JUNE 23, 2005 - Ethernet is finally looking to break out of the corporate LAN and home network to be provisioned as an end-to-end broadband service capable of spanning local communities or linking across the globe. More...
CHICAGO, June 13, 2005 - The lack of a standard Ethernet interface between different carrier networks is impeding carrier plans to extend virtual private LAN services on a national and global scale. More...
 Supercomm Chicago, June 8th, 2005 - The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) is proud to announce the winners for their inaugural "US Carrier Ethernet Service Provider of the Year" awards. AT&T received the "Service Provider of the Year - Best in Business" award and Yipes received the "Service Provider of the Year - Outstanding Innovation" award at a champagne reception held at Supercomm 2005, Chicago on Wednesday 8th June. More...
June 2005 - After years of anticipation, Ethernet is making its move into the wide area market. More...
June 2005 - Ethernet has been such a success inside the enterprise that most network planners want at least to consider adding it to their metro and WAN toolbox. The appeal is the simplicity and the potential cost savings relative to private line, frame relay and ATM. Having Ethernet in the LAN and the WAN can simplify network management and reduce the number of network elements. More...
June 2005 - Members of the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) have until the 9th of this month to submit their MEF1-compliant products for the organization’s new Carrier Ethernet certification program. More...
By Nan Chen, President, Metro Ethernet Forum
May 26th 2005 - Just as there’s a strong woman behind every successful man, there’s a hard-driving, future-focused industry forum behind every emerging carrier service. Such is the case with the Metro Ethernet Forum, which continues to gain ground on its lofty goal of defining, cementing and certifying “Carrier” Ethernet service standards. MORE…
Irvine, CA, USA, May 17th, 2005 - The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) today announced that it will be conducting the world’s first demonstration of Carrier Ethernet at SuperComm from June 6-9, 2005, McCormick Place, Chicago, USA. This will also be the world’s largest ever interoperability demo of its kind with 30 members of the MEF participating in the SuperDemo (booth # 48085). More...
9 May 2005 - 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. In a survey conducted by Infonetics Research of Tier 1 carriers in North America, Europe and Asia/Pacific, less than a third rated cannibalization as a primary pressure point, whereas about half described competition that way. More...
1 May 2005 - Convergence will be the focus of SUPERCOMM 2005. Related to that, hot topics at this granddaddy of telecom shows — which this June marks its final year — are expected to be Ethernet, FTTx, IMS, IPTV and pseudo wire. More...
May, 2005 - 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 now that the organization has decreed that Ethernet isn’t just for the metro anymore as far as carriers are concerned, it has a problem with its name. The current solution appears to be to just use the acronym.) More...
If necessity is the mother of invention, who are its children? More...
April 28, 2005 - For years, service providers offered "Ethernet speed" and "Ethernet-like" WAN services, but most fell short of full Ethernet functionality. Now, finally, there is real reason for optimism. More...
April 12, 2005 Irvine, CA -- The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), a global industry alliance of approximately 70 organizations including telecommunications service providers, network equipment and software manufacturers, semiconductors vendors, and testing organizations, today announced the launch of its certification program to support what it calls the explosive demand for incipient "Carrier Ethernet" services. More...
IRVINE, Calif., April 12, 2005 -- The next generation Internet will deliver business connectivity at tens of Gbps as well as broadcast-quality video on demand - just some of the benefits we can expect from 'Carrier Ethernet', the next major step in global communications announced today by the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF). Carrier Ethernet, defining native Ethernet packet access to the Internet as well as increasing penetration of wireless networks, presents a direct challenge to the traditional SONET telephony infrastructure and promises Wide Area networking scalable beyond 10Gbps using ubiquitous Ethernet technology. The MEF's commitment to the new standard is underlined with their simultaneous launch of a Carrier Ethernet Certification Program to accelerate the delivery of industry standard products and services to the end user. More...
MEF has just completed a very successful Supercomm 2005 in Chicago. The booth was once again the center of attention for carriers, service providers, suppliers and end-users interested in Ethernet services. With the theme of "Catch the Carrier Ethernet Wave" permeating the booth, demonstrations of 8 key applications being provided the proof points that Ethernet infrastructure is taking off in real-world applications. A whitepaper detailing the applications and the implementation of the demos is located here. This was the first and largest public demonstration of Carrier Ethernet in the industry. Twenty-nine member companies participated with the live demonstrations as well as with theatre presentations on the booth. In addition, the winners of the Service Provider of the Year for North America were announced on Wednesday with a gala champagne reception. More...
Throughout the booth, discussions and presentations about the MEF Certification Program were evident as the next major activity being promoted by the Forum. The first group of certified vendors will be announced at the upcoming Carrier Ethernet World Congress in Berlin in September. Interested parties should contact the MEF at manager@metroethernetforum.net for more information.
