(Source: Business Wire)
EANTC AG (European Advanced Networking Test Center) announced today that
the company is joined by 24 vendors to showcase the results of the
latest interoperability test at the Carrier Ethernet World Congress
2009. From September 22nd to 24th, the showcase
network with more than 110 devices will be presented live. It provides a
proof-of-concept study for network operators investigating the latest
generation of Carrier Ethernet solutions.
During the two-week hot staging in the beginning of September, 60
engineers from the participating vendors and EANTC tested the network.
The results were reassuring, showing that vendors have significantly
invested in product and interoperability in recent years. Now in its
fifth year, the Carrier Ethernet World Congress (CEWC) is firmly
established as the world's foremost public event to validate the
interoperability of product innovations in the field of Carrier
Ethernet, actually producing unbiased, verified hands-on results. This
year, the showcase focused on three top issues: Mobile Backhaul, Managed
Ethernet Services, and Global Interconnect.
The tests showed that Ethernet technology has successfully begun to
extend to such areas as ENNI and LTE backhaul as well as the wireless
media, while integrating deployments such as advanced end-to-end,
multi-vendor fault management. At the same time, the technology has
further matured, for example with regards to IEEE1588:2008 packet-based
clock synchronization and Synchronous Ethernet interoperability. Service
provider transport technologies for Carrier Ethernet services, including
MPLS, PBB-TE and pre-standard MPLS-TP, were also successfully tested.
Ethernet OAM tests were included to cover an extensive set of tests for
management solutions for both Link and Service OAM, primarily resulting
in configurational issues to be settled. "Global Interconnect", the
latest MEF project, is a topic that is just around the corner but
already high on the industry's agenda. The future belongs to scalable
and resilient interconnects, successfully tested this time with MPLS and
Ethernet.
Carsten Rossenhövel, Managing Director of EANTC AG, sums up the
importance of the tests: "As Carrier Ethernet technology matures, new
challenges arise resulting from the need to integrate new markets and
fields. We are very pleased to see that the vendors have fully used the
opportunity that the showcase offers to address these issues and
essentially move the technology ahead."
The vendors participating in the interoperability test event included:
Agilent Technologies Albis Technologies Alcatel-Lucent
Calnex Solutions Ceragon Networks Ciena
Cisco ECI Telecom Ericsson
Ethos Networks Harris Stratex Networks Huawei Technologies
Ixia JDSU MRV Communications
NEC Corporation Nokia Siemens Networks RAD Data Communications
SIAE Microelettronica Siklu Spirent Communications
Symmetricom Tejas Networks Telco Systems, a BATM Company
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Further information describing the testing procedures and the results in
detail can be found in the extensive 20-page white paper available for
download from
http://www.eantc.com/cewc2009.
About EANTC
The European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC) offers
vendor-neutral consultancy and test facilities for network equipment
manufacturers, service providers and enterprise customers. Primary
business areas include interoperability, conformance, and performance
testing for Carrier Ethernet, IP/MPLS, and Triple Play technologies and
applications. For more information contact Carsten Rossenhoevel,
Managing Director, at +49.30.3180595-0 or via e-mail at cross@eantc.com.
http://www.eantc.com
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