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Articles in category: Mobile Backhaul
Comcast Makes Hay With Metro Ethernet
Explore Light Reading (Oct 26 2012)
The decision by Comcast Corp. (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) to move up-market to serve mid-sized businesses with more than 20 employees appears to be paying off, as the category now represents about 15 percent of the company's business services revenues.
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VSG: Business Ethernet dominates legacy
Explore FierceTelecom (Oct 26 2012)
According to a new Vertical Systems Group report, Ethernet bandwidth purchased by businesses has surged since 2011, when it first surpassed the bandwidth purchased on legacy data networks. "Global growth for legacy bandwidth is flattening, while Ethernet bandwidth continues to mount at a healthy double-digit pace," said Rosemary Cochran, principal at Vertical Systems Group.
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Mentions: Vertical Systems Group Infonetics
Business Ethernet bandwidth use soars
Explore telecomsemea.net (Oct 25 2012)
The amount of bandwidth used for business Ethernet service connections is now far higher than that used for legacy data services, research and consultancy firm Vertical Systems Group claims read more
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Infonetics: Mobile backhaul spending to equal $44B over 5 years
Explore Lightwave Online (Oct 25 2012)
Market research firm Infonetics Research is bullish about the prospects for the mobile backhaul equipment market, according to its latest report, Macrocell Mobile Backhaul Equipment and Service. Globally, Infonetics forecasts the macrocell mobile backhaul equipment market to grow to $9.7 billion by 2016
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Mentions: Infonetics Juniper Overture Networks
Karen Schmidt, Comcast Business Services
Explore FierceTelecom (Oct 23 2012)
As Karen Schmidt, Executive Director of Product Management and Strategy, Comcast Business Services (Nasdaq: CMCSA), sees it, Verizon's (NYSE: VZ) recent mandate to migrate its existing Frame Relay service to IP is a new opportunity to win more customers. Unlike Verizon, Comcast Business has no legacy customer service base to maintain, putting it in a position to offer Ethernet and IP-based services from the get go. "It sort of reflects where the market is going, and the market is going towards E
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Mentions: Cox Business Comcast Business Services
Carrier Ethernet 2.0 Enables Class of Service Capability for FairPoint
Explore CEN Feature (Oct 16 2012)
The Carrier Ethernet 2.0 initiative gained a supporter this month when FairPoint – which is the incumbent local exchange carrier throughout a large part of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont – announced that its wholesale E-Line Carrier Ethernet services would support the new standard in those markets.
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Case Study: Lumos paves a new wireless backhaul path
Explore FierceTelecom (Oct 11 2012)
Today, Lumos can target potentially 2,000 cell sites that are within three miles of its existing fiber network. In tandem with its FTTT build out, the telco has been simultaneously expanding its on-net fiber reach into more buildings to provide Metro Ethernet and other IP-based voice services like VoIP. At the end of Q2 2012, the service provider had a total of 1,091 on-net buildings connected to its fiber network.
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Mentions: Qwest Frontier Communications
Carrier Ethernet services drive new assurance requirements to compete effectively
Explore TelecomEngine.com (Oct 8 2012)
When it comes to business connectivity, Ethernet's central driver continues to be its ability to meet growing bandwidth demands at lower cost and with greater flexibility than competing legacy services. Applications vary from wireless backhaul and basic Internet connections to delivering enterprise applications and providing access to cloud infrastructure. That translates into a big revenue opportunity for communications service providers (CSPs) – if they can provide the right level of customer
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RST Global Communications plans to light up the Carolinas
Explore Lightwave Online (Oct 8 2012)
Executives at emerging fiber-based service provider RST Global Communications say they nearly have completed the first phase of a fiber-optic network roll out in southwestern North Carolina and now have set their sights on expansion – both in footprint and service mix.
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FairPoint unveils its new wholesale carrier Ethernet Service 2.0
Explore FierceTelecom (Oct 4 2012)
FairPoint Communications (Nasdaq: FRP) has launched its new Carrier Ethernet Services (CES) 2.0 service. Designed to serve its wholesale carrier customer base, including wireless backhaul customers, the CES 2.0 service includes a Class of Service (CoS) capability that allows customers to prioritize traffic based on application. "This is valuable because wholesale customers (i.e., CLECs/RLECs/ILECs/wireless) buying the service to resell or combine with their networks can easily extend the CoS to their customers," said Roopashree Honnachari, program manager of business communication services at Frost & Sullivan,
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Mentions: SLA Frost & Sullivan EarthLink
Carrier Ethernet networks in Vietnam «
Explore iirtransmissionseries.wordpress.com (Oct 3 2012)
Georgios Kipouros, Conference Manager at IIR, and producer of our Carrier Ethernet APAC event, recently spoke to Phan Thao Nguyen, Deputy Director at VNPT (Vietnam Post and Telecommunications Group) about the development of Carrier Ethernet networks in his country, and how he will be discussing this at CE APAC this December. Here’s what he had to say: What are the service trends with CE in your market and what is the expected growth potential? In Vietnam, Carrier Ethernet is currently playing a
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It's a bumpy road to high-speed networking
Explore Embedded Systems Design (Sep 28 2012)
An increasing number of cellular subscribers and the greater data bandwidth per subscriber are driving higher bandwidth in the mobile backhaul. Cellular data is backhauled from base stations and remote controllers using various technologies. These technologies include T1 lines, microwave transmission, Ethernet over SONET, Ethernet over OTN (optical transport network), or PON (passive optical transport) networks.
