Last evening, as you may remember me mentioning yesterday, we had a really enjoyable MEF award dinner last night. It was great to have a fabulous chat with our partners and customers. As it is to be expected of such things, it went on very late and the adrenalin kick didn’t quite subside till this morning when our forums reconvened. Read more...

Hello everyone. The countdown is finally over. David here on the first (private) day of the CEWC 2009 in Berlin, the largest event for the Ethernet networks and service industry. This year, the congress is all about bringing Value-Added Services to the Carrier Ethernet environment. Read more...

With the dramatic increase of video traffic, mobile devices, and Internet subscriber growth, carrier Ethernet transformation will push technologies and solutions in the dimensions of control, forwarding, data, and management planes. Juniper announced the Intelligent Services Edge (ISE) in 4Q08 with session border controller, dynamic application awareness, intrusion detection & prevention, and video quality monitoring - services that work in conjunction with subscriber awareness and business class MPLS VPNs on Juniper’s MX Series Ethernet Services platforms and M Series Multiservice Edge routers. Service providers not only benefit from the Ethernet capacity, density and cost delivered by the platforms, they also gain unmatched flexibility to enable any ISE service, any time, on any VPN, for any subscriber. Read more...