Lucent Announces Further Breakthrough in 100 Gigabit per Second Ethernet-Over-Optical

In a paper presented to the Optical Fiber Communication Conference & Exposition (OFC) in Anaheim last week, Bell Labs announced the first reported optical transport of electronically multiplexed 107 Gigabit per second (Gbps) data. This result represents another significant milestone in the industry's march towards being able to offer transport speeds of 100 Gbps Ethernet data networking in metro area networks.

10-Gbit Ethernet over copper specification advances

The draft standard for 10-Gbit Ethernet over copper moved closer to approval after a meeting of the 802.3an task force. Additional editorial suggestions will be considered at a spring meeting, but editors at the IEEE 802 plenary session on last Thursday (March 9) said that all significant technical issues appear to have been resolved.

Extereme unveils BlackDiamond 12K

Extreme has built the BlackDiamond 12K, a new carrier Ethernet switch designed to deliver data and triple-play services to both business and residential subscribers, support for thousands of users per platform, and provide known QoS.

Ethernet Alliance adds 16 new members

Some of the prominent new members are Cisco Systems, Teknovus, and Neterion

Nyquist Capital article on Teknovus and Passave

This is an interesting article comparing Teknovus and Passave, two vendors for EPON chipsets. Particularly interesting is the prospect of acquisition for either of these companies by possible bigger players such as Broadcom.

Carrier Ethernet surges in 2005

Interesting article on LightReading on carrier Ethernet

Cisco Adds to Carrier Ethernet Products

Today Cisco introduced the Cisco ME 6500 Series Ethernet Switch and the Cisco ONS 15310 Metro Access (MA) multiservice provisioning platform (MSPP) which delivers Carrier Ethernet services over synchronous optical network, or SONET infrastructures. The Cisco ME 6500 Series Ethernet switches are available in two models and are available starting at a list price of $24,000. The Cisco ONS 15310-MA platform is also available now and a basic configuration model starts at a list price of $18,000.

Editshare chooses Chelsio 10Gb Ethernet adapters

EditShare LLC, the pioneer of cross platform shared media storage solutions for collaborative video editing, has chosen Chelsio's 10Gb Ethernet adapters as a high-speed interface solution for its video editing system. The EditShare collaborative editing and shared media storage system allows all connected content creation workstations to create and access a common pool of media files, while guaranteeing that individual workstations never interfere with, damage, or erase media on other workstations on the network. Read the press release at:

http://www.chelsio.com/newsevents/pr/pr_021306.php

Moving to 100 Gig Ethernet

There has been a lot of discussion in various forums since Force10 announced its desire to move to the 100 Gig Ethernet world. Some interesting articles are:

The Road to 100 Gig Ethernet
Deciding the Future of Ethernet

Lucent buy Riverstone for $170 million

Lucent today decided to buy a Carrier Ethernet company, Riverstone, for $170 million. Lucent has alreay been reselling Riverstone boxes for some time now. Riverstone's stock price shot up by 81% to give it a market capitalization of $125 million.

ClariPhy targets 10 Gig Ethernet

ClariPhy Communications, an Irvine-based startup, is developing mixed-signal ICs that set new performance benchmarks for multi-gigabit per second (Gbit/s) communications applications. The company's initial products target the emerging 10GBASE-LRM (LRM) Ethernet standard.

Verizon Budiness Extends Ethernet services

Verizon Business announced today that it has expanded the availability of its Ethernet access services in key cities in the United States, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. The expansion will enable large business and government customers to seamlessly link their offices -- via an advanced, cost-effective high-speed data and voice network -- not only locally and regionally, but nationally and globally as well. In addition, Verizon Business' Ethernet services will enable customers to more easily use Internet protocol (IP) applications, such as streaming media and distance-learning, at all of their company locations.