As service providers look to transition to an all-packet based network, the Packet Optical Transport System (P-OTS) has emerged as the mechanism that can support packet transport services such as Carrier Ethernet and MPLS over optical networks.

GTS Central Europe (GTS), provider of integrated telecommunications and data centres, has expanded its Ethernet services into new markets...

Overture's appointment of new sales leads to oversee four key EMEA-APAC regions--including India, Italy, Malaysia and Russia--instantly gives the vendor locally-based support to serve new growth opportunities outside of North America, the company said Tuesday. The naming of these new sales managers follows similar moves to bolster its sales efforts in both Canada and the Caribbean and the Latin American markets. Its international expansion is in-line with the goals the company set when it launched its rebranding initiative in February, following its acquisition of Hatteras Networks. "We've always done well in the U.S. and have had good ...

Bruno Jacobfeuerborn, is the CTO of Deutsche Telekom, Germany, one of the largest operators in Europe. Jacobfeuerborn is delivering a keynote on Day One of the LTE World Summit 2012 taking place on the 23-24 May 2012 CCIB, Barcelona, Spain. Ahead of the conference, Jacobfeuerborn presents his take on where the operators stand with regard to LTE.

Equinix (Nasdaq: EQIX) is bolstering its Asia Pacific data-center holdings by acquiring Hong Kong-based data center provider Asia Tone for $230.5 million. By purchasing Asia Tone, Equinix immediately adds five data centers and one disaster recovery center, in addition to one data center under construction in three markets: Hong Kong, Shanghai and Singapore. Asia Tone's current customer base includes a number of existing Equinix customers.

Citing booming bandwidth demand for Brazil and Latin America, colocation provider Equinix will build a new International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Boca Raton, Florida.

Ethernet services remain far more expensive in Asia than Europe and North America, as a result of limited availability and competition, research shows.  

The who’s who of Carrier Ethernet Europe gathered last week in Munich for the annual Light Reading Ethernet Europe.  Collocated with the MEF’s quarterly members’ meeting, this year’s event lived up to its billing as the premier Carrier Ethernet event in EMEA.

My schedule only allowed for a couple of brief visits into town which naturally included the requisite visit to the legendary Hofbrauhaus, for a few um-pa-pa’s, a very large stein of beer and some rockin’ pretzels.   

But the real highlight of the week was Carrier Ethernet.  In this post, I’ll recap a few ...

See who was movin' and shakin' at the Ethernet Europe event in Munich - and see how much the German city looks like a chocolate box...

Vodafone believes C&W Worldwide's operations will help it strengthen its enterprise business in the U.K. and provide it with valuable network assets in the U.K. and internationally that will help reduce its reliance on others' infrastructure and thus help reduce its costs. C&W Worldwide has about 6,000 enterprise and carrier customers globally to which it provides a range of voice and data services, including IP, Ethernet and cloud services.

Alpheus Leveraging a mix of copper, fiber and Ethernet-based services, Alpheus has become a viable alternative wholesale provider to wireline and wireless operators in the Dallas, Austin, San Antonio and Houston (aka DASH) markets. Over its copper and fiber network infrastructure, the service provider can offer an entire suite of products, including Ethernet services, Internet, dark fiber and managed wavelength services at speeds that can scale from DS-1 to OC-192. In particular, the service provider has seen its greatest demand from wireless operators expanding their 4G/LTE buildouts that are increasingly migrating from SONET-based services to Ethernet.

More than 300 Carrier Ethernet executives have been in Bavaria this week for Ethernet Europe, where operators, analysts and vendors have been debating the future of networks, services and applications management. 

What were the highlights of Ethernet Europe's tag eins (day one) in Munich?

The annual Ethernet Europe event has gone to Munich for the first time – find out what's on the menu, apart from bier and knackwurste

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.