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 wide area network spans a large geographic area such as a city, state, or country. It can be private to connect parts of a business, or it can be public to connect smaller networks. The easiest way ...

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 ...

MANs (metropolitan area networks) have been around for some time. Companies such as Yipes took advantage of the fiber glut in major cities to offer intracity connections with throughputs of 1Gbps or ...

Last week the IEEE held a “call for interest” session on the topic of expanding Ethernet support on passive optical networks. There was much interest expressed, and attendees decided to form a study ...

NEW DELHI, India--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Constl, a subsidiary of Space World Group, is deploying Ciena’s (NYSE: CIEN) optical technology to offer high speed Metro Area Network (MAN) and National Long ...