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Some Euro Carriers Cool on Complex Class of Service
Explore Light Reading (Apr 24 2012)
Multi-COS at the heart of Carrier Ethernet 2.0, but some network operators question its value. A striking contrast with many US operators who have been offering CoS successfully for years.
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Photos: Ethernet Europe 2012 Part II
Explore Light Reading (Apr 23 2012)
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...
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Vodafone Offers GB pound 1B for C&W Worldwide
Explore Light Reading (Apr 23 2012)
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.
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Photos: Ethernet Europe
Explore Light Reading (Apr 18 2012)
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.
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Ethernet Europe: Best of the Wurst
Explore Light Reading (Apr 17 2012)
Chiosi at Ethernet Europe: Data Drive Demands SDNs
Explore Light Reading (Apr 17 2012)
At Ethernet Europe, AT&T's Margaret Chiosi recalls voice network's move to software-defined networks and says it's data's turn now
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VIDEO: Ethernet Europe A Go-Go
Explore Light Reading (Apr 17 2012)
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
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Euronews: D Telekom Joins Ethernet Exchange
Explore Light Reading (Apr 17 2012)
In today's EMEA roundup: Deutsche Telekom sees the Ethernet light; Telefonica goes gaming; Vodafone calls for referee in Indian tax dispute
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Mentions: Telefónica Deutsche Telekom Vodafone Group
Clouds Gather Over Ethernet Europe
Explore Light Reading (Apr 16 2012)
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.
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4G (Finally) Starting to Boost US Capex Spend?
Explore Light Reading (Mar 27 2012)
2012 could be the first year of all the major operators 'aggressively spending' as LTE deployments grow, Jefferies analyst suggests in new research. LTE is the focus of much of the spending for the operators. Notter suggests that AT&T is predicted to increase LTE spend up to two times this year, with a corresponding spend on Ethernet cell-site backhaul expected. The operator may cut back on its 3G spend as it turns on more 4G.
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Mentions: Sprint Nextel Corp.
Peeking Ahead Into Terabit Ethernet
Explore Light Reading (Mar 7 2012)
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
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Telco Giants Boast Optical Breakthroughs
Explore Light Reading (Mar 7 2012)
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.)
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Mentions: NTT Deutsche Telekom
Ethernet Europe 2012 – Event Preview
Explore Light Reading (Feb 29 2012)
On April 17 and 18, 2012, industry professionals from companies across Europe and around the world will gather at the Hilton Munich Park Hotel in Germany for Light Reading's Ethernet Europe 2012, one of the largest networking events in EMEA focused on Carrier Ethernet-related services and Carrier Ethernet, MPLS, and packet optical network technologies.
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Mentions: Cyan Deutsche Telekom Heavy Reading
Timing the Terabit Standard
Explore Light Reading (Feb 24 2012)
Even though terabit work is already underway, it might not be too early to start worrying
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Mentions: IEEE
MEF Sticks a '2.0' on Carrier Ethernet
Explore Light Reading (Feb 23 2012)
The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) is announcing Carrier Ethernet 2.0 on Thursday -- a blanket name for new specifications that will enable improved Ethernet service interconnect between carriers.
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Light Reading: 5 Things We Hope 'New Ethernet' Might Be
Explore Light Reading (Feb 22 2012)
A silly list from two silly people who didn't want to wait until tomorrow to get an angle on the 'new Ethernet'
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5 Takeaways From Carrier Cloud Forum
Explore Light Reading (Feb 14 2012)
There is still a significant BSS/OSS challenge for cloud: Making MPLS and Carrier Ethernet services into on-demand offers to match the expectations of the cloud crowd is not a simple proposition, nor is adding on-demand capabilities to existing portals.
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MEF Starts Thinking Cloud
Explore Light Reading (Feb 13 2012)
Everyone else is obsessing over the cloud, so why not the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF)? The MEF has been thinking about cloud standards for some time, and one problem is that there are so many possible things to try to standardize. The prioritization phase is happening now
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Mentions: Metro Ethernet Forum
Can NSN Offload Its Carrier Ethernet Assets?
Explore Light Reading (Feb 9 2012)
NSN's Carrier Ethernet gear and management system are on its 'for sale' list, with joint venture partner Juniper seen as the most likely suitor
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Metcalfe to Unveil 'New Ethernet'
Explore Light Reading (Feb 9 2012)
Bob 'The Father of Ethernet' Metcalfe is to announce 'A New Ethernet' on Feb 23. Could this be a case of the Emperor's New Clothes?
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Mentions: Congress University of Texas Metro Ethernet Forum
Ethernet -vs- MPLS-TP: is a Storm Brewing in Paris?
Explore Light Reading (Feb 6 2012)
Attendees at this week's MPLS and Ethernet World Congress in Paris look like they're in for a combative treat on Thursday when, after hours of presentations about the capabilities of MPLS-TP, RAD Data Communications Ltd. CTO Yaakov Stein will take to the stage to explain why Ethernet "retains a strong advantage over MPLS-TP in the access [network]."
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Mentions: Congress
Verizon Plots 5 New LTE Markets
Explore Light Reading (Jan 18 2012)
Verizon hits smaller towns and expands markets in the south with its latest 4G LTE update (Read Full Article)
Mentions: IBM
Carriers Want 100G Everywhere
Explore Light Reading (Jan 11 2012)
An Infonetics survey suggests the optical 40G craze will be short-lived, as expected. The study confirmed that 40Gbit/s is being viewed as a stopgap, something to be replaced by 100Gbit/s once the latter is more widely available. Schmitt has been arguing for a couple of years that the 40Gbit/s generation will be a short one.
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Mentions: Yankee Group IBM Infonetics
EPON-Over-Coax Starts Its Standards Journey
Explore Light Reading (Jan 11 2012)
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.
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Mentions: Yankee Group IBM CableLabs
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