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Mentions: IEEE
Integra Backs Up Enterprise VPN Service with Verizon Wireless
Explore CEN Feature (Sep 27 2012)
With a single shovel stroke, an elderly woman scavenging for copper in the Eastern European country of Georgia took out the Internet for everyone in Armenia. That’s just one example of the myriad things that can take down an enterprise’s broadband services.
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Carrier Ethernet and Cloud: a Profitable Combination «
Explore iirtransmissionseries.wordpress.com (Sep 25 2012)
Operators that combine cloud services with Carrier Ethernet are on a path to top-line growth that non-carriers will be unable to follow. While the CE market has benefited from strong demand in mobile backhaul and data center interconnect, this growth will slow and price pressure will continue to build. Informa believes carriers can create differentiation by selling cloud computing and storage along with optimal connectivity. Cloud services have yet to generate significant revenues directly – Inf
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Mobile Backhaul - Overture Appoints New CEO
Explore Light Reading (Sep 24 2012)
Carrier Ethernet access market leader Overture Networks Inc. has named Mike Aquino as its new president and CEO, with incumbent chief executive Jeff Reedy sliding along the management table to become chief strategy officer.
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Mentions: Overture Networks Overture Networks Inc.
Carrier Ethernet Awards EMEA 2012 Photos «
Explore iirtransmissionseries.wordpress.com (Sep 19 2012)
The Carrier Ethernet EMEA Awards reception took place last night (18th September) in the cocktail patio garden of the lovely Fira Palace hotel in Barcelona. The full run-down of winners is here, but scroll on down for some photos from the event. The evening started with a flamenco guitar and dance show Guests chatted over some locally-sourced tapas and cava IIR Telecoms Conference Manager Georgios Kipouros opens proceedings Overture Networks receive their award for Best Carrier Ethernet Demarcat
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Mobile Backhaul Drives Ericsson Investment in CENX
Explore CEN Feature (Sep 18 2012)
Carrier Ethernet exchange operator CENX announced this week that wireless equipment manufacturer Ericsson has made a strategic investment in the company. Ericsson was among several companies – including Verizon – that participated in a $9.5 million round of funding that CENX picked up earlier this year.
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The Evolution of Carrier Ethernet 2.0
Explore iirtransmissionseries.wordpress.com (Sep 14 2012)
The MEF launched Carrier Ethernet 2.0 (CE 2.0) in February 2012. The MEF’s latest re-invention of Ethernet will enable Ethernet services grow from today’s $USD 28 billion global market up to a $USD 48 billion by 2016. CE 2.0 is about taking Ethernet up another level. The fundamental tenets of CE 2.0 are intelligently supporting data-centric mobile services, facilitating cost efficient inter-carrier interconnection and enabling secure cloud services.
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Mentions: Metro Ethernet Forum
Operators Increasingly Turn to Switched Video Transport
Explore Billing and OSS World (Sep 13 2012)
Many larger operators are now depending on Ethernet-based networks to meet this demand. There are a plethora of technology possibilities available and changing requirements can make these choices very challenging.
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IEEE issues updated 802.3 Ethernet standard
Explore Lightwave Online (Sep 13 2012)
The IEEE has approved the IEEE 802.3-2012 “Standard for Ethernet,” which defines wired connectivity for Ethernet local area, access, and metropolitan area networks. The new IEEE 802.3 revision approved by the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) incorporates various technical updates and enhancements and consolidates a host of amendments to the base standard that were approved since IEEE 802.3’s ...
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Sizing up the top US telcos in Q2 2012
Explore FierceTelecom (Sep 4 2012)
With the Q2 2012 earnings season coming to an end, FierceTelecom has put together a summary of the performance of the top incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs). As seen in previous quarters, ILECs are finding ways to offset ongoing wireline voice loss by emphasizing the sales of IP-based business and consumer services, including broadband data, video and Ethernet ...
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Small Cells Mean Big Backhaul Opportunities – and Challenges
Explore CEN Feature (Aug 30 2012)
Small cells are a niche play today, but by 2016, they’ll ship at a rate of about 3 million annually, Infonetics predicts. That’s not only a lot of backhaul, but it’s also a different type. For example, while a macrocell might have a backhaul link of 100 to 300 Mbps, each microcell or picocell requires less.
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Mentions: Infonetics Overture Networks tw telecom
FCC temporarily suspends effort to deregulate special access
Explore FierceTelecom (Aug 24 2012)
tw telecom, a Colorado-based CLEC, believes this measure is a step in the right direction. Although tw telecom has aggressively built out its own fiber-based Ethernet network targeting businesses, it still has to rent last mile network facilities from the large incumbent players like AT&T and Verizon.
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Service OAM: Too Much of a Good Thing?
Explore CEN Feature (Aug 23 2012)
Knowledge is power. It also can be overwhelming. Just ask any service provider that’s turned on a new set of Ethernet service operations, administration and maintenance (SOAM) tools. But it’s becoming a fact of life as Carrier Ethernet matures into a major player in markets such as cellular backhaul, where success increasingly hinges on the ability to meet customer QoS requirements.
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Mentions: OAM Metro Ethernet Forum Overture Networks
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laurabicom » CLECs to ILECs: Don't hang up your copper networks!
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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