In The News
February 19, 2008
World Wide Packets furthers Ethernet's Ubiquity
Telecommunications Online –It’s safe to say that for World Wide Packets, Ethernet has been part of the company’s DNA since its inception in 1999 — a time when the protocol was really in its infancy as a carrier-grade service.
Since then, carrier Ethernet service has blossomed as a service offered by not only the largest service providers, but also by new entrants such as the utility operators building their own telecom service subsidiaries. In the following Audiocast, Executive Editor Sean Buckley talks to Kevin Daines, CTO of World Wide Packets about Ethernet’s universal power.
November 15, 2007
Cable360Net – The cable industry better fervently hope that they do things differently in Tennessee because what's going on in Clarksville, TN, could portend a bigger threat to the industry than the Hollywood writers' strike.
November 13, 2007
Forget the Last Train - Clarksville Rides the Light Now
Telecom Web –While most of the recent attention to municipal broadband has focused on Wi-Fi mesh because of the spectacular failures in that area - and we all know that bad news sells newspapers - the installation of government-owned fiber, usually all the way to the home (FTTH) or to other end users (FTTx) has continued unabated, if quietly, in many places.
November 12, 2007
Telecommunications Online – Clarksville, Tenn. labels itself a “broadband community” thanks to a 630-mile fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network that the Clarksville Department of Energy (CDE) built to monitor and control 55,000 residential and commercial electric meters in the 122,000-person community. That network, which uses World Wide Packets’ carrier Ethernet technology, is also the foundation of a triple play offering of IPTV, voice and high- speed data services the city will offer to every home.
November 8, 2007
The Gradual, Meandering Progress Toward Fiber
IT Business Edge – The variables controlling the deployment of wired telecommunications infrastructure to businesses and homes are cost, throughput and, ultimately, best guesses on demand. The candidates are fiber, coaxial cable and copper, which is putting up a good fight before being relegated to the dust bin of telecom history.
November 5, 2007
Tennessee city taps World Wide Packets for quad play
CED –The city of Clarksville, Tenn. announced today that it will be using a Carrier Ethernet offering from World Wide Packets to build a city-wide fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network for its residents.
The Clarksville Department of Electricity (CDE) will use World Wide Packets’ Carrier Ethernet product, called Lightning Edge, to connect the city’s residents and businesses to its electrical utility.
November 5, 2007
Clarksville, Tennessee to Go with World Wide Packets' Carrier Ethernet Solution
TMCnet – The City of Clarksville, Tennessee has chosen World Wide Packets’ (News - Alert) Carrier Ethernet solution in order to build a city-wide FTTH network for delivering residential, business and transport services, according to a World Wide Packets announcement. The company's LightningEdge Carrier Ethernet solution will be implemented by the Clarksville Dept. of Electricity to connect residents and businesses to its electrical utility. The resulting "Broadband Community" is expected to encourage economic growth and improve quality of life. The network will reduce Department of Electricity operating costs and allow the delivery of new, revenue generating quad-play (video, voice, data, and mobility) broadband services.
November 5, 2007
Tennessee utility bringing fiber to 55,000
Telephony Online – Next month, the electric utility in Clarksville, Tenn., hopes to launch the first broadband and video services over what could become one of the largest municipal fiber-to-the-home networks in the United States.
In May the Clarksville Department of Energy began construction of a fiber network to reach all of its electricity customers--about 50,000 residences and 5,000 businesses. The plan was to connect the fiber to existing electric meters, allowing the utility to read meters remotely rather than on foot, and provide triple-play services over the excess bandwidth.
November 5, 2007
Clarksville, TN hops about FTTH
LIghtwave – The Clarksville Department of Electricity (CDE), the utility chartered to provide electricity to the residents and businesses of Clarksville, TN (yes, that one), is building out a point-to-point active Ethernet network that will reach all of its approximately 55,000 customers. Originally designed to support remote meter reading, the network will also provide a platform for the delivery of voice, video, and data services.
September 27, 2007
Light Reading – World Wide Packets, a leading provider of Carrier Ethernet solutions, today announced that it is participating in the European Advanced Networking Test Center’s (EANTC AG) multivendor interoperability showcase at the Carrier Ethernet World Congress 2007 (CEWC). CEWC is the official conference of the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), and is being held in Geneva on Sept. 24-28. As a participant in the showcase, the company is demonstrating its ability to deliver both Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) and Provider Backbone Transport (PBT) transport technologies from a single Ethernet switch platform. In addition to the EANTC demonstration at CEWC, World Wide Packets is showcasing its Carrier Ethernet products and solutions, including its flagship, carrier-class LE-3300, in Stand #6.
