However, Bobby Johnson, president and CEO at network company Foundry Networks, claims ATM's future is bleak because Gigabit Ethernet offers the same functionality while being a simpler technology. Use of Gigabit Ethernet is currently outstripping...
Surprisingly, for a panel session at the Broadband DSL Forum on the future of broadband, there was no DSL spokesman, just Cooper and Michael Bayer, director of service provider marketing at Cisco, promoting (once more) metro Ethernet.
Service providers can do it now," said Nan Chen, president of the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF). The next area to adopt Ethernet will be metropolitan area (or "metro") networks, which span anywhere from a city to a region as big as some European...
This past summer, it announced it had discovered a bug in IOS running on its carrier class routers that exposed them to denial-of-service attacks. This software runs on most of Cisco's products, including its Catalyst Ethernet switches and Internet...
One of our concerns over interoperability between IM clients has to do with the security and privacy issues that arise," said Nicholas Graham, an AOL spokesman. While other experts agree that spim is on the rise, they believe that predictions of a...
On private networks - LAN, WAN or in the carrier's core - application performance can be assured using two distinct quality of service parameters: DiffServ and MPLS. The former is a way of ensuring application performance in Ethernet networks, the...