Ethernet Exchanges Attracting Mostly Sellers

Explore Light Reading (Oct 4 2011) Cloud , Wholesale , Heavy Reading

Competitive carriers continue to sign up to Ethernet exchanges, but even they admit the "exchange" idea remains a one-way notion. (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Equinix Inc.   CENX Inc.   Zayo

HR Launches Global Ethernet Executive Council

Explore Light Reading (Sep 6 2011) Event Related , Middle Mile , Business Ethernet , Cable / MSO , National , Heavy Reading

Heavy Reading unveils new community of service and technology experts shaping the Carrier Ethernet and cloud services markets. Heavy Reading has created the Ethernet Executive Council to honor individuals who have demonstrated industry leadership and a personal commitment to advancing the use of high-performance Ethernet services and technologies for the benefit of retail, wholesale and consumer customers. Among other things, the program will provide Council members with exclusive networking, speaking ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   AT&T Inc.   IBM   Verizon Communications Inc.

Where's the Mobile Love for Carrier Ethernet Exchanges?

Explore Light Reading (Aug 10 2011) Access , Business Ethernet , Mobile Backhaul , Heavy Reading , Infonetics

LightSquared now has a deal with CENX, but despite compelling economics, others aren't rushing in that direction. The economics of using Ethernet exchanges to enable mobile backhaul are compelling, but there's been no major uptick of sales, says one Carrier Ethernet analyst, Infonetics Research Inc. 's Michael Howard. However, he still expects those sales to come at some point. (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   IEEE   Equinix Inc.   CENX Inc.

CENX Dives Deeper Into Wireless Backhaul, Signs LightSquared

Explore Telecom Ramblings (Aug 9 2011) Mobile Backhaul , National

The evolution of the Ethernet Exchange business continues, as we are seeing each of the early participants taking the idea in their own unique directions.  Today it was CENX’s turn, as they unveiled the expansion of their wireless backhaul offering, as well as a major customer in LightSquared for whom they will be helping the [...] (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   CENX Inc.   tw telecom   Level (3)

Charter Gets Into Carrier Ethernet Business for the Long Haul

Explore Light Reading (Jun 23 2011) Business Ethernet , Metro Ethernet , Mobile Backhaul , Cable / MSO , Heavy Reading

Charter Communications Inc. is launching a long-haul Ethernet service on Thursday, knitting together its individual markets in an attempt to cut deeper into Level 3 Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: LVLT)'s and AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T)'s hides. Charter got into the metro Ethernet market about ten years ago. The difference now is that it's going to exploit its national fiber backbone (based primarily on Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   AT&T Inc.   IBM   Equinix Inc.

Tinet Rolls Out EtherCloud Coverage

Explore Light Reading (Apr 4 2011) Wholesale / Exchange

Neutral Tandem Inc.'s international network subsidiary Tinet today announced a global wholesale Layer 2 Ethernet offering called EtherCloud that should spark a new round of marketing efforts from the small but increasingly high-profile group of Carrier Ethernet exchange service providers. (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   IBM   Motorola , Inc.   Cablevision

Charter Cranks Carrier Wholesale Carrier Ethernet

Explore Light Reading (Mar 23 2011) Access , Business Ethernet , Managed Data Services , Cable / MSO , Heavy Reading

MSO charts course for more wholesale Ethernet deals with Tier 1 carriers after unleashing five interconnects, with more in the works (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Cablevision   Time Warner Cable   CableLabs

Carrier Ethernet Gets Off the Island

Explore Light Reading (Feb 15 2011) Wholesale / Exchange , Heavy Reading

There is no denying that Carrier Ethernet has a strong value proposition for users and network operators alike, but one factor has limited that potential value for many service deployments: Service connectivity between different operators and services is not easy. Until recently, interconnection agreements between Carrier Ethernet service providers that often used different service variants and class-of-service (CoS) structures have typically been complex, costly and time-consuming, taking at best several ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   IBM   Motorola , Inc.   Cablevision

COLT Hooks Up to CENX

Explore Light Reading (Nov 2 2010) Business Ethernet , Wholesale , Global , Wholesale / Exchange

NEW YORK -- Ethernet Expo Americas 2010 -- Pan-European service provider COLT Group SA (London: COLT ) has hooked up to CENX Inc. (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   CENX Inc.

Telx Early to Ethernet Exchange Expansion

Explore Light Reading (Oct 26 2010) Wholesale / Exchange

Collocation and interconnection provider Telx Group Inc. is growing its new Ethernet Exchange business faster than expected, turning up five locations this year, one more than planned, and looking to add two more in early 2011, if not sooner. The company is moving more quickly because of customer demand, says Glenn Calafati, a former Optimum Lightpath exec who joined Telx as VP and general manager of the Telx Ethernet Exchange ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   CENX Inc.   Optimum Lightpath   KDDI Corp.

CENX Extends Ethernet Exchange Reach

Explore Light Reading (Oct 11 2010) Business Ethernet , Wholesale , Wholesale / Exchange

Ethernet exchange company opens for business in five new locations around the world, and says it welcomes the heat of competition (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   CENX Inc.   Level (3)

CENX, EXFO Team on Off-Net Carrier Ethernet Monitoring

Explore Light Reading (Jul 27 2010) Access

Collaboration enables CENX to offer its carrier customers the ability to monitor Carrier Ethernet SLAs when traffic goes off-net (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   SLA   CENX Inc.

CENX Connects With Cable Player

Explore Light Reading (Jul 20 2010) Business Ethernet , Cable / MSO , National

Optimum Lightpath , the enterprise services arm of Cablevision Systems Corp., has become the first firm with cable ties to sign up with CENX Inc., the Carrier Ethernet peering firm exchange that opened for business late last year. (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   AT&T Inc.   Cablevision   Equinix Inc.

Larger SPs Still Browsing Ethernet Exchanges

Explore Light Reading (Jun 29 2010) MEF , Business Ethernet , Metro Ethernet , National , Heavy Reading

AT&T and NTT are among those not yet committing to using an Ethernet exchange to extend the reach of their services. Even Verizon Business , an announced user of the CENX Inc. exchange, says its exchange involvement is still in pilot mode. (See Verizon Boosts Biz With CENX Connection). "Exchanges are another arrangement we are looking at as part of [a broader] interconnection strategy," says Mike Volgende, director of Ethernet ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   AT&T Inc.   Heavy Reading   Covad

Covad Counting on Ethernet Growth

Explore Light Reading (May 27 2010) Middle Mile , Business Ethernet , Managed Data Services , Other analysts

Competitive carrier's latest transformation built on providing last-mile Ethernet to a wide range of new customers. Covad Communications Inc. is a classic example of a service provider that has been willing to change -- sometimes dramatically -- in order to survive. The success (or not) of its latest transformation should be evident within the next year, as Covad moves into Carrier Ethernet and more advanced services. (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Covad   CENX Inc.