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Three New Technical Specifications Announced by the MEF
Advances in Management, Circuit Emulation and Services Testing
May 14 th , Irvine , California – The MEF approved three new specifications at the recent quarterly meeting, held in Orange County , California . The new specifications address the areas of service operations, administration and maintenance - OAM (MEF17), conformance testing for circuit emulation over Ethernet (MEF 18) and testing the UNI Type 1 (MEF 19). These specifications are available now on the technical specifications page .
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Last year’s awards ceremony |
April 11th, 2007 - MEF, today announced a “call for entries” for Service Providers to enter their prestigious North American Carrier Ethernet Service Provider of the Year 2007 Awards.
The deadline for application is May 25th and the awards will be announced and presented at a champagne reception during NXTComm 2007, held on the MEF booth at 12 noon on Wednesday June 20th
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Latest telecoms market data and deployment studies on the sector’s hottest global topic
New Delhi, 19th March - The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) marked Carrier Ethernet’s triumphant entry into the Indian telecoms market today with a high profile press conference at the Oberoi, New Delhi prior to the opening of the Convergence exhibition. India, though a relatively late starter compared with regions that have experienced explosive growth in Carrier Ethernet deployment over the last 18 months, is seen by industry analysts as potentially one of the top global Carrier Ethernet growth markets over the next 5 years. Those attending were treated to a preview of the very latest developments in Carrier Ethernet technology and the MEF’s plans for 2007, as well as seeing new deployment case studies from a number of Service Providers including VSNL... [click here to view full story]
Irvine, California, 22nd February 2007 – In his new role as Chief Operating Officer for the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), Kevin Vachon today outlined the expanding scope of Carrier Ethernet and the strategic role of the MEF in the year ahead. Also speaking today at NetEvents European Press/Analyst Summit in Evian, Nan Chen, President of the MEF delivered an industry update, projected technical work and the road ahead for MEF certification and provided an overview of European marketing initiatives.
Figures confirming the astonishing growth in the Carrier Ethernet market were provided by Michael Howard, Principal Analyst at Infonetics Research, who stated: "Carrier Ethernet Switch and Router (CESR) manufacturer revenue worldwide grew an astounding 132% from 2005 to 2006, and will continue strong growth to $9.1B in 2010, a 5-year CAGR of 16%. Carriers clearly want and are deploying Carrier Ethernet qualified routers and Ethernet switches…. (click here to view full press release) (MS Word 88Kb)
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Milestone in Carrier Ethernet’s year of exceptional growth
Hong Kong, December 4th 2006: The Metro Ethernet Forum announced today its hundredth member, ARRIS, marking another milestone in a year of exceptional growth. ARRIS, based in Georgia, USA, sees its MEF membership as a key component in its mission to provide broadband local access networks with innovative, best-in-class video, high-speed data and telephony systems to deliver voice, video and data to the home and business. Other cable equipment and MSO companies are clearly in accord, as ARRIS joins a wave of recent sign-ups, including Cox and Time Warner Cable, so that the MEF membership has jumped 50% in the last 6 months alone, while the Carrier Ethernet market is itself anticipating exceptional growth in the next 5 years… More
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MEF launches ground-breaking Service Provider certification program
New York, October 25th, 2006: "Carrier Ethernet is now the front-running technology for mission-critical real-time services including VoIP, disaster recovery, conferencing and enterprise applications." This was the message delivered by Nan Chen, President of the Metro Ethernet Forum as he launched the MEF 14 Service Provider Certification Program today. He also pointed out that this is the first time in the history of the telecommunications industry that any forum had put its technical specifications to verification, not just in functionality, but in terms of actual service delivery and performance. "Carrier Ethernet doesn’t just deliver – from today it delivers to globally recognized service level specifications" he stated.
"Ethernet is on track toward metro service dominance, as service providers continue to look for ways to reduce operating expenditures and enable new revenue streams," says Michael Howard, principal analyst of Infonetics Research and lead author of a just-released worldwide service provider study. “And now that the number one technical issue that was plaguing service providers rolling out metro Ethernet networks last year—QoS—is being addressed by manufacturers, and proven by the MEF 14 testing, the Ethernet adoption curve is speeding up. Manufacturers have added many new QoS features, improving end-to-end QoS with carrier-class Ethernet products, and service providers depend on the MEF testing to insure that these adhere to the standards."
