Canadian operator MTS Allstream has joined the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF). MEF develops Carrier Ethernet technical specifications and implementation...

Everyone has a mobile phone. How many of you have a tablet? I won’t say iPad because some of you don’t have iPads but how many of you have a tablet? So that’s about 50/60%. And how many of you here have a laptop? Virtually everybody has at least a laptop and a mobile phone and most of you have a tablet. And you’re using them all? Do you have a problem if you can’t connect all of them to the Wi-Fi at the same time? That’s the problem I have. So for ...

The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) has unveiled the new Carrier Ethernet (CE 2.0) certification program in India following the launch of the Carrier Ethernet 2.0. This will further accelerate the case of the Carrier Ethernet services in India.

The Metro Ethernet Forum is seeing substantial industry response to the Carrier Ethernet 2.0 certification program launched April 30, according to MEF President Nan Chen. “The uptick has been pretty strong,” said Chen.  

May 1, 2012 Lightwave Staff The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) has launched a Carrier Ethernet 2.0 certification program for equipment vendors and service providers, complementing the recent launch of Carrier Ethernet 2.0 (CE 2.0). CE 2.0 expands the number of services from three in Carrier Ethernet 1.0 to eight services, and supports manageability across interconnected service provider networks – unlike the standardized CE 1.0 services

The Metro Ethernet Forum announced its new Carrier Ethernet 2.0 certification program. The 680 test cases in the new certification program replace months or even years of costly and highly specialized test development required for assuring compliance with the new CE 2.0 services, according to the industry group. Registration for CE 2.0 certification opens 30 April for equipment vendors and 28 May for service providers.

Please join us for the first in the 2012 series of webinars brought to you by Carrier Ethernet News to learn how service providers are Transforming Carrier Ethernet 2.0 Concepts into Business Winning Realities.  

NOTE: The date of this webinar has changed.  It is now May 16, 2012 at 14:00GMT (10am U.S. ET),

Stanley Hubbard, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading Featured Speakers: Nan Chen, President of MEF, Mike Haugh, Ixia; Bob Mandeville, Iometrix; Michael Tighe, AboveNet; Youcef Ayad, TeliaSonera; John Hawkins, Ciena; Craig Easley, Accedian Wednesday, May 02, 2012 11:00 a.m. New York / 4:00 p.m. London.  

Multi-COS at the heart of Carrier Ethernet 2.0, but some network operators question its value.  A striking contrast with many US operators who have been offering CoS successfully for years.

There's no question that Ethernet has become the accepted service of choice for data that service providers are using for their business and wholesale customers. But an emerging group of vendors, service providers and standards groups are driving a new generation of Ethernet called Connection-Oriented Ethernet (COE). Offering the deterministic qualities that traditional service providers love about SONET and the flexibility of Ethernet, COE has emerged as a high performance version of point-to-point Carrier Ethernet (CE). However, COE is not just one standard, but a collection of implementations that leverage Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), IEEE, IETF and ITU-T standards ...

Oi's subsidiary GlobeNet has received its MEF certification for its Carrier Ethernet services. This certification process verifies both the compliance and the performance of GlobeNet's Carrier Ethernet product portfolio. GlobeNet's completion of the certification process demonstrates its commitment to delivering standardised services.

There's no sunshine in Munich this week, but that's OK with Ethernet Europe folks, who are mostly interested in clouds anyway.  Ethernet's role in enabling new cloud services ecosystems is a major feature of the first day of the annual event, which moved this year to Munich, in advance of the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) meeting later this week. Four separate service provider keynotes and two panels will address the potential of cloud services but also the challenges in creating an on-demand network infrastructure to enable this next generation of services.

Comcast has long been delivering Ethernet over its existing coax lines to small and medium business customers. And the MSO's infrastructure has been key to providing wireless backhaul services for wireless operators.

Millegan Mike Millegan, Global President of Verizon Wholesale (NYSE: VZ), is operating in a unit that's transitioning to one where collaboration among other teams, including its government and traditional enterprise, is becoming more of the rule rather than the exception at the telco. Last December, Lowell McAdam decided to the realign the service provider's business, government and wholesale operations under one common organization. But corporate transitions are nothing new for Millegan. A 32-plus year veteran of the telecom industry, he began his work with the telco at GTE, a predecessor to Verizon Communications and one of the largest ...

Helping Bolster Carrier Ethernet Services in the Philippines 

The MEF-Carrier Ethernet Certified Professional Program (CECP) program was developed over the course of a year, including beta testing for four months with the help of exam psychometric specialists, then formally launched in June 2011 as the world’s only industry-body certification for Carrier Ethernet professionals.