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Ethernet: From its birth in the early 1970s by Bob Metcalfe and his team as a project at Xerox’s PARC, it was designed to simplify communications between machines on a common network. Its simplicity and practicality as a LAN technology enabled it to become commonplace on the local level, allowing...

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With Verizon rolling out 150 megabit-per-second broadband service and 4G wireless service on the march, the notion of broadband over copper wires might seem dated or lackluster. But for telecom service providers targeting small businesses, copper – and in particular, copper-based mid-band Ethernet...

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In preparing an issue on Carrier Ethernet, we wanted to take some time to talk, one-on-one, to one of the more interesting companies working in the space. Optimum Lightpath, a subsidiary of Cablevision, has been blazing trails in the Ethernet world for quite some time now, chipping away at deeply...

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Wide scale deployment of broadband services is driving the deployment of Ethernet in carrier networks. Multiple Protocol Label Switching-Transport Profile (MPLS-TP), and Provider Backbone Bridging (PBB) will improve the scalability of Ethernet networks, while Ethernet/MPLS Operations,...

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While global economies continued to recover sluggishly in 2010, the BSS/OSS sector definitely did not move at a snail’s pace. Sure, some of the buzzwords were the same—convergence, silos, virtualization, greening, clouds, smart grids—but many left the realm of bleeding edge tech-speak to become...

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If you attended last month’s Management World Americas, it was hard not to leave with two words on your mind: smart grid. Everyone from the TM Forum’s Chairman, Keith Willetts, on down was buzzing about the coming smart grid revolution and what it could mean for the telecoms industry in general and...

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Cloud services are growing quickly as companies look for ways to minimize capital investments while still getting benefits from high-powered processing and scalable applications. The more services that move to the cloud, the more imperative it is for users to have top-tier OSS/BSS...

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“It’s strange but it's true, I can't get over the way you love me like you do. But I have to be sure, when I walk out that door. Oh, how I want to be free, baby. Oh how I want to be free. Oh how I want to break free.” -Queen, “I Want to Break Free”.Ethernet knows what Freddie Mercury was talking...

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