Force10 Networks this week is expected to launch its first packet-over-SONET blade, aimed at large companies that need to connect to legacy WAN infrastructures but want to avoid deploying stand-alone ...

Carrier Ethernet unlocks many potential revenue- generating services that telecommunications service providers, otherwise known as carriers, must deploy to be competitive. However, most carriers ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Makers of network equipment are putting new emphasis on tuning products for traditional, old-world architectures, as radical ideas fall out of style in step with the recession.

Ethernet is storming the metropolitan-area network (MAN), promising to save users money while improving reliability and provisioning. But a decade of legacy Synchronous Optical Network (Sonet) bars ...

Wayne, N.J. – Quake Technologies Inc. will introduce a 10-Gbit transceiver this week that is equipped with Sonet framing capabilities, giving designers an ability to deliver Sonet transport ...

The Multiprotocol Label Switching standard is coming into vogue as a way to provide SONET-like resiliency in packet networks. Created five years ago to provide more deterministic behavior in IP ...