Berlin,  March 2008

The European Advanced Networking Test Center in collaboration with the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) and the IP/MPLS Forum organized the first multi-vendor mobile backhaul interoperability test and showcases.

Our latest interoperability test lab setup resembled the major service provider challenges  to implement an integrated, multi-service, next-generation core, aggregation and access network supporting high quality mobile backhaul services.

The following vendors participated in the event: Alcatel-Lucent, Ceragon, Ciena, Cisco, Ericsson, Harris Stratex, Huawei, Ixia, Lightstorm, MRV, Nokia Siemens Networks, Nortel, Spirent, RAD, Telco Systems.

The interoperability test network has been demonstrated to the public at the following dates:

• CTIA Wireless
  April 1-3, 2008, Las Vegas, USA

• MPLS & Ethernet World Congress
  February 06-08, 2008, Paris, France
• Mobile World Congress
  February 11-14, 2008, Barcelona, Spain