Carrier Ethernet will be part and parcel of many of the nine educational tracks at the Telecommunications Industry Association’s second annual TIA 2012: Inside the Network Conference & Exhibition. The technology is integral to most of the topics that are on the schedule, according to Tim Downs, Content Director, TIA2012: Inside the Network Conference & Exhibition.  

After regrouping with the webinar presenters, we have successfully rescheduled the webinar entitled "Transforming Carrier Ethernet 2.0 Concepts into Business Winning Realities."  The new date is Wednesday, May 16 at 14:00 GMT (10am U.S. ET).

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

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 ...

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

With Carrier Ethernet 2.0 certification set to begin in Q2, the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) specification is poised to take the Ethernet world by storm. The specification is a Godsend of sorts to carriers and enterprises that are deploying Carrier Ethernet to meet their burgeoning data networking needs, according to Sam Masud, principal of Q3 Analytix, a Washington, D.C.-based market research firm.  

Operators looking to improve mobile broadband coverage and capacity will drive the small cell market in the years ahead, with three million small cells being shipped by 2016, valuing the market at $2.1 billion (€1.58 billion), according to a new year-long study conducted by Infonetics Research. Alcatel-Lucent's 9363 Urban Metro Cell at the Gare du Nord train station in Paris. "Mobile broadband is shifting the game to capacity upgrades," Stéphane Téral, principal analyst for mobile infrastructure and carrier economics at Infonetics. Téral notes that the major objective for operators is to complement and enhance the macrocell layer ...

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Low-loss waveguides (to fend off a power crisis in 2018) and radical modulation tricks are on researcher Dan Blumenthal's mind.  Researchers at the Terabit Optical Ethernet Center (TOEC) have made good progress there, as Dan Blumenthal, the center's director, told Light Reading at the OSA Executive Forum Monday

Deutsche Telekom, Huawei and NTT are all shouting loudly about their latest optical transmission developments.  Over in Japan, the R&D team at NTT are excited about "an optical amplification technology that provides inexpensive wide dynamic range optical amplifiers and can handle burst signals generated in Ethernet PON systems." The result is the ability to offer 10Gbit/s services over access networks at up to 100 km. NTT will be presenting its findings at OFC/NFOEC on Thursday March 8. (See NTT Trials 10G PON at 100km.)

Vendors are broadly agreed that integrated wifi will be an essential element in any small cell strategy, although there is little consensus when it comes to the choice of backhaul technology. Differentiation meanwhile is building around the various deployment strategies, and the management and co-ordination of small cell deployments in the macro network environment. And while the large OEMs are stressing the importance of end-to-end capabilities, opportunities still exist for smaller providers from small cell developers to integrated software, network optimization and backhaul suppliers.

The conference sessions at this year’s Metro Connect in Miami had a great mix of speakers and topics ranging from regulatory issues to mergers and acquisitions to basic business and technical challenges facing service providers and metro operators as they interconnect with each other.