview, Frontier executive Lisa R. Partridge told Telecompetitor that Frontier plans to add a priority EVPL Gold offering during the second quarter of 2013, followed by a Platinum real-time offering during third quarter.
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Mentions: Frontier Joan Engebretson
FairPoint Taps Ethernet for Challenging Observatory Installation
Explore Telecompetitor (Jan 31 2013)
FairPoint Taps Ethernet for Challenging Observatory Installation The day after attending a Metro Ethernet Forum event that touted new opportunities for carriers in Carrier Ethernet, I ran across a real world example from FairPoint Communications. The company completed a big network modernization project based on Carrier Ethernet at New Hampshire’s Mount Washington Observatory.
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Mentions: FairPoint Communications Joan Engebretson
Carrier Ethernet Summit: Metcalfe, 20 Vendors Celebrate 2.0 Certification
Explore CEN Feature (Jan 31 2013)
The Carrier Ethernet 2.0 set of standards gained some traction this week when the Metro Ethernet Forum announced that 20 equipment vendors had been Carrier Ethernet 2.0-certified.
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Mentions: Metro Ethernet Forum
Carrier Ethernet 2.0 Offers New Options for Smaller Carriers
Explore Telecompetitor (Jan 30 2013)
Carrier Ethernet traffic now exceeds the total volume of T-1, ATM and frame relay traffic, according to the Metro Ethernet Forum – and the MEF hopes to push that number even further by expanding the applications that Carrier Ethernet can support and expanding the pool of carriers offering Carrier Ethernet services.
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Mentions: Juniper Metro Ethernet Forum Joan Engebretson
Fairpoint Exec Touts Carrier Ethernet Backhaul Successes
Explore CEN Feature (Jan 24 2013)
As we’ve noted in previous posts, mobile backhaul based on Carrier Ethernet is an excellent opportunity for incumbent local telcos, enabling those that don’t have a mobile business to participate in the mobile data boom. No incumbent carrier seems to be taking that opportunity more seriously than Fairpoint Communications, as I learned from a recent interview with Fairpoint Vice President of Wholesale Sales Michelle Hymson.
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Mentions: FairPoint Communications
tw telecom Launches MEF 33 Carrier Ethernet Access Service
Explore CEN Feature (Jan 22 2013)
Thanks to the MEF 33 standard approved last year, tw telecom is now able to offer its wholesale customers a new option when they need Carrier Ethernet connectivity to markets where they don’t have their own infrastructure. The service is called E-Access and it enables tw telecom’s carrier customers to interconnect with tw telecom in a single market and gain connectivity to buildings in any of its other 74 markets.
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Mentions: tw telecom
Spectrotel Touts Resale Approach to Carrier Ethernet Services
Explore CEN Feature (Jan 15 2013)
Spectrotel, which has been reselling TDM-based voice and data services since the mid-1990s, added Carrier Ethernet offerings in 2012. After launching Ethernet private line (EPL) and transparent LAN service early in the year, the company in December added dedicated Internet access based on Ethernet over fiber.
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What’s In Store for Carrier Ethernet in 2013
Explore CEN Feature (Jan 3 2013)
Carrier Ethernet has been on a steep growth curve that shows no signs of stopping in 2013. As we look ahead to the new year, here are some of the developments we’re likely to see.
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Mentions: NTT IDC Infonetics
The Most Compelling Carrier Ethernet Developments of 2012
Explore CEN Feature (Dec 13 2012)
2012 has been a big year for Carrier Ethernet, which continues to be one of the fastest growing areas within the telecom industry. I took a look back through the Carrier Ethernet News archives and pulled out what I would consider the most compelling developments for the year.
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Mentions: Tata Overture Networks Scott Knox
Infonetics Sees Strong Growth for Copper-Based Ethernet Access Devices
Explore CEN Feature (Dec 4 2012)
Carrier Ethernet access devices (EADs) that use Ethernet-in-the-first mile (EFM) are the fastest growing of the three distinct EAD types, according to new research from Infonetics. EADs based on EFM deliver Carrier Ethernet service over one or more ordinary copper loops, supporting higher bandwidth than EADs that use one or more T-1 or E-1 links for Carrier Ethernet service delivery.
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Mentions: Infonetics
MegaPath Aims to Broaden Customer Base with Extended Ethernet
Explore CEN Feature (Nov 27 2012)
MegaPath aims to expand its addressable market with the extended Carrier Ethernet offering that it launched earlier this month. As MegaPath Vice President of Product Management for Network Services Pasha Mohammed explained in an interview, the new offering uses up to eight T-1 circuits from the incumbent carrier to deliver Carrier Ethernet services to areas that are beyond the reach of the Ethernet-over-copper services the company currently offers using unbundled copper wiring from the incumbent.
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Mentions: MegaPath
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Good article, thanks for posting. We also have an article on CLEC: http://blog.bicomsystems.com/clec
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I also had the honor to participate in the Conference. I spoke on the topic ...
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