April 12, 2005 - With practically every equipment vendor claiming to deliver "carrier-class" Ethernet , the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) is laying down some rules about what counts and what doesn't. More...
Irvine, California, April 12th, 2005 - The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) today announced the launch of its Certification Program to support the explosive demand for Carrier Ethernet services. More...
Irvine, California, USA, April 12th, 2005 - The next generation Internet will deliver business connectivity at tens of Gbps as well as broadcast-quality video on demand - just some of the benefits we can expect from 'Carrier Ethernet', the next major step in global communications announced today by the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF). More...
April 11, 2005 - The Metro Ethernet Forum this week is launching a program to fully define carrier-class Ethernet technology and implement a certification process to officially christen qualifying equipment with the group's new preferred term, “carrier Ethernet.” More...
March 29 , 2005 - ...high-speed Ethernet technologies quickly took over internetworking and have spread to metro-area networking as well — all in under a decade... More...
OFC/NFOEC, Anaheim, CA, USA, March 8th, 2005: The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) today announced it will expand its scope to promote standards-based Ethernet in the First Mile technologies and encouraged the utilization and implementation of Ethernet in the First Mile based upon the IEEE standard. More...
Irvine, CA, USA, February 17th , 2005. The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) and IIR Conferences today announced a new event to be called the "Carrier Ethernet World Congress," which is positioned to be the premier annual gathering for the rapidly expanding Metro Ethernet community. More...
January 26, 2005 - Optical Keyhole Q&A with Ralph Santitoro, Director of Network Architecture, Nortel, and co-chair, MEF Technical Marketing Committee. More...
Irvine, CA, USA, January 11, 2005. The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) announced a new, industry-specific web portal to help service providers wanting clear, definitive facts and updates on carrier-class Ethernet equipment, OpEx, case studies and service definitions. The new portal features an authoritative database of metro Ethernet networking equipment, test equipment and management tool suppliers... More...
Irvine, CA, USA, November 15, 2004. The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), today announced the ratification of three new MEF technical specifications for Carrier-class Ethernet - providing an interface model between element and network management systems, an implementation agreement for circuit emulation services and test procedures for point-to-point (E-Line) and any-to-any (E-LAN) services. More...
The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) is now accepting nominations for the MEF Innovation Award for Asia Pacific Metro Ethernet Service Provider of the Year. The winner of this prestigious award will be announced on June 30, 2005 at a VIP luncheon in Beijing, China. More...
by Craig Matsumoto, Senior Editor
October 11,2004 - Everybody knows Bob Metcalfe. The guy invented Ethernet in 1973 and wrote one of the most widely read technology columns ever for InfoWorld in the late '90s. More...
by Nan Chen, President of the Metro Ethernet Forum
Oct. 7,2004 - Now is a great time for metro Ethernet! For a variety of business and technical reasons, metro Ethernet is clearly gaining momentum on a global basis as an alternative infrastructure to SONET/SDH. More...
Sept. 1st , 2004. Hailed as the inventor of Ethernet, Bob Metcalfe reveals his vision of an Ethernet everywhere future....
by Ralph Santitoro
August 24, 2004 - Providers generate revenue based on services, not networks. The purpose of transport networks is to optimally deliver the services that generate the most revenue with the lowest operational costs. With over 95% of all applications beginning and ending on Ethernet, there is great motivation to keep the packets as Ethernet and transported over Ethernet... More...
April 12, 2005 Irvine, CA -- The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), a global industry alliance of approximately 70 organizations including telecommunications service providers, network equipment and software manufacturers, semiconductors vendors, and testing organizations, today announced the launch of its certification program to support what it calls the explosive demand for incipient "Carrier Ethernet" services. More...
April 12, 2005 San Jose, CA -- Worldwide metro Ethernet equipment revenue reached $3.8 billion in 2004, and is projected to double to $7.6 billion by 2008, according to a report from Infonetics Research, an international market research and consulting firm covering the data networking and telecommunications industries. The report finds metro Ethernet ports growing strongly as well, increasing 433% between 2004 and 2008. More...
The Metro Ethernet Forum this week is launching a program to fully define carrier-class Ethernet technology and implement a certification process to officially christen qualifying equipment with the group's new preferred term, "carrier Ethernet." More...
The Metro Ethernet Forum this week is launching a program to fully define carrier-class Ethernet technology and implement a certification process to officially christen qualifying equipment with the group's new preferred term, "carrier Ethernet." More...
SAN JOSE, Calif., April 12 -- Worldwide Metro Ethernet equipment revenue hit $3.8 billion in 2004, and is projected to double to $7.6 billion by 2008, according to Infonetics Research's latest report, Metro Ethernet Equipment market share and forecast service. Metro Ethernet ports are growing strongly as well, increasing 433% between 2004 and 2008. More...