September 24, 2007
EANTC – Today, EANTC AG (European Advanced Networking Test Center) and 24 leading vendors opened the largest and most diverse public Carrier Ethernet multi-vendor interoperability test ever staged. The live test with more than 65 devices is geared towards network operators providing Carrier Ethernet services. It is targeted at verifying the current interoperability status of a wide range of implementations as well as provisioning and fault management solutions.
August, 2007
PBT: Too soon to ask what’s next?
Lightwave –It seems somewhat premature to ask, “What’s next for PBT?” when Provider Backbone Transport (PBT) is only in the initial stages of investigation by carriers and operators. However, PBT is a technology that has the potential to change the telecommunications landscape—and, as such, it is at an important crossroads.
August 29, 2007
EANTC AND 24 VENDORS PREPARE FOR LARGEST EVER CARRIER ETHERNET INTEROPERABILITY TEST
EANTC –This week, EANTC AG (European Advanced Networking Test Center) will team up with 24 leading vendors to set up the largest and most diverse Carrier Ethernet multi-vendor interoperability demonstration ever staged.
More than 50 engineers from participating companies will evaluate Carrier Ethernet interoperability in detail for two weeks at EANTC's lab in Berlin, Germany. The test event is endorsed by the MEF (Metro Ethernet Forum) and covers the latest MEF specifications. It is geared towards service providers and is targeted at verifying the current interoperability status of a wide range of Carrier Ethernet implementations as well as provisioning and fault management solutions.
April 30, 2007
Iowa Health Taps World Wide Packets For Multi-State Medical Health Network
Lightwave – Iowa Health System (IHS), Iowa's first and largest integrated healthcare system, has deployed World Wide Packets' LightningEdge platform in the recently completed first phase of its privately owned fiber-optic medical health network. According to IHS, the health network is one of the largest in existence, connecting major medical facilities and data centers throughout Iowa, western Illinois, and eastern Nebraska.
February 8, 2007
Spokesman Review – Regional economic observers know which tech companies are on the top rungs of the industry ladder and which firms are clawing their way up.
On the top level, measured by revenue and market clout, are tech heavyweights such as Pullman-based Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories and Liberty Lake-based Itron Inc.
One level below sit solid businesses that have carved out a dominant market position, such as rugged laptop maker Itronix, now part of global giant General Dynamics.
February 8, 2007
Optical Networks Daily – World Wide Packets has announced the launch of the LightningEdge 3300 (LE-3300) service aggregation switch. Utilizing the LightningEdge Operating System (LE-OS), the LE-3300 aggregates and delivers Carrier Ethernet services in a single platform.
The LE-3300 is based on a service-oriented architecture designed to mitigate the
limitations of traditional Ethernet switch architectures. It offers Carrier Class attributes including Hierarchical Quality of Service (H-QoS), programmable distributed switching architecture and a redundant hardware design with service cards ranging from 10 Gigabit Ethernet to Gigabit Ethernet.
February 7, 2007
World Wide Packets mit modularem Carrier Ethernet Switch
LANline – Neues Terrain betritt der auf Carrier Ethernet spezialisierte US-Anbieter World Wide Packets (WWP) mit seinem Lightning Edge 3300 (LE-3300) Service Aggregation Switch: Das modulare Gerät - ein Novum für WWP - dient der Aggregation von bis zu 120 GbEAnschlüssen. Dazu bietet der 6 RU hohe LE-3300 alle üblichen Fiber-Varianten sowie Module für Dual-10GbE-Uplinks.
February 5, 2007
World Wide Packets Intros Aggregation Switch
Lightwave – World Wide Packets has extended its line of Carrier Ethernet hardware via the LightningEdge 3300 (LE-3300) Service Aggregation Switch. The 100-Gbit/sec platform is the first of a planned series of aggregation systems, according to company sources.
The company simultaneously unveiled version 5.0 of its Ethernet Services Manager element management system.
In a visit to Lightwave's offices this past Friday, World Wide Packets Executive Vice President Mike Nielsen and Senior Vice President/Global Sales and Marketing Chad Whalen described the 6U-high LE-3300 as "smallest fully redundant system" on the market for Carrier Ethernet aggregation. Purpose-built for Carrier Ethernet applications, the system provides aggregation of 24 to 96 Gigabit Ethernet streams to redundant 10- Gigabit Ethernet pipes. The platform offers redundancy on a per-line-card or multipleline- card basis and offers a fully programmable distributed switching architecture and a redundant hardware design with service cards ranging from 10 Gigabit Ethernet to Gigabit Ethernet.
February 5, 2007
Telecommunications – Increasing carrier demand for carrier class Ethernet technology with high levels of quality of service (QoS) has led World Wide Packets to increase both the capacity and redundancy of its aggregation switch for first and second tier aggregation points. The upgraded product, which runs on WWP’s LightningEdge operating system, can handle up to 100 gigabits of traffic on the switching backplane compared to current products which have an end point capability of 16 gigabits of aggregated capacity.
