AT&T, Verizon and tw telecom are leaders in the U.S. business Ethernet market based on billable port installations, Vertical Systems Group, the market research and strategic consulting firm, announced Monday. Other companies who ranked in Vertical's U.S. Business Ethernet Leaderboard included Cox Communications, XO Communications, CenturyLink, Time Warner Cable, Level 3 Communications and Cogent Communications. Boston-based Vertical, which ranks service providers that hold four percent or more o

Comcast’s Metro Ethernet network, introduced in May 2011, is targeted to business customers, including hospitals. The company can transport data at faster speeds than traditional phone company Internet connection, said Kevin O’Toole, Comcast’s senior vice president of product management and strategy for business services. A hospital can download a 500 megabyte digital X-ray in 40 seconds with Metro Ethernet, a file that would take 44 minutes to download with a slower connection, said Jennifer Khoury, a Comcast spokeswoman.

Comcast Business Services continues it march into the mid-size market with its Metro Ethernet service with the latest customer win coming from Widener University in Pennsylvania. In addition to cloud computing and Web-based educational tools for its 7,800 students and faculty, Widener University's use of Comcast's Ethernet service gave it a...

CableLabs, looking to speed up market introduction of Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) equipment, has launched an equipment certification program for its DOCSIS Provisioning of EPON (DPoE) project. “Having devices qualified by CableLabs promises to encourage widespread deployment of this new technology and lower costs to both cable operators and business customers by leveraging the [...]

If a new Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) project bears fruit, cable operators might be able to delay costly fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) deployments, or even avoid them altogether.

We may see more product sharing deals between telecom, cable TV, and satellite TV operators as each of these players are trying to get a foothold into the other's territory. Even, pay-TV services, offerings to business enterprises, and mobile backhaul and metro-Ethernet segments may witness more convergence.

Heavy Reading's Alan Breznick explains how MSOs intend to boost commercial revenues using Ethernet and cloud-based services

Comcast Corp. the largest cable MSO in the U.S., is aggressively exploiting small and mid-sized ( SMB ) business opportunities. The company is currently providing metro Ethernet services in 20 major U.S. markets and is expected to offer the services in most of its point-of-presences by the end of 2011

Cable service for business VoIP and cloud-based applications is improving. It might not be the equal of metro Ethernet or a wireline offering of SDSL or a T1, but, for many reasons, the services are improving.

New working group to tackle EPON protocol-over-coax (EPoC) with the goal of enabling cable companies initially to offer high-speed services over coax—and eventually boost residential broadband speeds

MetroE is "poised to do to legacy TDM-delivered data services what cable modems did to dial-up," O'Toole said of the technology's potential. That's because MetroE's bandwidth boost will be key to supplying revenue-driving cloud services because they require more data to run down the last-mile connection -- something that legacy TDM systems struggle with.

Cable companies have a major opportunity to win enterprise business away from telcos, but need to interconnect their networks to provide national coverage and deliver higher-quality customer service, Terry Canning, senior vice president of Canada-based Rogers Business Solutions, said here today.

U.S. cable continues to pry away the telcos' grip on the business services market, with MSOs poised to pull down about $6 billion in commercial revenues in 2011, according to Heavy Reading 's latest estimates.

With its metro Ethernet offerings, Comcast can deliver bandwidth from 1 Mbps up to 10 Gbps that can be remotely scaled in increments of 1 Mbps, 10 Mbps, 100 Mbps or 1 Gbps, and it's offered with three different classes of service.

Besides PAETEC, Level 3 (Nasdaq: LVLT) and Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) both recently won deals with the DIR, permitting them to sell Ethernet services to state government agencies. For more: - see the release

AT&T, Verizon and tw telecom are leaders in the U.S. business Ethernet market based on billable port installations, Vertical Systems Group, the market research and strategic consulting firm, announced Monday. Other companies who ranked in Vertical's U.S. Business Ethernet Leaderboard included Cox Communications, XO Communications, CenturyLink, Time Warner Cable, Level 3 Communications and Cogent Communications. Boston-based Vertical, which ranks service providers that hold four percent or more o

Comcast’s Metro Ethernet network, introduced in May 2011, is targeted to business customers, including hospitals. The company can transport data at faster speeds than traditional phone company Internet connection, said Kevin O’Toole, Comcast’s senior vice president of product management and strategy for business services. A hospital can download a 500 megabyte digital X-ray in 40 seconds with Metro Ethernet, a file that would take 44 minutes to download with a slower connection, said Jennifer Khoury, a Comcast spokeswoman.

Comcast Business Services continues it march into the mid-size market with its Metro Ethernet service with the latest customer win coming from Widener University in Pennsylvania. In addition to cloud computing and Web-based educational tools for its 7,800 students and faculty, Widener University's use of Comcast's Ethernet service gave it a...

CableLabs, looking to speed up market introduction of Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) equipment, has launched an equipment certification program for its DOCSIS Provisioning of EPON (DPoE) project. “Having devices qualified by CableLabs promises to encourage widespread deployment of this new technology and lower costs to both cable operators and business customers by leveraging the [...]

If a new Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) project bears fruit, cable operators might be able to delay costly fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) deployments, or even avoid them altogether.

We may see more product sharing deals between telecom, cable TV, and satellite TV operators as each of these players are trying to get a foothold into the other's territory. Even, pay-TV services, offerings to business enterprises, and mobile backhaul and metro-Ethernet segments may witness more convergence.

Heavy Reading's Alan Breznick explains how MSOs intend to boost commercial revenues using Ethernet and cloud-based services

Comcast Corp. the largest cable MSO in the U.S., is aggressively exploiting small and mid-sized ( SMB ) business opportunities. The company is currently providing metro Ethernet services in 20 major U.S. markets and is expected to offer the services in most of its point-of-presences by the end of 2011

Cable service for business VoIP and cloud-based applications is improving. It might not be the equal of metro Ethernet or a wireline offering of SDSL or a T1, but, for many reasons, the services are improving.

New working group to tackle EPON protocol-over-coax (EPoC) with the goal of enabling cable companies initially to offer high-speed services over coax—and eventually boost residential broadband speeds

MetroE is "poised to do to legacy TDM-delivered data services what cable modems did to dial-up," O'Toole said of the technology's potential. That's because MetroE's bandwidth boost will be key to supplying revenue-driving cloud services because they require more data to run down the last-mile connection -- something that legacy TDM systems struggle with.

Cable companies have a major opportunity to win enterprise business away from telcos, but need to interconnect their networks to provide national coverage and deliver higher-quality customer service, Terry Canning, senior vice president of Canada-based Rogers Business Solutions, said here today.

U.S. cable continues to pry away the telcos' grip on the business services market, with MSOs poised to pull down about $6 billion in commercial revenues in 2011, according to Heavy Reading 's latest estimates.

With its metro Ethernet offerings, Comcast can deliver bandwidth from 1 Mbps up to 10 Gbps that can be remotely scaled in increments of 1 Mbps, 10 Mbps, 100 Mbps or 1 Gbps, and it's offered with three different classes of service.

Besides PAETEC, Level 3 (Nasdaq: LVLT) and Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) both recently won deals with the DIR, permitting them to sell Ethernet services to state government agencies. For more: - see the release