RAD's Bi-Monthly Newsletter  | Vol. X, No. 2 | March/April 2008  |  www.rad.com

2008 seems to be the year in which Ethernet will graduate from a transport technology to a widely-accepted, carrier-grade service suite. This is one of the market trends observed by RAD’s Senior Product Line Manager for Ethernet Access Solutions, Ron Agam, at Light Reading’s Ethernet Expo: Europe conference, which was held from April 14-16 in London. We discussed with him the effects this development is likely to have on the telecom market   Read More

New Product

RAD Introduces G.SHDSL.bis Solution with the Market's Most Comprehensive Variety of Interfaces

RAD Data Communications has released its new ASMi-54 G.SHDSL.bis modem, which provides up to 22.8 Mbps of bandwidth using bonded copper pairs. Read more

Technology Trend

The Challenges of Ethernet Access

Next generation packet switched networks, and Ethernet in particular, are increasingly gaining traction in the WAN due to intrinsic advantages, such as network simplicity, high bandwidth capacity, scalable and flexible service provisioning, and most-importantly significant savings in capital investments for equipment and service deployments. Ethernet is also a technology that enterprises are already familiar with for internal LANs and should have no trouble adopting for network services. That said, upgrading Ethernet WAN services from “best-effort” to Carrier Ethernet is not challenge-free, given the diversity of existing access and transport networks, the need to establish end-to-end service reliability and measurable performance guarantees, and the prerequisite of ensuring service continuity for legacy applications over Ethernet backhaul.
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