The Metro Ethernet Forum has defined what it means to deliver carrier-class Ethernet by defining the five attributes required. The group also today announced plans for an independent lab to do certification based on that definition. More...
In a clear sign that fiber forays are back in focus, optical systems upstart Mintera Corp., today will tomorrow announce it has secured $18.5 million in financing from current and new venture investors - and that Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe and former Lucent CEO Rich McGinn have joined the firm’s board, Telecommunications magazine has learned. More...
- Metro Ethernet Forum aims at comprehensive definition of Carrier Ethernet
What does Carrier Ethernet actually mean? Operators (and enterprises) who are considering deploying Ethernet technology to transfer IP-based traffic across their wide area networks (WAN) may welcome a clear definition of what they can expect before proceeding. At least that’s what the MEF thinks. "We’re taking an industry lead on this and, for the first time, we are defining the characteristics of Carrier Ethernet," said Nan Chen, president of the MEF, speaking at a press briefing held in London today. "Basically, it comprises five elements: protection [including no more than 50ms restoration time]; hard SLAs; TDM support [including circuit emulation services]; service management; and scalability." More...
With Ethernet now becoming prevalent in metropolitan area networks, the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) is setting its sights on promoting Ethernet services across the WAN. As part of this effort, the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) is launching a Certification Program. The program will initially allow MEF member companies to certify that their products meet the international Carrier Ethernet service standards detailed in MEF specifications. Certification will later become available to non-MEF members from a growing number of laboratories worldwide and will embrace services as well as equipment. More...
The Metro Ethernet Forum this week is launching a program to fully define carrier-class Ethernet technology and implement a certification process to officially christen qualifying equipment with the group's new preferred term, "carrier Ethernet." More...
By Paul Travis
16 March 2005 - When Bob Metcalfe was working at Xerox Corp. in 1970, he was given the task of developing a way to network computers using a standard interface. He invented what's now known as Ethernet, the technology employed by just about every data network in use today. More...
Metro Ethernet Forum leader Nan Chen thinks so - unsurprisingly enough.
Organisations could soon be running seamless end to end Ethernet, even across the WAN, between offices in different countries, and into the homes of teleworking employees. So claims Nan Chen, president of the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) and marketing VP at equipment supplier Atrica. More...
Bob Metcalfe, who invented what's now known as Ethernet, the technology employed by just about every data network in use today, received the National Medal of Technology from President Bush at a White House ceremony last week. More...
SAN FRANCISCO--At a recent event celebrating its 30th birthday, the trailblazers of Ethernet marveled at its evolution, from a cable between copiers that ran a bit faster than today's home broadband services to the key technology in huge enterprise networks and even carrier data services. A recurring refrain was that Ethernet today is nothing like what they invented. More...
When Bob Metcalfe was working at Xerox Corp. in 1970, he was given the task of developing a way to network computers using a standard interface. He invented what's now known as Ethernet, the technology employed by just about every data network in use today. More...
Bob Metcalfe, the 'father' of Ethernet, and Nan Chen, president of the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), have announced the start of testing for next-generation network traffic protocols. More...
by Ed Gubbins
April 12, 2005 - The worldwide market for metro Ethernet equipment, which reached $3.8 billion in 2004, should double in the following four years, reaching $7.6 billion in 2008, according to data released today by Infonetics Research. More...
APRIL 12, 2005 - With practically every equipment vendor claiming to deliver "carrier-class" Ethernet , the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) is laying down some rules about what counts and what doesn't. More...
By Robert Jaques
March 9, 2005 - Fast growing demand for bandwidth between internal departments, and between external customers and suppliers, is driving demand for wide area network (Wan) bandwidth and, in particular, for metro Ethernet services in North America and western Europe, newly published research has claimed. More...
ANAHEIM, Calif. (Business Wire) March 8, 2005 - The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) today announced it will expand its scope to promote standards-based Ethernet in the First Mile technologies and encouraged the utilization and implementation of Ethernet in the First Mile based upon the IEEE standard. The MEF , with a mission to accelerate the adoption of Carrier Ethernet services and technologies, will assume these activities which, until recently, were the focus of the Ethernet in the First Mile Alliance (EFMA). More...
MEF Expands Its Scope to Include Development of the Market for Ethernet Access Network Technologies
ANAHEIM, Calif. (BUSINESS WIRE) March 8, 2005 - The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) today announced it will expand its scope to promote standards-based Ethernet in the First Mile technologies and encouraged the utilization and implementation of Ethernet in the First Mile based upon the IEEE standard. The MEF , with a mission to accelerate the adoption of Carrier Ethernet services and technologies, will assume these activities which, until recently, were the focus of the Ethernet in the First Mile Alliance (EFMA). More...
