Dear All! My name is Enrico Riedel, and I'm a Graduate Student in Management Information Systems at the University at Buffalo. Currently, I'm working on my Master's Thesis, and researching the Metro Area Networks and Metro Ethernet Networks from a technical, economical, and emerging practices point of view. The particular information I'm looking for is: ---------------------------------------------- * Information about major technical architectures --> trends in this area * Service bundles * Pricing Mechanisms and Pricing Information * For ISPs - Options that are offered to them, that they can use to provide services to their customers Does anyone have information about the above topics? If you can help me, please send me an e-mail to eriedel@buffalo.edu. I'm very thankful for any information I can get! Sincerely, Enrico Riedel