“Our footprint is from provider edge to customer edge,” said Dave Curry, president-CEO
of World Wide Packets. “As carrier Ethernet gains more traction, the aggregation
footprint and requirements for quality of service (increase) we’re delivering the next
product in that aggregation space.”
February 5, 2007
Telecommunications – If there’s anything to glean from the recent announcement that BT will deploy Siemens and Nortel Ethernet equipment in their 21CN network implementation besides being another win for Ethernet, it’s proof that carriers are seeing the value in the emerging PBB-TE (Provider Backbone Bridging—Traffic Engineering) for Ethernet transport.
As an emerging IEEE standard, PBB-TE which provides enhancements to Ethernet
known as PBT (Packet Backbone Transport), can bring control to data paths within a large carrier network, enabling QoS and the ability to set aside specific paths for specific traffic types.
February 5, 2007
Switch Muscles Up for 10-Gbit Ethernet Tasks
EETimes Online – World Wide Packets Inc., which pioneered carrier-based Ethernet for the enterprise, this week will launch a chassis-sized service aggregation switch. The LightningEdge 3300 is the company's first switch to support 10-Gbit/second Ethernet links, and the first to combine resiliency and redundancy features to allow true service aggregation for complex Metro Ethernet Forum functions such as Ethernet private line and private LAN.
The Spokane, Wash., company will simultaneously release version 5.0 of its elementmanager software. The Ethernet Services Manager now handles the three layers of service switching offered in WWP's hardware.
February 5, 2007
Telecommunications – The steady decline in service revenue from legacy ATM frame relay and leased lines is directly leading to renewed worldwide carrier investment in next-generation technologies like IP/MPLS Edge, metro Ethernet and broadband, according to a study released by Infonetics Research.
The study, “Service Provider Plans for IP/MPLS: North America, Europe and Asia
Pacific,” looks at what’s driving the carriers away from traditional moneymaking ventures and into broadband-based services and technologies, including carrier preferences for buying IP routers and multi service switches. Infonetics’ analysts interviewed 28 carries in the three regions for the study.
January 29, 2007
World Wide Packets Adds PRovider Backbone Transport (PBT) Support
Converge! – World Wide Packets is now supporting Provider Backbone Transport (PBT) through its LightningEdge 311v platform (LE-311v).
PBT is a means of Ethernet tunneling with MPLS interoperability.
World Wide Packets LE-311v, a Layer 2 VPN platform, also supports transparent LAN Services delivered over Ethernet or over MPLS. With the addition of PBT, the LE-311v will simplify the network and enable service providers to drive down the overall costs of deployment which allows for the generation of new revenue by offering optimal services at a fraction of the cost.
January 29, 2007
Light Reading Daily – World Wide Packets, a leading provider of Carrier
Ethernet solutions, today announced support for Provider Backbone Transport (PBT)
through its LightningEdge® 311v platform (LE-311v). Over the past year, PBT has
emerged as a leading component in the next phase of Carrier Ethernet delivery. World
Wide Packets has worked closely with its customers to integrate crucial PBT support into
its offerings and now enables the highest quality delivery of Carrier Ethernet service
available today.
January 29, 2007
World Wide Packets Annnounces PBT Support
Lightwave – World Wide Packets (search for World Wide Packets) has announced support for Provider Backbone Transport (PBT) through its LightningEdge 311v platform (LE-311v).
Over the past year, PBT has emerged as a leading component in the next phase of Carrier Ethernet delivery. World Wide Packets has worked closely with its customers to integrate PBT support into its offerings and now enables the highest quality delivery of Carrier Ethernet service available today, the company claims.
January 29, 2007
World Wide Packets Embraces PBT
xchange online – It looks like Nortel and its customer BT are no longer alone in embracing PBT, or provider backbone transport. World Wide Packets today announced that its LightningEdge 311v platform now supports PBT.
The LightningEdge is a Layer 2 VPN platform that also supports transparent LAN
services delivered over Ethernet or over MPLS, but World Wide Packets said that “with
the addition of PBT, the LE-311v will simplify the network and enable service providers
to drive down the overall costs of deployment which allows for the generation of new
revenue by offering optimal services at a fraction of the cost.”
January 22, 2007
Light Reading – Provider Backbone Transport (PBT), the disruptive new flavor of carrier Ethernet that is prompting major carriers to re-evaluate their transport infrastructure strategies, is gathering support in the vendor community, according to a new Light Reading Insider report.
Nortel Networks Ltd. has been the PBT flag-bearer, working closely with BT Group plc to evaluate the technology, which boasts familiar, Sonet/SDH-like provisioning and management for point-to-point connections. That makes it easier and cheaper to run than MPLS-based networks, say its supporters.
