Carrier Ethernet Industry Voices

Congratulations to the winners of the 2010 MEF Carrier Ethernet Service Provider Awards for North America.  These award recognize excellence and leadership in the development, marketing and delivery of Carrier Ethernet Services.   Click "Read More" for the details.

Broadband service provider rankings from TeleGeography's GlobalComms Database show only small changes in rankings of the ten largest broadband service providers over the past twelve months. However, they also reveal a growing chasm between the two largest broadband operators and the remaining providers.

Collectively, the ten largest broadband service providers gained 23.3 million subscribers in the twelve months from Q1 2009 to Q1 2010, ending March 2010 with 191 million total subscribers-39% of the world's 492 million broadband customers. KT of South Korea, the world's tenth largest broadband ISP, is the only new member of the top ten ranking, having displaced Telecom Italia, which is now the 11th largest broadband ISP globally.

AT&T expanded global reach for its Ethernet portfolio with the availability of a virtual private local area network service (VPLS) across Europe and Asia Pacific this year.  

The service, called OPT-E-WAN(SM), enables businesses to link multiple locations from anywhere.  The service offers the ease and efficiency of a flat Ethernet wide area network that can be extended globally. The service is now available in a total of 20 countries - United States, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden and United Kingdom, in Europe; and Hong Kong, Australia, Singapore and Japan in Asia Pacific. As announced previously, AT&T plans to have the service available in 31 countries by the end of the year.

It would be interesting to know where all the other carrier ethernet service providers stand.