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Article: Extended Ethernet lights fire in the metro: intercity Ethernet networks highlight variances in competitive game plans.(Metro Optical)
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- America's Network
- Article date:
- March 1, 2004
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With recent announcements by Verizon, AT&T, BellSouth and SBC of Ethernet services spanning the continent, the old designation of metro Ethernet is fading rapidly. The nation's largest carriers may still be some ways off from achieving the flat packet networks envisioned at the beginning of the decade, but make no mistake--legacy circuit data technologies are facing a powerful adversary.
"We did a recent report in which we interviewed 27 major service providers around the world, 17 of whom are in North America," says Michael Howard, a principal analyst with Infonetics. "All but two have Ethernet services already, and the two holdouts are planning on launching ...