Carrier Ethernet Industry Voices

BOSTON, MA, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE... Vertical Systems Group has initiated coverage of the Ethernet Exchange market. This initiative includes latest research on drivers and risks, customer segmentation, deployment timing, and projections for Ethernet Exchange ports and revenue. Vertical defines an Ethernet Exchange as a carrier-neutral marketplace solution for standardizing and simplifying Ethernet service interconnection among Service Providers.

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XO Communications announces now offers Carrier Ethernet access to its nationwide Ethernet infrastructure which reaches nearly four million buildings.  This new service connectivity with CENX enables the global Carrier Ethernet community connectivity at bandwidths from 3 Mbps to 10 Gbps to locations served by XO.  

CENX connection and integration services make Carrier Ethernet connection to and from XO's large footprint seamless and simple.  XO Communications Ethernet Services, offered with demanding SLA'a and granular bandwidth options, are utilized in more than 75 metropolitan  cities and where XO delivers last-mile Ethernet over Copper.   Reaching XO-served locations at speeds as low as 3 Mbps engages a tremendous number of new business opportunities to customers connected via the CENX exchange. 

"Connecting to the growing number of Ethernet service providers via CENX simplifies complex service level interactions and allows us to leverage our continuing investment in Ethernet services," said XO's Don MacNeil, vice president of XO Carrier Services Operations. "Key factors in our decision to work with CENX were its expertise, standardized approach to service alignment and service assurance."

EANTC, ancotel, and Light Reading launched a new extensive program for service providers to validate and showcase end-to-end Carrier Ethernet services across multiple carriers; the second phase of the program, including a demo, will debut at Ethernet Europe 2010.

Details of the demonstration are here:  http://www.eantc.com/events-showcases/global_interconnect_showcase_ii_2010/intro.html

A collaboration of Light Reading (http://www.lightreading.com/), EANTC AG (http://www.eantc.com/) (European Advanced Networking Test Center), the leading independent test lab, and ancotel, Europe's largest carrier interconnect company, the Phase 2 results of the Advanced Global Interconnect Test Program at Ethernet Europe on April 12 & 13 in London at the Marriott Grosvenor Square.

Today at the NetEvents conference in Barcelona Spain, the MEF announced the ratification of MEF 26.   This specification which defines Phase 1 of the External Network to Network Interface (ENNI), standardizes the reference point between service providers' MEF Certified Carrier Ethernet networks and services, marks a significant advance in the MEF's Global Interconnect Program.

The expectation is that this new standard will greatly accelerate the current lengthy and complex process of matching different providers' Carrier Ethernet services  [click on read more]

Vertical Systems Group:
Global Business Ethernet Leaderboard
Six providers lead the global interconnect market:  Colt, Orange Business, Verizon, AT&T, NTT and Reliance GlobalCom

BOSTON, MA, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE... Six service providers have secured a position on Vertical Systems Group's Global Business Ethernet Leaderboard, according to the company's latest research on international port installations as of mid-2009.  The leading providers and their respective home countries in rank order are Colt (U.K.), Orange Business Services (France), Verizon (U.S.), AT&T (U.S.), NTT Communications (Japan), and Reliance Globalcom (India).  Global share is based on Business Ethernet service ports installed at enterprise customer sites outside of the provider's home country. [ For more details click on "Read More" below ]