ANAHEIM, Calif. (BUSINESS WIRE) March 8, 2005 - The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) today announced it will expand its scope to promote standards-based Ethernet in the First Mile technologies and encouraged the utilization and implementation of Ethernet in the First Mile based upon the IEEE standard. The MEF , with a mission to accelerate the adoption of Carrier Ethernet services and technologies, will assume these activities which, until recently, were the focus of the Ethernet in the First Mile Alliance (EFMA). More...
ANAHEIM, Calif., Mar 08, 2005 (BUSINESS WIRE) - The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) today announced it will expand its scope to promote standards-based Ethernet in the First Mile technologies and encouraged the utilization and implementation of Ethernet in the First Mile based upon the IEEE standard. The MEF , with a mission to accelerate the adoption of Carrier Ethernet services and technologies, will assume these activities which, until recently, were the focus of the Ethernet in the First Mile Alliance (EFMA). More...
January 26, 2005: Optical Keyhole Q&A with Ralph Santitoro, Director of Network Architecture, Nortel, aMay 1, 2007ttp://www.opticalkeyhole.com/obspost/mef.asp?bhcd2=1106770799">More...
Sept. 1st , 2004. Hailed as the inventor of Ethernet, Bob Metcalfe reveals his vision of an Ethernet everywhere future....
by Ralph Santitoro
August 24, 2004 - Providers generate revenue based on services, not networks. The purpose of transport networks is to optimally deliver the services that generate the most revenue with the lowest operational costs. With over 95% of all applications beginning and ending on Ethernet, there is great motivation to keep the packets as Ethernet and transported over Ethernet... More...
by Sandra L. Borthick
June 2004 - Is there anything Ethernet can’t do? In just a decade, it has gone from being one among many LAN technologies to totally dominating, and then commoditizing onsite enterprise data networks. Now equipment vendors and service providers appear to be counting on Ethernet to work its cost-cutting and customer-attracting magic again, this time in carrier networks. More...
By Tom Moore
Last year at SUPERCOMM, the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) highlighted interoperability between 22 company-specific networks tied together over a 10-Gbps Ethernet core.
The big news this year is the MEF's announcement of the ratification of four new Metro Ethernet technical specifications. These, along with a fifth specification approved last September, are being demonstrated here at the Forum's SUPERDemo.
"The message is that Metro Ethernet is poised to be part of the reawakening of the telecommunications market," technology visionary Bob Metcalfe told the audience at a packed session on the future of Metro Ethernet. At the session, Metcalfe, widely known as the inventor of Ethernet in the early 1970s, also was named an advisory director of MEF. More...
June 23, 2004 -- Bob Metcalfe, the networking pioneer who invented Ethernet and launched 3Com,has taken a role as senior advisor to the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF).
Metro Ethernet appears to be on the cusp of widespread deployment, with Gartner projecting the market to be worth $14 billion next year. More...
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. -- (Business Wire)-- June 23, 2004 -- Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet, founder of 3Com and now venture capitalist with Polaris Venture Partners, has also decided to put his talent to support carrier-class Ethernet across the metropolitan area. Announced today at SUPERCOMM 2004, he is joining the Metro Ethernet Forum as Advisory Director and will be looking to the future in a Metro Ethernet services market estimated by Gartner to reach $14 billion by 2005. More...
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 23, 2004--Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet, founder of 3Com and now venture capitalist with Polaris Venture Partners, has also decided to put his talent to support carrier-class Ethernet across the metropolitan area. Announced today at SUPERCOMM 2004, he is joining the Metro Ethernet Forum as Advisory Director and will be looking to the future in a Metro Ethernet services market estimated by Gartner to reach $14 billion by 2005. More...
Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet, founder of 3Com and venture capitalist with Polaris Venture Partners, is joining the Metro Ethernet Forum as advisory director. “The Metro Ethernet Forum is the kind of place I like to be,” said Bob Metcalfe, “where standards, particularly Ethernet standards, gain momentum with organized efforts to knock down obstacles to market adoption. MEF’s efforts have huge leverage in America’s innovation machine.
Newport Beach, CA - June 24th, 2004 -- Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet, founder of 3Com and now venture capitalist with Polaris Venture Partners, has also decided to put his talent to support carrier-class Ethernet across the metropolitan area. Announced today at SUPERCOMM 2004, he is joining the Metro Ethernet Forum as Advisory Director and will be looking to the future in a Metro Ethernet services market estimated by Gartner to reach $14 billion by 2005. More...
Newport Beach, CA – June 24th , 2004 – Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet , founder of 3Com and now venture capitalist with Polaris Venture Partners, has also decided to put his talent to support carrier-class Ethernet across the metropolitan area. Announced today at SuperComm 2004, he is joining the Metro Ethernet Forum as Advisory Director and will be looking to the future in a Metro Ethernet services market estimated by Gartner to reach $14 billion by 2005. More...
