Today's incumbent service providers are seeking to accommodate increasing demands for bandwidth, security and service level management resulting from the proliferation of LAN-based applications.

These types of issues (See Etherjack: Ethernet in the Metro access and beyond–Part I) are not unique to Ethernet. Frame Relay, for example, faced similar growth hurdles, and it was not until ...

More and more enterprises are looking to service providers to interconnect their VoIP sites. Outsourcing and expensing the service seems like a more attractive option than owning the network, but ...