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	Metro Ethernet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Metro Ethernet is a computer network based on the Ethernet standard covering a metropolitan area.
		An Ethernet interface is much cheaper than a SDH or PDH interface of the same bandwidth.
		Ethernet on the MAN can be used as pure Ethernet, Ethernet over SDH, Ethernet over MPLS or Ethernet over DWDM.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Metro_Ethernet (456 words)

	Optical Keyhole: Metro Ethernet Forum Q&A
		The MEF markets metro Ethernet technology via several means: a highly comprehensive web site, publication of educational white papers, organising workshops at major industry events, conducting interoperability demonstrations, regular media and analyst briefings, and commissioning studies focusing on the reduced operational costs associated with metro Ethernet versus competing legacy technologies.
		This change in carrier attitude regarding metro Ethernet is largely in response to demand from enterprise customers, although hastened by the threat from cable operators that will gladly deliver metro Ethernet services to enterprise customers who request them as a way to take business away from their carrier competitors.
		Metro Ethernet technology clearly provides the highest bandwidth at the lowest cost so once the infrastructure is in place, many revenue generating services can be added through simple service provisioning.
	www.opticalkeyhole.com /obspost/mef.asp?bhcd2=1116096864 (4856 words)

	News @ Cisco: Metro Ethernet Means Business with New Cisco Switch Technology
		Metro Ethernet service providers are gearing up for business with the launch of a new platform aimed at delivering scalable corporate-level services to the network edge.
		Metro Ethernet networks are used across the globe but have become particularly popular in Asia and Europe, where the compact, densely-populated nature of many cities makes them the ideal means for providing large numbers of high-speed broadband and VPN connections at low cost.
		Such is the appeal of metro Ethernet in Europe, that it is increasingly seen by governments and companies as the way forward for delivering private and public sector services and boosting regional competitiveness.
	newsroom.cisco.com /dlls/2004/hd_012004.html (1004 words)

	Metro Ethernet - Peak 10
		Metro Ethernet is a reliable and fast connection that enhances your business continuity plan.
		Metro Ethernet, formerly called Native Mode LAN Interconnect (NMLI), is a general term describing a Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) topology.
		Metro Ethernet is a reliable method for interconnecting a company’s offices, applications and users and enables companies to quickly retrieve lost data from back-up sources.
	www.peak10.com /solutions/metroethernet.htm (322 words)

	LUMISON - Small business and home office
		Throughout the UK, Metro Ethernet is becoming increasingly popular as the ultimate high bandwidth solution for larger organisations in and around Metro regions.
		With the usual business-class Service Level Agreements Lumison offer, Metro Ethernet provides you with all the benefits of a leased line, but with more bandwidth, so if you’re maxing out your 2mb leased line, Metro Ethernet is for you.
		Unlike many Internet providers, Lumison offers Burstable Bandwidth on all leased line and Metro Ethernet services.This means that you can get a 10mb or 100mb Metro Ethernet connection and only pay for the average bandwidth you use on that line every month offering quality, flexibility and better value.
	www.lumison.net /services/metro_ethernet (139 words)

	Amazon.com: Metro Ethernet: Books: Sam Halabi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Metro networks have emerged as an area of growth for the networking industry and represent a major shift in how data services are offered to businesses and residential customers.
		Ethernet has been the technology of choice for the enterprise and is now emerging as the access interface of choice for delivering data services in the metro.
		It gives a description of the current metro, which is based on TDM technology, and discusses the drivers and the challenges to be faced in transforming the metro to address data services.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/158705096X?v=glance (2889 words)

	Metro Ethernet & Gigabit Ethernet Technology
		Metro Ethernet is a general term used to describe an Ethernet technology network in a metropolitan area.
		Metro Ethernet is also a proven Ethernet technology for avoiding the bandwidth bottleneck that occurs when too many corporate networks are connected to one metropolitan area network.
		Metro Ethernet eliminates a layer of complexity from WAN access, thus reducing configuration requirements.
	www.metrobility.com /metro-ethernet.htm (255 words)