Five new Metro Ethernet technical specifications put through their paces at the MEF’s SUPERDemo 2004 Booth # 20736
Newport Beach, CA – June 22nd , 2004 - Service providers wondering just how far Ethernet technology has advanced in the highly lucrative metropolitan area marketplace are in for an unrivalled technical demonstration at SUPERDemo 2004 – the Metro Ethernet Forum’s (MEF) SUPERCOMM 2004 showcase June 22-24th. More...
Newport Beach, CA – June 22 nd , 2004 - Extensive research across North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific has consistently predicted operational savings over 20% within three years of replacing legacy private line, frame relay and ATM services with Ethernet across the metropolitan area - and now the modeling tool used in this research has been released to all members of the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF). More...
Newport Beach, CA - June 1, 2004 - The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), today announced that it will participate in SUPERCOMM's SUPERDemo (booth 20736) with a technical interoperability demonstration of key building blocks which carriers will use to deploy metro Ethernet services - including Metro Ethernet Network Protection, Ethernet UNI (User Network Interface), Ethernet Services , Circuit Emulation over Ethernet, Ethernet Traffic Management, and Test and Service Assurance. More... (MS Word Document 75Kb)
ONE OF THE HOTTEST CONFERENCE TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION AT N+I THIS YEAR
FREE to attendees on Tuesday May 11th, room N110 Las Vegas Convention Center
Newport Beach, CA - April 28th, 2004 - Visitors to Networld+Interop this year have the opportunity to attend a free half-day intensive update on one of the most dynamic topics in networking today - the availability of business-grade Ethernet services for enterprise customers. Sponsored by the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) as part of the Metro Ethernet Summit, enterprise CIOs and IT Directors/Managers will learn about how carriers are introducing Metro Ethernet E-Line and E-LAN services and more importantly, how it will impact their service options. More..
Publication: CeBit News
Title:
By Gerhard Kafka
Posted: 18-24 March 2004
The past two years have seen several significant advances in Ethernet's development. Launched 30 years ago as a LAN transport technology, it is now being deployed outside the enterprise to offer access and services overpublic networks. Over the next few years
the Metro Ethernet market is expected to boom. Full Story (PDF)
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By Dan Sweeney
Posted: March 1, 2004
The full range of major carriers and service providers are now embracing intercity Ethernet services, including RBOCs, long distance carriers, cablecos, surviving independent CLECs, and even a few electrical utilities. Backbone traffic management for the services generally involves something more than layer 2 Ethernet switching but the customer interface is an Ethernet port. Full Story
Publication: XCHANGE Magazine
Title:
By Paula Bernier
Posted: 02/01/2004
Carriers, equipment vendors and businesses shopping for connectivity can now speak the same language when it comes to discussing Ethernet services thanks to a new document from the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF). MEF 1.0, which the forum says is the industry's first Ethernet service standard, defines the building blocks used to create Ethernet services. Full Story
By Martyn Warwick
27/01/04
The value of metro Ethernet equipment revenues worldwide reached US$2.9 billion in 2003, and are projected to grow, at a rate of over 150%, to $7.5 billion by 2007, according to new postings from Infonetics Research. Full Story
Study Quantifies Ethernet Opex Savings
By Peter Heywood
Posted: January 26, 2004
MEF Releases Ethernet Opex Study
Posted: January 26, 2004
Leased lines will get cheaper
By Peter Judge
Posted: January 22,2004
By Sean Buckley
January 2004
No matter how you slice it, Ethernet has certainly come a long way, baby! Initially devised by Robert Metcalfe in his Harvard doctoral thesis, the technology has grown from performing what would be seen now as simple tasks of interconnecting printers to scale as an emerging MAN and WAN service of choice. Full Story
By Ralph Santitoro
January 21, 2004
This article explores the different considerations for Ethernet service performance required for carrier-grade SLAs and describes how the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) is defining them. Full Story
October 13, 2003 - The Metro Ethernet Forum announced its first certified products today at the Metro Ethernet World Congress in Berlin, identifying 16 vendors whose 39 products successfully passed lab tests of their compliance to the carrier Ethernet specifications created by the MEF. More...
