RAD Participates in EANTC Interoperability Event at MPLS & Ethernet World Congress 2009

February 12, 2009 – RAD Data Communications is one of 15 leading vendors participating in the Interoperability Showcase organized by EANTC AG (European Advanced Networking Test Center) at the MPLS & Ethernet World Congress, now being held in Paris.

The showcase provides network operators with an in-depth view into latest advances in MPLS and Ethernet based solutions. In advance of the Interoperability Showcase, the 75 devices that are being highlighted were tested during a two-week long hot staging event at EANTC's lab in Berlin.

Among these 75 are eight solutions from RAD's mobile backhaul and Carrier Ethernet portfolio that successfully participated in the interoperability testing for structure-agnostic TDM circuit emulation according to the MEF implementation agreement for the emulation of PDH circuits over Metro Ethernet networks (MEF8), structure-agnostic TDM pseudowire over MPLS according to RFC 4553, dynamically signaled ATM pseudowires over MPLS, IEEE 1588-2008 version 2 Precision Time Protocol (PTP) for precise synchronization between a clock master and clock slave devices, Ethernet performance monitoring of delay and delay variation measurements defined in the ITU-T recommendation Y.1731, and E-TREE service based on MPLS. A 16-page white paper with detailed test results is available for download at http://www.eantc.com/mplsewc2009

"RAD views vendor interoperability a key factor in the widespread deployment of Carrier Ethernet services worldwide," stated Amir Karo, Vice President of Marketing at RAD Data Communications. "For that reason, we committed to ensuring that our entire Ethernet Access portfolio is tested under EANTC's rigorous standards, whether the transport technology is copper or fiber."

"The level of innovation even at our seventh interoperability event is reassuring. In some areas, we see steady improvements – like in inter-carrier interconnectivity and OAM – sometimes big steps as in new IETF-defined transport protocols and mobile backhaul," said Carsten Rossenhoevel, Managing Director at EANTC. "In an increasingly advanced and complex technology area, service providers expect a high level of multi-vendor interoperability. A lot of experience is gained in the realistic end-to-end network scenarios constructed during our interoperability tests."

The European Advanced Networking Test Center 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

 

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