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 ...

System vendors are welcoming new technologies for carrying Ethernet over synchronous optical networks (SONET), a development that will enable additional services on their previously SONET-only ...

Many companies have made large investments in dense wavelength division multiplexing technologies to meet growing data and storage requirements. DWDM systems provided the first basic connectivity for ...

Once optical networks meant SONET, but now SONET is getting pushed into the background, especially in access networks, by other technologies such as Gigabit and eventually 10-Gigabit Ethernet. While ...

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 ...