ATM and Frame Relay are supported at the edge as aggregation technologies. The testbed is currently operational with Cisco 12000 GSRs at the BT Tower in central London and at Martlesham Heath, BT's laboratories in Ipswich. The event will feature presentations on legal issues concerning local loop infrastructure in Europe, case studies on the metropolitan dark fiber networks of Stockholm, Cologne, Toulousse and Nancy, the rise of new services on metropolitan networks, and the response of the incumbent carriers. City Carriers 99 is organized by UpperSide, publishers of the Local Loop Report and ATM Perspectives newsletters. The event is organized by Vision in Business.
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