"Our customers are moving rapidly towards converged network architectures" confirms Tom Roche, vice president, marketing, for network voice and data services, Verizon Business. "With the announcement of MEF 14 testing for service providers, enterprises will feel confident that their providers’ Carrier Ethernet services can support mission critical and converged applications such as ERP, VoIP, videoconferencing and business continuity". More…
NetEvents 28th September, 2006: The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) set out eighteen months ago to define and accelerate the worldwide adoption of Carrier class Ethernet Networks and Services. The MEF considers Carrier Ethernet as the front-running technology for the deployment of mission critical applications. More... (MS Word 87Kb)
NetEvents, 28th September, 2006: Winners of the prestigious “Carrier Ethernet European Service Provider of the Year Awards - 2006” were announced at the second annual CEWC in Madrid this week. More... (MS Word 84Kb)
 Daniel Bar-Lev, MEF Marketing Co-Chair (right) presents Dr. Alireza Mahmoodshahi, CTO at COLT (left) with the MEF’s “European Carrier Ethernet Service Provider of the Year Award for Outstanding Innovation” at the 2006 Carrier Ethernet World Congress in Madrid.
May 14, 2007urope_sp_06_sm.jpg" width="150" height="100" border="0" class="PixL">Daniel Bar-Lev, MEF Marketing Co-Chair (right) presents Danny Cote, Head of Network Solutions, Orange Business Services (left) with the MEF’s European Carrier Ethernet Service Provider of the Year Award for “Best in Business” at the 2006 Carrier Ethernet World Congress in Madrid.
 Beijing, China: September 7, 2006. Four years on from his first keynote speech at the world's premier Ethernet event "Ethernet World" Beijing, Nan Chen, President of the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) presented to an audience of over 1,500 IT professionals. His topic for this years Keynote was "A New World with Carrier Ethernet" reflecting Carrier Ethernet's evolution from "best effort" origins to the technology of choice for mission-critical communications that power the next generation Internet.
His presentation began with a survey of latest developments – including the full definition of Carrier Ethernet and an update on Ethernet's recent invasion of the access space. Other topics included announcements of the 2nd Asia Pacific Carrier Ethernet Service provider of Year awards and the latest on the MEF certification programs. He also announced further expansion of the MEF's activities and membership - including two new significant members, China Telecom and PCCW. More... (MS Word 75Kb)
July, 3rd 2006 - The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), today announced a “call for entries” for ServiceMay 14, 2007opean “Carrier Ethernet Service Provider of the Year 2006 Awards” . The awards are sponsored by the MEF and winners of the Asia-Pacific awards will be announced at the EthernetWorld conference Beijing on Thursday September 7th 2006 following a Keynote presentation from MEF President, Nan Chen. Winners of the European awards will be announced at The Carrier Ethernet World Congress (CEWC) in Madrid on Tuesday 26th September 2006.
Following requests, we have extended the deadline for applications for the European award until Friday September 15th.
The forthcoming awards will cover both business practice and outstanding Carrier Ethernet innovation. As global metro Ethernet deployment continues to grow, the MEF Carrier Ethernet Service Provider of the year awards will again set new milestones in how creativity is changing the ways in which the world communicates…
GlobalComm Chicago, 12 noon, June 6th, 2006 - The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) announced the winners for their second “U.S. Carrier Ethernet Service Provider of the Year” awards. Verizon received the “Service Provider of the Year - Best in Business” award and Optimum Lightpath received the “ Service Provider of the Year - Outstanding Innovation” award at a champagne reception held today at GlobalComm 2006, Chicago on June 6th.
”I would like to congratulate the winners for their well deserved awards” commented Nan Chen, President of the Metro Ethernet Forum, “and the runners up too for setting such a high standard in the second year of this competition. May I also take this opportunity to extend my congratulations to U.S. service providers in general for being the first to be certified for Carrier Ethernet services – so taking the lead in driving and developing the Carrier Ethernet market across the globe.”
The judging panel -- which included analysts David Hold, Current Analysis; Michael Howard, Infonetics Research; Stan Hubbard, Heavy Reading; Ron Kaplan, IDC; Nick Maynard, Yankee Group plus Bob Mandeville from Iometrix and the MEF Board -- singled out Verizon for the Best in Business award. Against strong competition, Verizon was chosen on the strength of its marketing excellence, major Ethernet infrastructure investment and consequent 77% growth from an already large Ethernet customer base. The Innovation Award was also a close race with Optimum Lightpath being chosen on the strength of its broad spectrum of innovation on all three counts -- technical, service and business.
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From left to right: Mike Tighe, MEF; Ron Kaplan, IDC; Tom Roche, VP Advanced Services, Verizonbusiness, Nan Chen, MEF; Stan Hubbard, Heavy Reading.
