AT&T said it has deployed 400 Gbps connectivity on its backbone network between Dallas and Atlanta using white box hardware – which the company said is believed to be a first. “This isn’t a proof of concept, but a significant…
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MEF19: We See the Future and Its Got SD-WAN Written All Over It
The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) is holding its annual conference this week in Los Angeles and the focus is abundantly clear. SD-WAN, the emerging enterprise connectivity application standard, is all the rage here and MEF leadership outlined the organization’s intention…
Comcast Gigabit Ethernet Enables Movie Theater Transformation
Comcast Business and NetLevel are partnering on an ambitious movie theatre transformation project. NetLevel is a two-year old company that offers a “nationwide, fiber-optic and wireless based, Out of Home Entertainment Network for theater operators,” according to a press release….
MEF Aims to Enable Back Office Interconnection to Support Inter-Carrier Services
Two new initiatives from service provider standards organization MEF aim to streamline the process of establishing customer circuits that originate and terminate on different service provider networks. If this sounds familiar, that’s because MEF has been doing a lot of…
MEF SD-WAN Specification Targets Service Provider Interoperability
A draft specification from the MEF aims to make it easier for enterprises to order software defined wide area network (SD-WAN) services that span multiple network operators and to enable service to be established in an automated manner. The MEF…
Report: AT&T is Top Ethernet Provider Worldwide
AT&T is the top Ethernet provider worldwide, according to Vertical Systems Group’s Mid-Year 2018 Global Provider Ethernet Leaderboard. It’s the first U.S. company to hold the top global position. The carrier is followed by Colt (U.K), CenturyLink (U.S.), Orange Business…
Report: CenturyLink Tops in Carrier Ethernet Market Share
CenturyLink has the highest carrier Ethernet market share of U.S. companies, according to the latest Vertical Systems Group carrier Ethernet Leaderboard. Following CenturyLink were AT&T, Verizon, Spectrum Enterprise, Comcast, Windstream and Cox. All of those companies had Leaderboard status, meaning that…
AT&T Airship Fueling Cloud, AI Initiatives, Including 5G Core
Newly launched, the AT&T Airship open infrastructure project aims to simplify site operation for cloud operators. The company is working with Intel Corporation, the OpenStack Foundation and Korean telecom provider SKT on the initiative. “Simply put, Airship lets you build…
Report: U.S. Business Fiber Availability Increases to 54.8%
Fiber availability for large- and mid-sized commercial buildings jumped to 54.8 percent in the U.S. in 2017, according to a new report about business fiber availability from Vertical Systems Group As a result of this growth, the U.S. Fiber Gap…
MEF 3.0: On-Demand Certification Beyond Ethernet, Emphasis on APIs, Community
The latest bundling of initiatives from the organization originally known as the Metro Ethernet Forum goes beyond the organization’s original focus to also encompass wavelength, IP, SD-WAN, security-as-a-service and possibly other areas. The new bundling is dubbed MEF 3.0. MEF…
MEF/ ATIS Carrier Ethernet Standard Targets Inter-carrier Ordering
MEF and the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions released a standard aimed at making it easier to order Carrier Ethernet services. The new MEF/ ATIS Carrier Ethernet standard, “Ethernet Ordering Technical Specification: Business Requirements and Use Cases,” is an effort…
Report: Verizon Moves in to Top 3 for Carrier Ethernet Market Share
Eight companies have at least 4 percent of the U.S. Ethernet services each, according to Vertical System Group’s mid-year U.S. Carrier Ethernet Leaderboard. Those Carrier Ethernet market share leaders, in order, are AT&T, Level 3, Verizon, Spectrum Enterprise (Charter), CenturyLink,…
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