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 ...

System vendors are welcoming new technologies for carrying Ethernet over synchronous optical networks (SONET), a development that will enable additional services on their previously SONET-only ...

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

Once optical networks meant SONET, but now SONET is getting pushed into the background, especially in access networks, by other technologies such as Gigabit and eventually 10-Gigabit Ethernet. While ...

Two new groups are trying to adapt local fiber rings to handle data more efficiently than tried-and-true SONET, and bring down their cost for service providers and companies. If successful, the groups ...

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 ...

The start-up now offers two versions of its product that service providers can use to upgrade their metropolitan networks to Ethernet. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, ...