 From left to right: Ron Kaplan, IDC; Mike Tighe, MEF; Jack Burton, Director, Systems Engineering accepts award on behalf of Brian Fabiano, Senior Vice President of Architecture, Optimum Lightpath; Nan Chen, MEF; Stan Hubbard, Heavy Reading.
40 systems and 112 services from 15 vendors meet exacting test conditions
GlobalComm, Chicago, USA, June 6th 2006 - The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) held a special awards ceremony at GlobalComm, Chicago, today to celebrate the first group of systems and services to comply with MEF 14 - Abstract Test Suite for Traffic Management. This MEF Certification ensures conformance to the MEF Quality of Service attributes – a requirement of SLAs (Service Level Agreements) supporting simultaneous real-time and data intensive business applications. The certificates were presented by Nan Chen, the president of the Metro Ethernet Forum, and Bob Mandeville, president and founder of Iometrix, the company responsible for the conformance testing.
”Quality of Service is a critical attribute to ensure that Carrier Ethernet services will deliver the strict performance and bandwidth guarantees our business customers demand” says Michael Tighe, Director of Corporate Strategy of Verizon, and chair of the MEF board, “These 14 vendors are to be congratulated for being the first to commit to premium Carrier Ethernet services, and the challenge of submitting their products to two months of exhaustive testing at the Iometrix labs.”
Bob Mandeville agrees: ”The Test Plan for Traffic Management developed by Iometrix includes no less than 183 test cases covering EPL, EVPL and E-LAN services and engaging complex policing algorithms applied to the UNI, the EVC and Classes of Service within the EVC. These vendors, in committing to MEF14, have made a major step towards true interoperability of the mechanisms providing service quality of Carrier Ethernet Services.”
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Tier One Service Providers Prove Their Commitment to Carrier Ethernet Services
London, UK, April 26, 2006 - Seven service providers took the stage today to receive certificates confirming their compliance to the Metro Ethernet Forum’s global Carrier Ethernet Service definitions. The ceremony took place at Light Reading’s Ethernet Expo Europe 2006, London UK, and the certificates were presented by Nan Chen, President of the MEF, and Bob Mandeville, President and Founder of Iometrix, the company responsible for the conformance testing.
The companies receiving certification in this first round were: AT&T, Bellsouth, Cablevision Lightpath (the first cable operator to apply), Met-Net, ntl:Telewest Business (the first European service provider to apply), Qwest and Verizon... More... (MS Word)
MEF SP certification award photos,
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Las Vegas, March 21, 2006 - The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) announced today that the next phase of its Carrier Ethernet strategy and certification program will address the broad spectrum of access technologies - from copper pairs, coax cable to optical fiber and wireless. The MEF believes Ethernet is a universal communications technology and their first objective was to enable Carrier Ethernet as the preferred carrier technology and service. They are now seeking to ensure its universal availability by removing any access obstacles to Ethernet services.
”Carrier Ethernet services are proving highly popular, both with end users and service providers. We now want to ensure one hundred percent reach-ability via any existing access medium,” said Mark Whalley, Co-Chair of the MEF Marketing Committee. “We are determined to deliver the full benefits of Ethernet services by opening access to anyone, anywhere, anytime. By 2010 there should be no excuse for not delivering Carrier Ethernet services to every office, every home and to mobile users too.”
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Las Vegas, March 21, 2006 - The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) announced today the schedule for this year’s North American “Carrier Ethernet Service Provider of the Year” awards. Entries are invited for submission by May 19th from enterprising and innovative service providers offering Carrier Ethernet services, and the results will be announced at Globalcomm on June 6th 2006. As in last year’s competition, two awards are offered: "Best in Business” and “Outstanding Innovation.” More... (MS Word)
Irvine, Calif., February 6, 2006 - Nan Chen, President of the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), today announced the launch of the next phase of the MEF Certification program that certifies to the recent ratification of the Abstract Test Suite for Traffic Management Phase 1 (MEF 14) - Hard QoS. This latest document specifies test criteria for Traffic Management focusing on the critical performance and bandwidth allocation attributes which form the basis of Service Level Specifications for Ethernet Services. MEF Certification to MEF 14 ensures Carrier Ethernet equipment conforms to the MEF Hard QoS attributes, which in turn enables the service quality of the Ethernet services they deliver to support both real-time and data intensive business applications. More...
