Corporate demand for Ethernet services is rising, an undeniable force as corporate
traffic continues to grow unabated, still doubling in many carrier networks each year.
Corporations are finding and exceeding the technology capacity limits of legacy frame
relay, ATM, and private line networks. As these barriers are exceeded, corporations
look for technology solutions with greater headroom that provide more bandwidth at a
smaller price per bit, and the natural answer is Ethernet.
Corporate demand was satisfied early (circa 2000) by Asia competitive providers, city
carriers in Europe, and alternative Ethernet LECs (ELECs) in North America, and slowly
acknowledged by the embedded base of incumbents and PTTs. City Of London Telecom,
now known simply as COLT, began by serving the single city of London, and helped establish
the viable business model for city carriers elsewhere in Europe that established their
entry into their markets riding on the back of Ethernet services on Ethernet networks.
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In North America, YIPES was one of the earliest Ethernet focused pioneers, establishing
its beachhead first in a few major metros and growing to 20??“30 markets fairly quickly.
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