As demand skyrockets for high-speed Internet access, metropolitan-area networks are developing as the crucial link between local-area networks and long-haul or wide-area networks. In one sense, metro ...

It may mean snaking optical fiber through sewer lines and old tunnels or burying conduits in public transportation rights-of-way, but the city of Chicago is setting plans to build a high-speed ...

A Metropolitan Area Network, or MAN, is a series of LANs (Local Area Networks) that are interconnected through various means in a Metropolitan area such as a city and its subburbs. If a company has a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Metropolitan-area network (MAN) service providers now have an opportunity to increase revenues by offering transparent local-area network (TLAN) services combined with Internet access to customers in ...

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 ...

Businesses with multiple locations can easily connect them as if they were all in the same building by taking advantage of Comcast Business Ethernet Network Service. The service lets you connect ...

The need is to have 100-500 clients on a large metro area network watch a live video stream, being recorded in the same property as the network. Long ago, we did this with a VBrick streaming server, ...

A wide area network (WAN) is a data network, usually used for connecting computers, that spans a wide geographical area. WANs can be used to connect cities, states, or even countries. WANs are often ...

More and more enterprises are looking to service providers to interconnect their VoIP sites. Outsourcing and expensing the service seems like a more attractive option than owning the network, but ...