A wide area network spans a large geographic area such as a city, state, or country. It can be private to connect parts of a business, or it can be public to connect smaller networks. The easiest way ...

The following content is from an older version of this website, and may not display correctly. Carriers have dealt with metro environments for years. The geographical dispersion of users across large ...

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 ...

Service providers are building metropolitan-area networks, and increasingly they’re turning to metro Ethernet equipment to make them happen. Infonetics Research this week issued a report that predicts ...

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 ...

It’s interesting how formerly distinct classes of wireless services have converged to refine what we mean by wireless metropolitan-area network (WMAN). Since most businesspeople spend most of their ...