Cisco Systems Inc. last week announced a pair of switches that support Ethernet-based metropolitan-area networks and are aimed at network service providers looking to offer new capabilities to their ...

Colorado Springs, Colo. — Cisco Systems Inc. and Extreme Networks Inc. are expanding their metro Ethernet switching strategies to meet carriers' need for resiliency. Cisco is offering a new ...

FRAMINGHAM, MASS. — Optical Ethernet start-up Atrica Inc. this week rolled out a high-end switch for the core of metropolitan-area networks (MAN) designed to overcome the limitations of current ...

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 ...

Nortel Networks moved to beef up metro Ethernet networks on Tuesday at the Globalcomm carrier-equipment show in Chicago, rolling out a recently developed technology designed to make them more ...