Marking a significant advance in Ethernet’s 30 year history
Newport Beach, CA - Oct 9th, 2003 - Carrier-class Ethernet Services took a major step forward this month with the ratification of the industry's first Ethernet service standard by the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF). The new standard - MEF Technical Specification - Ethernet Services Model Phase 1 - is a significant advance in Ethernet's 30-year history. This is the first formal definition of Ethernet service capabilities and marks Ethernet's inexorable progress from a Local Area Network connectivity technology to a robust Metropolitan and Wide Area Network services delivery technology. More... (PDF)
MEF 1 Technical Specification "Ethernet Service Model, Phase 1"
Sept. 27, 2003 - This article is the second part of the previous Insight into the Metro's
Future. It intends to provide a snapshot of the metro test equipment market,
which has been fully detailed in Frost & Sullivan's upcoming study, the
World MAN Test Equipment Market. This study provides a comprehensive view of
the metro testing industry and therefore includes a wide variety of testing
instruments. Metro test equipment has been categorized into three groups -
R&D, manufacturing, and I&M. Each type of instrument is of critical
significance for metro networks. More...
New MEF Members Reflect Industry Commitment to Standards-Based Metro Ethernet Services
Newport Beach, CA – Aug 20, 2003 – Following the Metro Ethernet Forum’s (MEF) SUPERCOMM Services Interoperability demonstration featuring 28 member companies in June, the MEF further increases momentum with the addition of eight new members, an expanded Board of Directors, and solid technical progress made in defining the industry standard for Metro Ethernet Services. The Metro Ethernet Forum is the leading industry group dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Ethernet in metro networks worldwide. More... (PDF)
Lightwave
Metro Ethernet Forum ratifies first standard
October9, 2003
SONET vs. Ethernet: Which Technology Is Best Suited For Data Services?
By Gary Southwell, Metro Ethernet Forum
October 2003
Over the past several years there has been quite a bit of technology debate
over SONET vs. Ethernet. In fact, the issue is not so much about technology,
but the services which each can support... Full Story
"Metro Ethernet: What it is and how to choose"
Telemanagement Sept. 2003
Carrier's technology choices do make a difference to customers - why this is
a concern to you and the industry. Full Story (PDF)
By Jessy Cavazos, Research Analyst
Oct. 7, 2003 - An interview with Bob Mandeville, MEF's Editor for the Test Methods
Sub-committee, from the analyst organization Frost & Sullivan and their Test
and Measurement portal, an industry leader in the test & measurement market
engineering industry. Full Story
Test & Measurement Sector e-Newsletter - Aug. 2003
Frost & Sullivan shares a recent study on metro area network (MAN) test equipment in the latest issue on Growth Opportunities in the Test & Measurement enewsletter which looks at the Insight into the Metro's Future (Part 1) . This monthly industry e-Newsletter is published by Frost & Sullivan's Test & Measurement Group. It aims to provide valuable insights into the issues that the analysts believe are shaping today's competitive Industry.
This report summary on metro area network (MAN) test equipment reveals that it is one area in the communications industry that is likely to witness revenue growth starting this year. MAN connects users with computer resources in a geographic area larger than that covered by a large local area network (LAN), but smaller than that covered by a wide area network (WAN). Full Story
By Ken Wieland
The Metro Ethernet Forum argues against further investment in legacy SDH/SONET networks to meet growing demand for Ethernet services.
Show me a technology that exists today that has the same point-and-click bandwidth provisioning capability [as optical Ethernet]. Nan Chen, President, MEF. Full Story
By Elizabeth Biddlecombe
July 28, 2003 - Leaders from some 34 technology groups met in San Francisco at the end of last week to effect greater harmonization and cooperation between themselves. Orchestrated by the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB) and hosted by the MEF, this largest-ever gathering of telecom forum chiefs was unusual for the number of high-level representatives from so many bodies that attended. Some 69 chiefs from 34 fora - representing 5,000 member organizations worldwide - convened, representing technologies as diverse as optical inter-networking and "4G" wireless. Full Story (PDF)
By Jim Duffy, June 23, 2003
An industry perspective article on the advances of Ethernet, as the traditional LAN technology turns 30 years-old... Full Story
June, 2003 Full Story (PDF)
By Khali Henderson, June 2003 Full Story
By Kathleen Richards, June 2003
The possibility of Ethernet outside the enterprise caught the attention of many a few years ago when several startup carriers, dubbed ELECs (Ethernet local-exchange carriers), began to loudly market their services. Full Story
By Martyn Warwick, May 27, 2003
Next week, the annual Supercomm exhibition and conference will take place in Atlanta, Georgia in the US. Full Story
By Tim Green
More than a dozen vendors associated with MEF are claiming the first public demonstration of metropolitan Ethernet service interoperability between what customers perceive as point-to-point circuits and meshed networks. Full Story
By Sam Masud, Senior Technology Editor, May 2003
As long as Ethernet technology was confined to the LAN, it was straightforward and well understood by an enterprise's MIS department. But then, starting a few years ago, service providers such as Cogent and Telseon (now a part of OnFiber Communications) began offering Ethernet services for Internet access or extending customer LANs across the metro and even nationally. Full Story
High Speed Link •Low Speed Link
May 6, 2003- Martyn Warwick, Editor-in-Chief, Telecom TV interviews Nan Chen, President of the MEF and discusses the adoption of carrier-class optical ethernet for metropolitan markets.
