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 ...

Multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) deployments to date have been focused on providing traffic engineering and network-based IP virtual private network (VPN) capabilities to IP core networks, and to ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...