Nan Chen is president of the Metro Ethernet Forum, a Newport Beach, Calif.-based consortium of equipment manufacturers and service providers developing standards for providing carrier-class Ethernet ...

Cisco launched a range of network products on Tuesday to help drive adoption of Metro Ethernet -- a technology hailed as an ideal means for providing large numbers of high-speed broadband and VPN ...

Foundry last week launched a router and switch products aimed at the core and edge of carrier metropolitan area networks. The NetIron Internet and Metro Router (IMR) 640 is targeted at the networks of ...

Comcast is expanding its services to medium-sized businesses by introducing metro Ethernet connections at up to 10-Gigabit speed, launching Monday in more than 20 U.S. cities. The services include ...