The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), an industry group that promotes adoption of Ethernet in metro networks worldwide, will offer the first public multivendor interoperability demonstration of carrier-grade metro Ethernet services. Full Story
By: Sam Masud Telecommunications Americas Published 05/01/03
Ethernet technology was confined to the LAN, it was straightforward and well understood by an enterprise's MIS department. Full Story
APRIL 25, 2003 - Theres no question that Ethernet is the technology of choice in corporate networks. Its cheap, easy to manage, capable of providing bandwidth from 1 Mbit/s to 10 Gbit/s, and, by now, everyone and his brother is familiar with it. Full Story
By Kirk Laughlin, America's Network April 1, 2003 Full Story
By Zoe Moleshead
The increasing maturity, predictability and cost savings that Ethernet offers are helping to push the technology in the metro area, says Nan Chen. The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) has set itself an August deadline for the completion of several service standards and specifications, as it looks to push the uptake of Ethernet in Metropolitan area networks (MANs). Full Story
By Martin Courtney March 11, 2003
Specifications to allow carriers to offer guaranteed-bandwidth Ethernet Wan services are due in August. The completion of Metro Ethernet service specifications in August this year may accelerate the take-up of the technology by telecoms carriers, leading to a wider range of cheaper, faster, more reliable wide area network (Wan) services becoming available to corporation.Full Story
 By Manek Dubash, Editor-In-Chief, March 6, 2003
Certainty is something that arrives but rarely. As a hypothesis, you can be reasonably sure that the sun will rise tomorrow, although even there, the scientific method teaches us that even apparently incontrovertible facts are only theories that have yet to be disproved. This is of course how it should be. Full Story (PDF)
By Peter Heywood, March 6, 2003
The Ethernet services bandwagon gathered momentum this week, with yesterday's announcement that Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ - message board) has become a member of the Metro Ethernet Forum (see Verizon, Rockefeller Join MEF ). Full Story
By Loring Wirbel, March 5, 2003
DENVER, Colo. The Metro Ethernet Forum has defined new services for public-network Ethernet transport, "Ethernet LAN Services" for multipoint-to-multipoint, and "Ethernet Line Services" for point-to-multipoint. Full Story
By Simon Marshall, for Total Telecom, March 4, 2003
Metro Ethernet Forum expects its new standards to boost the market. Full Story (PDF)
By Jeff Hecht, January 2003
A new family of standards is in development to extend the range of Ethernet to metro and access networks. Full Story
By Elizabeth Biddlecombe
July 28, 2003 - Leaders from some 34 technology groups met in San Francisco at the end of last week to effect greater harmonization and cooperation between themselves. Orchestrated by the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB) and hosted by the MEF, this largest-ever gathering of telecom forum chiefs was unusual for the number of high-level representatives from so many bodies that attended. Some 69 chiefs from 34 fora - representing 5,000 member organization worldwide - convened, representing technologies as diverse as optical inter-networking and "4G" wireless. Document (PDF)
By Mary Jander, Senior Editor
ATLANTA -- Supercomm 2003 -- A large-scale demonstration of live metro Ethernet services is on view here this week, in yet another testament to growing interest in the topic. More...
By Martyn Warwick, May 27, 2003
Next week, the annual Supercomm exhibition and conference will take place in Atlanta, Georgia in the US. More...