	ElectricNews.net:News:Eircom lights up metro ethernet
		The firm's new metro ethernet service will provide large businesses in the greater Dublin area with an ethernet connection capable of data transfer speeds of up to one gigabit per second (Gbps) -- this is 100 times faster than the original ethernet.
		Ethernet is common in Local Area Networks (LAN), and it is the standard for connecting computers to an office network.
		Metro Ethernet is gaining in popularity in Western Europe as demand for broadband and transparent LAN services increases according to a survey by research group IDC last year.
	www.enn.ie /frontpage/news-9560262.html (434 words)

	Metro Ethernet Redux
		And, IT was told, services based on metro Ethernet would be half the cost, provision faster and allow bandwidth to be "dialed up" virtually instantaneously and in more granular increments than Sonet-based services could offer.
		The idea of metro Ethernet resonated with corporate IT but struck fear into the hearts of the incumbent local exchange carriers (ILEC), who preferred to squeeze every last dollar out of their multibillion-dollar ATM/Sonet infrastructure investment.
		And the Metro Ethernet Forum is still working out a common set of carrier-grade service classes, management specifications and service interoperability standards.
	www.computerworld.com /printthis/2002/0,4814,76247,00.html (751 words)

	Billing World and OSS Today Magazine - Metro Ethernet Finally Delivers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Indeed, metro Ethernet for layer 2 transport is finally delivering on its promise of efficient and tailored bandwidth allocation, as well as the flexibility to grow out a network at a substantially lower cost than was possible with legacy technologies.
		Although the marriage of optical and Ethernet technologies has long been anticipated as a solution, carriers are just now embracing Ethernet as a transport layer for more than just LANs, such as connecting enterprises in metro and even long-haul networks.
		Because using Ethernet in the metro involves fewer elements to manage, some say QoS is easier to control when the problems with routers are removed.
	www.billingworld.com /archive-detail.cfm?archiveId=7729 (2350 words)

	Metro Ethernet Services > L2 Switching Basics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		As discussed in Chapter 1, "Introduction to Data in the Metro," Ethernet services can take either of two forms: a retail service that competes with traditional T1/E1 private-line services, or a wholesale service where a carrier sells a big Ethernet transport pipe to another, smaller service provider.
		MAC learning allows the Ethernet switch to learn the MAC addresses of the stations in the network to identify on which port to send the traffic.
		Metro Ethernet applications require extensions to L2 switching that are not defined in the standards.
	www.ciscopress.com /articles/article.asp?p=101367&seqNum=1&rl=1 (1885 words)

	Metro Ethernet - $28.00 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Metro networks will emerge as the next area of growth for the networking industry and will represent a major shift in how data services are offered to businesses and residential customers.
		The metro has always been a challenging environment for delivering data services because it has been built to handle the stringent reliability and availability needs for voice.
		It describes the current metro, which is based on TDM technology, and discusses the drivers and challenges carriers will face in transforming the metro to address data services.
	www.ciscopress.com /title/158705096X (974 words)

	Metro Ethernet Forum - Home Page
		A group of 80+ carriers, equipment vendors and end-users who are driving the definition of and applications for a truly carrier-class Ethernet.
		These are the reasons that Service providers worldwide are rapidly migrating their existing networks to deliver Carrier Ethernet services to residential and enterprise end-users.
		To facilitate implementation of existing and new standards, Ethernet service definition, test procedures and technical specifications of the MEF to allow delivery of Ethernet services and make Ethernet-based metro networks carrier class.
	www.metroethernetforum.org (328 words)

