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Published by: New Paradigm Resources Group
Published: Feb. 1, 2007 - 538 Pages
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Executive Summary
Chapter 2: Metro Ethernet Market Drivers
Chapter 3: The State of the Metro Ethernet Industry
Chapter 4: Carrier Coverage
AboveNet, Inc.
Alpheus Communications
American Fiber Systems
AT&T Inc.
BellSouth Corporation
Broadview Networks
Broadwing Communications
CenturyTel, Inc.
Charter Communications
Cincinnati Bell
Cogent Communications Group, Inc.
Cox Communications, Inc.
Embarq Corporation
Expedient Communications
General Communication, Inc. (GCI)
Globix Corporation
IP Networks
Level 3 Communications, Inc.
Met-Net Communications
One Communications
Optimum Lightpath, Inc.
PPL Telcom
Qwest Communications
Time Warner Cable, Inc.
Time Warner Telecom
Verizon/Verizon Business
Windstream Communications
XO Communications
Yipes Enterprise Services, Inc.
Chapter 5: Carrier Watch List
American Telesis
Arialink Broadband
Citizens Communications (Frontier Communications Solutions)
Comcast Corporation
CT Communications, Inc.
Electric Lightwave
FiberNet Telecom Group, Inc.
FPL Fibernet, LLC
Keyspan Corporation
Masergy
McLeodUSA, Inc.
Neopolitan Networks, Inc.
Nuvox Communications
Open Access, Inc.
Peak 10, Inc.
RCN Corporation
Savvis
Southern Light
Tidewater Telecom
US LEC
Vastnet Corporation
Verio/NTT
Veroxity Technology Partners
Virtela Communications
Chapter 6: Carriers: Where Are They Now?
Cambrian Networks
GiantLoop Networks
Intellispace
Looking Glass Networks
Metromedia Fiber Network
Sigma Networks
Sphera Optical Networks
Tellaire Corporation
Telseon, Inc.
TeraBeam
Chapter 7: Vendor Coverage
Actelis
ADTRAN
ADVA
Aethera Networks
Aktino
Altera
ANDA Networks
Applied Micro Circuits Corporation
Atrica
Axerra Networks
Ciena
Clear Mesh Networks
Dune Networks
EXFO
Foundry Networks
Gridpoint Systems
Hateras Networks
Narad Networks
NTT Advanced Technology
OpVista
Overture
RAD Data Communications
Spirent Communications
Stratex Networks
Strix Systems
Sunrise Telecom
Teknovus
Telco Systems
Telcordia
Tellabs
TPack
TranSwitch
Turin Networks
WorldWide Packets
Xelerated
Zarlink
Chapter 8: Vendor List
Chapter 9: Glossary of Terms
AbstractThe concept of extending the Ethernet standard (IEEE 802.3) for frame-based computer
networking to the metro area has been around for decades. Service providers first began
seriously exploring Ethernet as a last-mile, Metro Area Network (MAN) service in the
1990s, with the first installations coming mid-decade. By 2000, new providers had
emerged with revolutionary business models based on “Metro Ethernet” technology.
Now, market conditions and provider innovations are coming together, and the market is
finally starting to mature. Based on extensive research of the service providers, vendors,
and end-users that make up the current Metro Ethernet market, we find that the market
should continue its fast growth over the next several years, as it begins to supplant TDM
as the preferred data transport platform, bit-by-bit.
As it has matured, with Ethernet now extending beyond the metro area and, indeed,
nationally, the term “Metro Ethernet” no longer conveys the entire story. Many providers
choose to characterize their services as “Carrier Ethernet”—in other words, “carriergrade
Ethernet”—to illustrate that they reach not only to the metro area, but also to the
wide area with inter-city Ethernet transport.
The evolution of Metro Ethernet for access and transport can be gleaned just by looking
at the service providers now competing in the segment. When we last examined the
industry, in our GigE/MAN Report in 2001, the provider universe included fiber layers
and about a dozen competitive providers, mostly companies whose business models were
built solely on Gigabit Ethernet service.
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