The deal will give Cisco access to PipeLinks' Sonet/SDH router technology, which handles circuit traffic and IP traffic at the same time, enabling service providers to offer integrated voice and data services to the edge of a network.
Storm Telecommunications has launched an on-demand international Ethernet service. Meanwhile, network integrator Scalable has announced it will set up a Gigabit Ethernet-based metropolitan area network (MAN) and local area networks (LANs) for the...
However, as yet Gigabit Ethernet and its even fatter younger sibling 10 Gigabit Ethernet look weak and unproven when compared to the solid examples set by ATM, SONET/SDH and Frame Relay. The advent of its fatter version is opening up the transfer...
And while over half of all carrier equipment will remain Sonet/SDH based by that stage, it still leaves plenty of room - and hope - for Gigabit Ethernet suppliers. The cost to the carrier of installing a Gigabit Ethernet network is 20 per cent of a...
An MPLS network will run over whichever mix of networking technologies it faces, including Ethernet, ATM and Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH). If I were a carrier I'd want to go over the claims of interoperability these vendors are making with a...
Until now, metro networking has come at the cost of of a major step change from Ethernet to more expensive, less familiar and less flexible technologies like ATM or Sonet/SDH," said Chen. Of course, there will never be a wholesale change because of...
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