By Jennifer Sorosiak, FPN Contributing Editor
December 16, 2002
FREMONT, Calif. and NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) today announced the establishment of a formal, cooperative liaison relationship with the MPLS Forum to facilitate the development of MPLS and metro Ethernet technology and markets. Full Story
By Paula Bernier, December 16, 2002
The Metro Ethernet Forum today announced the establishment of a formal,cooperative liaison relationship with the MPLS Forum to facilitate the development of MPLS and metro Ethernet technology and markets. Full Story
By Martyn Warwick, December 6, 2002
So far its not been much heard of in Europe, but across the Atlantic the Metro Ethernet Forum is attracting influential members and taking considerable strides towards making optical Ethernet the technology of choice in metropolitan networks, initially in North America and then, hopefully and in due course, throughout Europe and the rest of the world. If successful in its aims, the initiative will have the profoundest implications for telecoms carriers and network operators everywhere. Full Story
By Bob Klessig and Pascal Menezes, Metro Ethernet Forum, September/October, 2002 Issue
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By Nan Chen, Metro Ethernet Forum, August, 2002
Once strictly a data protocol, optical Ethernet is finding applications in the metropolitan area network. Full Story
By Craig Matsumoto, August 20, 2002
One year after its formation, the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) is making progress at unifying the industry's definitions for Ethernet services. Full Story
By Jim Duffy, August 14, 2002
The Metro Ethernet Forum Wednesday said it has made "significant progress" in defining specifications for employing Ethernet as a transport infrastructure and service offering in metropolitan area networks. Full Story
By Jim Duffy, May 9, 2002
The Metro Ethernet Forum this week announced progress in defining technical specifications for metro Ethernet services and said that its membership ranks have swelled to 77 companies in less than a year. Full Story
By Mike Downing
Two new industry forums have declared war on network bottlenecks, and Ethernet is their weapon of choice. The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) and the Ethernet in the First Mile Alliance (EFMA) are initiating activity to continue the deployment and improvement of Ethernet infrastructure at the metro and access layers, respectively. Full Story
By Ron Young, March 2002
Ethernet in the metro area is a technology ablaze. The tremendous growth in worldwide data traffic has pushed the legacy SONET-based network infrastructure to its limits, leaving a bottleneck in the metro and a need for new technologies that can scale to accommodate this growth. Full Story
By Jeff Caruso, 11/12/01
The Metro Ethernet Forum last week revealed it has reached several agreements at its October technical committee meeting. Created earlier this year, the Metro Ethernet Forum already has 59 high-profile members, ranging from 3Com to Yipes. Its goal is to accelerate the adoption of optical Ethernet in metropolitan-area networks. Full Story
By Terri Gimpleson, 11/05/01
In an effort to make Ethernet "carrier-class" for metropolitan-area network deployment, the Metro Ethernet Forum is endorsing a technique that utilizes
Multi-protocol Label Switching to enhance the resiliency and reliability of the
LAN technology. Full Story
Light Reading November 5, 2001
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- With the mission of accelerating the adoption of optical Ethernet as the technology of choice in metro networks worldwide, the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) held its Second Technical Committee meeting in Boston from October 23 to 25. Full Story
Business Wire, 09/05/01
The Metro Ethernet Forum today announced that an impressive list of independent industry analysts have endorsed Ethernet as the most promising new technology in metro networks, even suggesting that it may become the dominant means of MAN data transport. Full Story
08/08/01
The recently launched Metro Ethernet Forum held its first technical meeting to discuss overall architecture issues, performance and protocol requirements for carrier-class services. The organization now has 50 member companies. The next meeting will be held in late October in Boston. Full Story
By David Greenfield, 08/01/01
What does it take to shed a half-million bucks from your IT budget? Nan Chen, the creator and president of the Metro Ethernet Forum, believes that the group can promote optical Ethernet as the solution for building Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs) and simultaneously create standards that will cut optical equipment costs in half. Full Story
By Marguerite Reardon, 06/25/01
You know a technology has become mainstream when a group of competing companies scramble to form new marketing alliances. That is exactly what is happening with Ethernet in the metropolitan area network. In fact, a group of service providers and equipment vendors recently decided to launch the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF). Full Story
By John Geralds, 06/14/01
Service providers, local exchange carriers and network equipment vendors are among the group of 37 companies that have set up a forum to advance Ethernet technology in optical networks. The consortium, called the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), aims to push the adoption of optical Ethernet technology in metro networks around the world. Full Story
By George A. Chidi Jr. IDG News Service, 06/12/01
BOSTON -- Seeking to promote the use of optical Ethernet technology in metropolitan networks, several networking companies have banded together in a forum, the group announced Tuesday in a conference call from San Francisco. Metropolitan-area networks connect smaller LANs in a city into a single larger network. Ethernet is easier to administrate and cheaper to maintain than the Synchronous Optical Network systems frequently used to transfer data in a metropolitan network. This makes the new technology attractive for network architects. Full Story
Semiconductor Business News, 06/12/01
SAN FRANCISCO -- A collection of 37 companies here today announced the formation of a new, non-profit organization that hopes to propel Ethernet technology in optical networks. The consortium, called the Metro Ethernet Forum, hopes to accelerate the use of Ten Gigabit Ethernet and related technologies in the wide-area networks. Full Story
By George A. Chidi Jr. IDG News Service, 06/12/01
Several networking companies have set up a group to promote the use of optical Ethernet technology in metropolitan networks. Full Story
By Bob Woods, June 12, 2001
A new group, The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), wants to drive the adoption of optical Ethernet as the "technology of choice" in metro networks through several marketing and technical initiatives. Full Story
Marguerite Reardon, Senior Editor, Light Reading June 11, 2001
You know a technology has become mainstream when a group of competing companies scramble to form new marketing alliances. That is exactly what is happening with Ethernet in the metropolitan area network. Tomorrow, a group of service providers and equipment vendors are launching the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF). Full Story
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