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 ...

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 ...