	MRV Communications, Inc. - Metro Ethernet
		The primary reason for this is that the vast majority of their customers’ data begins and ends its life as Ethernet packets.
		To provide solutions for these varied customer needs, the Metro Ethernet network must be flexible and granular, and must scale well in performance and cost.
		OptiSwitch™ product line includes a fully flexible and granular Ethernet switching and routing solution from a few ports of 10Mbps Ethernet all the way to hundreds of Gigabits of wire-speed IP routing.
	www.mrv.com /solutions/carrier/metro_ethernet.php (639 words)

	Buying Metro Ethernet Services
		What Metro Ethernet does is gets you a connection, generally within a metropolitan area (hence "Metro"), generally running over optical links and hardware.
		Ethernet over MPLS (EoMPLS) is the portion of AToM most likely to be used for various Metro Ethernet services.
		I think one rule of thumb may be that having a router on at least one end of each P2P Metro Ethernet link is a good thing, for containing any L2 and STP problems (are they called STPP?).
	www.netcraftsmen.net /welcher/papers/metroeth01.html (4809 words)

	GEF Ethernet News Research Consulting GbE Gigabit Switch Test Photonics Chip EoS SDH SONET EPON FTTP DSL Cable MSO ...
		Ethernet services are one of the fastest growing sectors in the telecommunications services industry.
		Ethernet is already beginning to be deployed everywhere within homes and business and even within the carrier's own infrastructure, but has not been made widely available as an access solution.
		The carrier-class Metro Ethernet Switch is designed to provision triple-play-services and enterprise VLANs at the edge of carrier networks where classification, QoS enforcement and individual service bandwidth management are required.
	www.globalexecutiveforum.net /Ethernet.htm (13709 words)

	Blueprint: Metro Ethernet
		Ethernet, the most successful networking technology ever developed, has won in the enterprise environment and is being extended to the metro.
		Ethernet's ubiquity and this inexorable demand for bandwidth are pushing the industry towards the next generation of Ethernet technology -- 100 Gigabit Ethernet.
		The complexities of delivering WAN-based Ethernet services have traditionally been concentrated in the access network, typically accounting for 80 percent of a carrier’s capital and operational costs.
	www.convergedigest.com /bp-me/index.asp (587 words)

	Light Reading - Ethernet - Metro Optical Ethernet - Telecom Report
		The metro area is currently the focus of intense network development and competition, with new service providers appearing on a monthly basis.
		Metro networks employing this equipment will be able to create and offer Gigabit-level connections between customer access gear and service provider POPs (points of presence) in their “native” mode, from one gigabit Ethernet switch or router to another.
		In this report we’ll examine metro optical Ethernet from all the angles: the technology, applications, economics, and service providers, as well as their vendors.
	www.lightreading.com /document.asp?doc_id=2472 (746 words)

	Light Reading - Security - Metro Ethernet - Telecom Report
		Ethernet has had an incredible run since the technology was invented in 1973 by Bob Metcalfe, working at Xerox Corp. 's (NYSE: XRX - message board) famous Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in California.
		Now, of course, Ethernet is everywhere inside buildings and is finding its way into telecom networks, either as a technology supporting services such as virtual private networks (VPNs) or as a service in itself, enabling businesses to link together Ethernet LANs in different locations.
		The first metro report — Metro Multiservices Evolution — gave a general overview and explained how different technologies are likely to be combined in metro networks.
	www.lightreading.com /document.asp?doc_id=18160 (907 words)

	Metro Ethernet for Wireline Carriers - Cisco Systems
		Intelligent Ethernet technologies deliver advanced network security and rich quality-of-service (QoS) capabilities, allowing you to offer a customized mix of services and data rates, both for point-to-point and multipoint connections.
		This paper describes the architectures and Metro Ethernet Forum-certified Cisco products used to deploy a Carrier Ethernet/MPLS network on a national or international scale, and presents a business case that demonstrates the attractive cash flow that can be generated by such a project.
		NTELOS is improving revenue and building customer loyalty by upgrading its network infrastructure to support Metro Ethernet services based on a robust and scalable MPLS network built end-to-end with Cisco equipment.
	www.cisco.com /en/US/netsol/ns577/networking_solutions_solution.html (879 words)

