Breaking the bandwidth bottleneck with Ethernet

The promise of abundant bandwidth has been held in check by primitive access technology - the copper lines still used by most businesses for WAN connectivity. San Francisco-based regional area network service provider Yipes was created to break this bandwidth bottleneck, using all-optical networks d...

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Published inTelecommunications Vol. 35; no. 1; p. 46
Main Authors Sistanizadeh, Kamran, Halabi, Sam
Format Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Dedham Horizon House Publications, Inc 01.01.2001
EditionAmericas edition
Subjects
Architecture
Bandwidths
Customer services
Ethernet
Flexibility
Infrastructure
Internet access
Internet service providers
Local area networks
Regions
Routers
Software
SONET
Traffic congestion
United States > US
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Summary:The promise of abundant bandwidth has been held in check by primitive access technology - the copper lines still used by most businesses for WAN connectivity. San Francisco-based regional area network service provider Yipes was created to break this bandwidth bottleneck, using all-optical networks delivered to the customer premises as well as Gigabit Ethernet, rather than traditional ATM and SONET, for the highest performance at the lowest cost. Yipes' Ethernet-based architecture, which has no protocol conversions from the originating LAN to the destination LAN, offers lower latency, fewer points of failure, a simple interface and much lower costs than existing SONET/SDH networks.
ISSN:1534-956X