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Video: Tam Dell'Oro explains how Carrier Ethernet has evolved
Explore youtube.com (May 22 2013)
Carrier Ethernet was also a topic of the event in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Ethernet. Tam Dell'Oro, founder and president of Dell'Oro group, explained at NetEvents' Ethernet Innovation Summit how carrier Ethernet has evolved.
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Global Capacity expands Carrier Ethernet reach with Overture
Explore FierceTelecom (May 22 2013)
Global Capacity, a network connectivity provider, has chosen Overture Networks' 6000 series platform to deliver Ethernet service to simultaneously deliver Ethernet and TDM-based services on one Ethernet interconnection, enabling it to reach more
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Mentions: EarthLink Overture Networks
EuNetworks delivers Carrier Ethernet connectivity from London to Basildon
Explore Telecompaper (May 17 2013)
(Telecompaper) European data network operator EuNetworks Group has built a diverse route from London to Basildon, supporting a connectivity requirement in the market. This connectivity service is now live and supporting customer's bandwidth requirements from 100Mbps Carrier Ethernet through 10Gbps Wavelengths. At the core of euNetworks capacity as a bandwidth infrastructure provider, is its thirteen fibre based city networks owned and operated across Western Europe. euNetworks' London metropolitan network enables customers to connect from their office building, a key data centre or exchange, through to NYSE Euronext with either Ethernet or Wavelengths services.
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Columbus, CWC set up JV in Caribbean, Americas
Explore Telecompaper (May 14 2013)
(Telecompaper) Columbus Networks and CWC Wholesale Solutions have created a joint venture to provide expanded wholesale bandwidth capacity to global, regional and local communications companies in the Caribbean and Americas Region. The joint venture company will be called CNL-CWC Networks. The joint venture’s services portfolio will span clear channel services, IP transit, carrier Ethernet and carrier MPLS.
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Carrier Switched Ethernet Nationwide Expansion
Explore Business ISP (May 13 2013)
The demand for Ethernet service and higher bandwidth hasn’t slowed down and as data consumption continues to climb, we anticipate carrier needs will climb just as rapidly. With access to our Carrier Switched Ethernet and other carrier products in major metro areas such as New York, Washington, Denver, Phoenix, Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Dallas (just to name a few), we’re confident we’re providing viable solutions for our carrier customers as they strive to meet the needs of their customers.
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Mentions: NuVox
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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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
Lumos Networks Becomes First U.S. Provider to Achieve CE 2.0 E-Access
Explore virtual-strategy.com (Apr 22 2013)
Less than a year after achieving CE 1.0 certification for its EPL and EVPL services, Lumos Networks is proud to announce that today it becomes the first U.S. provider to achieve CE 2.0 E-Access Certification. CE 2.0 certification marks another important milestone for Lumos Networks, already recognized as an industry leader in Ethernet services.
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Mentions: Metro Ethernet Forum
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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Global Capacity launches One Hub interconnection service
Explore Telecompaper (Apr 11 2013)
(Telecompaper) Global Capacity has introduced One Hub interconnection to its One Marketplace network...
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Mentions: Overture Networks
Windstream Takes Wholesale Carrier Ethernet Nationwide
Explore CEN Feature (Apr 9 2013)
Windstream Corp. recently announced the availability of its Carrier Switched Ethernet (CSE) service to wholesale customers across its entire footprint at last month’s COMPTEL PLUS. The Layer 2 virtual LAN service (VLS) is available via Ethernet over Copper or T1 connections, said Marty Key, Consultant for Little Rock, AR-based Windstream.
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Mentions: NuVox
Telekom Malaysia provides Ethernet to Redtone
Explore Telecompaper (Apr 2 2013)
(Telecompaper) Malaysian broadband services provider Redtone International and Telekom Malaysia have signed a wholesale Ethernet deal. Under the agreement, Redtone will be provided access to Telekom Malaysia's Metro-E infrastructure nationwide. Redtone says the collaboration will widen its coverage for its data and broadband services and strengthen its presence in the corporate and SME segment.
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CyrusOne deploys Texas Internet Exchange on-net platform
Explore Telecompaper (Apr 1 2013)
(Telecompaper) Global data centre services provider CyrusOne has introduced the CyrusOne Texas Internet Exchange (IX), an on-net platform deployed across CyrusOne facilities in Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio, Texas. The CyrusOne Texas IX delivers deep statewide interconnection between all metro-enabled sites within the CyrusOne facility footprint and beyond. The CyrusOne Texas IX enables customers to connect to their own enterprise-owned facilities and to third-party facilities to engage in the full ecosystem of business partners, content providers, networks, carriers, Internet service providers and Ethernet buyers and sellers.
