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"The interoperability demo shows the potential to help drive down the costs of 100GigE deployments — still a bleeding-edge technology — by ensuring routers, switches and optical transport gear from different vendors can work together."

"Specifically, until 10 GbE is native on server motherboards and add-on adapters are not needed, the economics of using multiple GbE ports typically more than meet I/O requirements of the data center network."

"Not surprisingly, some service providers believe the hype and are now offering VPLS in environments where it could do much more harm than good."

"PBB-TE was first championed by Nortel Networks Ltd. (NYSE/Toronto: NT), which found a supporter in BT Group plc (NYSE: BT; London: BTA). But the technology lost favor with BT’s latest management last year, and Nortel, while still a proponent of PBB-TE, has dropped out of the carrier Ethernet market."