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MANs have seen Ethernet switching and transport services expand to support E-Line (Ethernet private-line) and E-LAN (Ethernet local-area-network) services. Ethernet also has begun to supplant ATM as the backhaul technology [...]

Users of LAN data services have come to expect continual advancements in network speeds. IT professionals also know to expect the price of a given generation of networking equipment to [...]

Out with the old and in with the new'--a familiar saying to anyone in business or technology. From the earliest days of the Industrial Revolution, the rush to embrace the [...]

Thanks to the development of maximum likelihood sequence estimation (MLSE)-based advanced signal processing engines, digital electronic distortion equalization (EDE) is now practical and economical, delivering significant capital- and operational-expenditure benefits [...]

During the optical heyday of 1998-2000, the folks at EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering (Quebec City) polled their customers about whether cost or functionality was more important when choosing an optical time-domain [...]

With an unprecedented downturn in the industry, service providers are dealing with the pain of having to do more with much less. The issue is massive cuts to capital expenditures [...]

Profitability will require development of a fully integrated optical network to deliver wavelength transport; distributed crossconnect; and routing from a single architecture. Given the new Wall Street economic factors, the [...]

Emerging IP network-management systems can help service providers harness the network in today's increasingly complex IP environment. To generate revenues from their vast capital investments, service providers face an immediate [...]

The Schott Group (Mainz, Germany) is expanding its business activities in the data/telecommunications sector with a new startup company in the United States, Schott Communications Technologies Inc. (Southbridge, MA). In [...]

Telstra Corp. Ltd. (Melbourne, Australia) and its fellow investors in the Australia-Japan submarine cable announced several major milestones for the project. With the signing of a shareholders agreement, Australia Japan [...]

The introduction and proliferation of fiber-optic technology has been one of the significant developments in telecommunications in recent years. A quick review of those telecom companies that have received large [...]

I have to admit to raising an eyebrow when I first heard about the new Carrier Ethernet initiative launched by the MEF. (MEF, of course, stands for Metro Ethernet Forum--but [...]

Caught between tight capital budgets and shrinking revenues, today's service providers face a seemingly impossible conundrum: They must figure out how to capitalize on demand for new data services in [...]