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Alaska Garners Carrier Ethernet Kudos - CE2.0
Explore Welcome To Cable360 (Mar 20 2013)
Alaska Communications achieved the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) hat trick of being the first company in Alaska, the second in the United States and the third in the world to achieve certification and to offer certified Carrier Ethernet 2.0 (CE 2.0) services. CE 2.0 extends Carrier Ethernet by adding multiple classes of service, greater manageability; easier interconnect for eight standard service types and greater mobile-backhaul efficiency. “Our business customers have critical needs and require
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Alaska Communications gets CE 2.0 certification nod from MEF
Explore FierceTelecom (Mar 20 2013)
Alaska Communications is now the second U.S.-based service provider to achieve the Metro Ethernet Forum's (MEF) Carrier Ethernet 2.0 certification. Following Comcast Business ( Nasdaq: CMCSA ) in the United States and Telstra Wholesale in Australia , Alaska Communications is the third service provider in the world to have their services certified under the new MEF standard. CE 2.0 incorporates a ...
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Mentions: Quality of Service Metro Ethernet Forum Comcast Business Services
Comcast to offer Ethernet services in six Vermont towns
Explore Telecompaper (Mar 19 2013)
(Telecompaper) Cable operator Comcast has announced that its Ethernet services will be available in the coming weeks across six communities in Chittenden County, Vermont. Targeted for businesses with more than twenty employees, these services provide access to the company's new fibre network and speeds up to 10 Gbps. These six towns in northwest Vermont feature a large number of the state's businesses, ranging from snowboard manufacturers to global high technology companies. Comcast's network features a 100 Gbps backbone and pervasive, fibre-rich reach into its markets with an expanded local footprint through Ethernet over HFC. Comcast offers four ...
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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
Carrier Ethernet providers in the U.S. CLEC segment
Explore FierceTelecom (Mar 18 2013)
Here's an at-a-glance look at seven competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) that provide Carrier Ethernet services.
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Observations from Comptel PLUS Spring 2013 in Las Vegas this Week
Explore CEN Feature (Mar 14 2013)
COMPTEL PLUS, the annual gathering of competitive carriers and their ecosystem, took place this week in Las Vegas at the Aria Resort and Casino. As is usually the case at this well-orchestrated event, there were ample opportunities for networking and education on topics ranging from regulatory issues facing the carriers to Carrier Ethernet and Software Defined Networking. The following is a loose compilation of my observations and a few photos to spice things up a little.
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Mentions: Metro Ethernet Forum MegaPath Overture Networks
Telstra Wholesale joins the Carrier Ethernet 2.0 club
Explore FierceTelecom (Mar 13 2013)
Telstra Wholesale (ASX: TLS.AX) is the latest service provider to gain the Metro Ethernet Forum's (MEF's) Carrier Ethernet 2.0 (CE 2.0) certification for its new "Data Advantage" Ethernet Access and Ethernet backhaul products, which it debuted last August. The Data Advantage product line offers wholesale customers four primary products: managed leased line, Ethernet, Ethernet backhaul and point-to-point fiber services.
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Mentions: NTT Telstra Orange Business Services
Alpheus delivers Ethernet services to AireSpring
Explore Telecompaper (Mar 13 2013)
(Telecompaper) US-based metro-regional fibre and networking services Alpheus Communications will deliver Ethernet services to the US telecommunication carrier AireSpring as the company expands its MPLS and Ethernet services throughout Texas. AireSpring's MPLS Mesh product allows customers to combine multiple MPLS networks with a single SLA, single bill and single point of contact.
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Mentions: Alpheus Communications
Windstream Expands Carrier Ethernet
Explore Light Reading (Mar 11 2013)
To meet the increasing demand from carriers for higher bandwidth and Ethernet, Windstream Corp. (Nasdaq:WIN) announced today at COMPTEL PLUS a nationwide expansion of its Carrier Switched Ethernet service. This expansion will allow Windstream to have ubiquitous availability within its entire footprint through existing network interconnects.
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Mentions: NuVox
FairPoint extends wholesale Ethernet reach into Boston
Explore FierceTelecom (Mar 8 2013)
FairPoint (Nasdaq: FRP) on Thursday introduced a new wholesale Ethernet service option that will give businesses access from Boston to the company's northern New England network footprint in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. Offered out of the One Summer Street carrier hotel at One Summer Street in Boston, Carrier Ethernet Service (CES) Extended Connect will provide an access point for wholesale carrier customers who need an interconnection into northern New England.
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Mentions: sidera Comcast Business Services
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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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