	Alcatel Technologies
		The overwhelming popularity of Ethernet, originally developed for LANs, has positioned it as a major driver of metro area network buildouts.
		By providing service providers with a wide array of metro Ethernet networking choices, Alcatel is well positioned to seize the new business opportunities in this emerging space.
		From Ethernet private line services to VPN internetworking, metro Ethernet presents an array of new opportunities for equipment vendors and service providers alike.
	www.alcatel.com /inc/lang/en/technology/overview/metro.htm (445 words)

	Who Wants Metro Ethernet?
		Ethernet for metro networks is seen as a way to build out more bandwidth with the growth of digital media assets.
		SONET technology is considered the leader in the metro private line networking space, according to a recent report from research firm Frost and Sullivan.
		Bringing determinism to Ethernet is seen by Nortel and others as a key to helping carriers to further adopt Ethernet.
	www.internetnews.com /ent-news/article.php/3612191 (1211 words)

	Qwest Metro Optical Ethernet - QC : Large Business : Data
		Qwest Metro Optical Ethernet - QC Qwest Metro Optical Ethernet (MOE) - QC service combines the power of Ethernet and optical technologies across metropolitan area networks (MANs) to provide scalable and secure bandwidth at a low relative cost.
		You may reduce your total cost of ownership by eliminating the need for specialized wide area network (WAN) support expertise, reducing the cost of WAN equipment with lower cost Ethernet switches and routers, and consolidating server/facilities.
		Qwest Metro Optical Ethernet is available to business customers in AZ, CO, IA, ID, MN, MT, ND, NE, NM, OR, SD, UT, WA and WY. Minimum 1-year commitment required.
	www.qwest.com /pcat/large_business/product/1,1016,2104_4_2,00.html (337 words)

	Rad-Info, Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The program, which focuses on how service providers deliver Ethernet services to create critical income growth, will be presented by Zhone Technologies on June 20 at 2:00 p.m.
		A new approach to Ethernet -- called multidimensional Ethernet -- enables service providers to offer both consumer and business services over a single, collapsed network infrastructure.
		This event will discuss: How multidimensional Ethernet works How it can be used to allow carriers to customize services by implementing QoS on a per-subscriber basis And how it can be leveraged to easily connect..
	www.rad-info.net /metroe.htm (282 words)

	Metro Ethernet means business
		Though service providers long struggled with the decision to offer metro Ethernet services for fear that it would cannibalize their profitable existing frame relay and ATM services, that fear has clearly given way to a deeper fear of competitors that will offer the typically less expensive service.
		As evidenced by other recent Infonetics data, carriers are pursuing an increasingly diverse variety of media and technologies to offer metro Ethernet and plan to use it for a wide range of applications, including even packetized voice.
		“Ethernet is on pace toward metro service dominance over the next five to 10 years,” said Michael Howard, principal Infonetics analyst.
	telephonyonline.com /mag/telecom_intelligence_broadband_economy_74 (288 words)

	Ethernet Services, OSM207, Metro Ethernet Demarcation
		The OSM207 is part of MRV's Metro Ethernet modular portfolio, offering a compact carrier-class powerful IP/MPLS/VPLS Metro Ethernet Demarcation platform, with a robust and intelligent traffic management suit.
		The OSM207's powerful network processor design offers carrier-class Ethernet services with sophisticated Quality of Service ("QoS") and congestion control which are critical at the customer demarcation point.
		OSM207 offers greater intelligence to the metro Ethernet Demarcation, defined as a user provider edge, enabling the delivery of more differentiated metro Ethernet services, featuring advanced hierarchical Quality of Service (QoS), intelligent CoS marking profiles, traffic shaping, intelligent VLAN Swapping, Multi-protocol Label Switching (MPLS) and Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS), and multi-point services.
	www.mrv.com /product/MRV-OS-OSM207/1 (314 words)

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