RAD Demonstrates Next Generation Access Solutions at Europe’s First Multi-Vendor Carrier Ethernet Interoperability Event

15th September 2005: RAD Data Communications has successfully demonstrated three advanced Ethernet access applications at Europe's very first public Carrier Ethernet interoperability event, which is being held this week at the Carrier Ethernet World Congress in Berlin.

“As Ethernet services grow in sophistication to include different applications and hard SLA requirements, the greater will be the need for an intelligent access device to provide end-to-end service control,” states Yacov Cazes, Director of Product Management at RAD Data Communications. “At this year's Carrier Ethernet World Congress, therefore, RAD demonstrated how Ethernet access can provide VoIP, video and data, each defined with a different traffic prioritisation allowing for end-to-end SLA guarantees,” Cazes explains. “These services were also provided across different access technologies such as fiber Ethernet and PDH/SDH while sharing the same VPN,” he continues. "We also demonstrated TDM emulation over Ethernet, showing that an Ethernet backbone can provide transport to legacy TDM services with voice quality as high as we have come to expect from TDM systems."

Six different RAD products are integrated into the interoperability demonstration: the ETX-102 and ETX-202 Ethernet Network Termination units (E-NTUs), the Egate-100 Ethernet-over-STM-1/OC-3 Gateway, the Gmux-2000 Central Office TDM-over-IP (TDMoIP) Gateway, the IPmux-14 TDMoIP Gateway, and the RICi-8E1/8T1 Intelligent Converter.

Twelve vendors, including RAD, are demonstrating interoperability and scalability of Carrier Ethernet implementations, including E-Line (point-to-point) and E-LAN (multipoint) business applications plus residential triple play applications including voice over IP and video broadcasting traffic supplied by CPE devices and emulators. The other participants are Actelis, Agilent Technologies, Alcatel, Cisco Systems, Ixia, Riverstone Networks, Shenick, Siemens, Spirent Communications, Stratex Networks, and T-Pack.

The event was organised by the European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC), supported by T-Systems, and sponsored by the Metro Ethernet Forum. The demonstration showcases the results of a private hot-stage event that occurred last week at EANTC realising residential and business Ethernet services over a protected, Quality-of-Service enabled, multi-vendor Carrier Ethernet network.

The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) is a global industry alliance comprised of approximately 70 organisations including telecommunications service providers, network equipment/software manufacturers, semiconductors vendors and testing organisations. The MEF’s mission is to accelerate the worldwide adoption of Carrier-class Ethernet networks and services. The MEF develops Carrier Ethernet technical specifications and implementation agreements to promote interoperability and deployment of Carrier Ethernet worldwide.

 

For more information about the Forum, including a complete listing of all current MEF members, please visit the MEF web site: www.MetroEthernetForum.org

The European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC) offers vendor-neutral network test facilities for manufacturers, service providers, and enterprise customers. Primary business areas include interoperability, conformance, and performance testing for Ethernet, IP, ATM, MPLS, and broadband voice-related network technologies and applications. EANTC provides network-related services including consulting and seminars for ATM, MPLS, and other networking technologies.

 

For more information about EANTC, see: www.eantc.com

T-Systems is one of Europe's leading providers of information and communications technology (ICT). Within the Deutsche Telekom Group, T-Systems is responsible for supporting the business customer segment, ranging from medium-sized and large companies all the way up to multinational corporations and public institutions. The company has 51,000 employees in over 20 countries worldwide and posted revenues of nearly 13 billion euro in 2004. The company optimizes processes and cuts costs for its customers, thus providing them additional flexibility for their core business. It does this by making targeted use of industry expertise and cutting-edge technology. T-Systems' services encompass all levels of the information and communications technology value chain, spanning from ICT infrastructure and ICT solutions, up to, and including, business process management.

 

For more information about the company and its services, see:

www.t-systems.com