London, UK – December 7th, 2005 – COLT and FLAG Telecom Ltd are this year’s winners of the Metro Ethernet Forum’s (MEF’s) prestigious “European Carrier Ethernet Service Provider of the Year” awards. The winners were announced at the Enterprise Networks Networking Dinner on 30th November, at the Renaissance Hotel, Heathrow. More...
“Award Profile Boosted As MEF Membership Surges”
Beijing, China, October 28th, 2005: The winners of the Metro Ethernet Forum’s prestigious ”Asia Pacific Service Provider of the Year” awards were announced today – with Hong Kong’s PCCW receiving the ”Best in Business” award and the ”Outstanding Innovation” award being received by KVH, Japan. The awards were presented by Nan Chen, President of the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) at a ceremony held at Ethernet World, Beijing on Friday 28th October in the presence of over 1,600 IT professionals attending Nan Chen’s Keynote address. More...
"Tier 1 Service Providers Quick to Respond"
Ethernet Expo, New York, October 12, 2005 - Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet and Advisory Director to the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) announced today the launch of Phase 2 of the MEF's Carrier Ethernet Certification Program extending the benefits of certification to service providers offering Carrier Ethernet services. Since Phase 1 of the program – focusing on systems and equipment certification – was launched in April this year, already 39 systems have been certified as complying with the MEF's Carrier Ethernet service specifications.
SAN JOSE, California, October 12, 2005 - Worldwide metro Ethernet equipment revenue more than doubles between 2004 and 2008, from $3.1 billion to $7.6 billion, totaling almost $26 billion during the five-year period, and ports shipments will more than quadruple, according to Infonetics Research's Metro Ethernet Equipment report.
39 systems from 16 vendors set the Carrier Ethernet Certification ball rolling
CEWC, Berlin, Germany, September 13th, 2005 - The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) held a special awards ceremony today to celebrate the first group of systems to comply with it’s global Carrier Ethernet service definitions. The ceremony took place at the 2005 Carrier Ethernet World Congress, Berlin, in the presence of Nan Chen, President and Director of the MEF, while the certificates were presented by Bob Mandeville, President and Founder of Iometrix, the company responsible for the conformance testing.
12 Companies to Demonstrate End-to-End Interoperability at Carrier Ethernet World Congress, Berlin, Germany
CEWC, Berlin, Germany, September 13th, 2005 – Europe's very first public Carrier Ethernet interoperability demonstration will be a feature of the Carrier Ethernet World Congress in Berlin, Germany, September 13-15, 2005. The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) announced today that twelve vendors will be demonstrating interoperability and scalability of Carrier Ethernet implementations, including E-Line (point to point) and E-LAN (multipoint) business applications plus residential triple play applications including voice over IP and video broadcasting traffic supplied by CPE devices and emulators.
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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...
Irvine, California, April 12, 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...
Latest RHK study confirms new application and cost saving expectations
CeBit, Hannover, Germany, March 10th, 2005 - A new study announced today by analysts RHK Inc. on behalf of the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) confirmed that end users continue to demand ever greater bandwidths across the WAN and are prepared to spend more on WAN services so long as they can reduce overall IT costs. 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, 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...
Beijing, November 12th, 2004. Nan Chen, Founding President of the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), today announced details of their prestigious "Asia Pacific Metro Ethernet Service Provider of the Year 2005 Awards". The awards are sponsored by the MEF, following the success of their 2004 European Service Provider awards - in which UK based Fibernet won the "Best in Business" award and Athens based, Attica Telecom, won the "Outstanding Innovation" award. More...
NEW ASIA-PAC STUDY SHOWS OPEX SAVINGS SOAR WITH METRO ETHERNET
Newport Beach, CA - June 21st, 2004. Announced today - an extensive study conducted on behalf of the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) by PointEast Research, highlights that the deployment of metro Ethernet will deliver significant and increasing OpEx savings over legacy private line, Frame Relay and ATM services. From six Asia-Pacific countries, eighteen service providers with already established metro Ethernet networks provided data to create a real-world forecast model for a typical metro area over three years. Not only did this reveal an average 21% reduction in operating costs over the period, but the savings increased year on year. The results were backed by two providers with significant Ethernet services deployments who are already seeing savings in the 20 percent range
London, UK - July 7th, 2004 - The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) and Enterprise Networks are proud to announce the winners for the prestigious "European Metro Ethernet Service Provider of the Year" awards. UK based Fibernet won the "European Metro Ethernet Service Provider of the Year - Best in Business" award and Athens, Greece based, Attica Telecom, won the "European Metro Ethernet Service Provider of the Year - Outstanding Innovation" award. More...
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