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NewsGlobe: Interviews
Qwest’s Ethernet evolution
Sets focus on expanding network availability and service portfolio
by Sean Buckley
With a customer base that includes a diversity of traditional enterprises, schools, government and retail customers, Qwest Communications continues to see a growing demand for Ethernet services.
In the following Audiocast, Sean Buckley, Executive Editor of Telecommunications, talks with Tom Wilson, Director of Product Management for Ethernet Services about how Qwest is taking the lessons it has learned in the field to expand the availability of its service offerings to meet its customer’s domestic and international needs.
In this Audiocast, Wilson answers the following questions:
•Since beginning its days in 1973 as a protocol for the LAN,
Ethernet has made a strident move into the carrier space as a trusted
service for enterprises. What’s your take on the evolution of Ethernet as
a carrier service?
•Qwest serves a lot of large and small enterprise customers.
With that, are you seeing more customers wanting to make the shift from
legacy services to Ethernet, and what are the drivers?
•No matter how much network a service provider has, the
fact is they don’t have network everywhere, so they have to work with
partners to ensure they can give their Multinational Corporations (MNC)
customer a seamless connection to their locations. How do you see the
standardization of Network-to-Network Interconnection (NNI) playing out
and what are the current challenges for operators in expanding their
footprint via partners?
•When service providers began rolling out Ethernet, the initial
drive was going over fiber in dense cities; however, there are areas where
fiber is scarce and the options to get to Ethernet are limited. Do you
believe that there’s an opportunity to fill in the speed gap by offering
sub 10 Mbps services over other facilities such as bonded T1 and copper?
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