100 Gbit/s Ethernet Router Test: Alcatel-Lucent
The latest report of Light Reading and EANTC’s program on 100 Gigabit Ethernet enabled routers highlights the solution of Alcatel-Lucent.
The latest report of Light Reading and EANTC’s program on 100 Gigabit Ethernet enabled routers highlights the solution of Alcatel-Lucent.
Light Reading and EANTC have established a program to evaluate 100 Gigabit Ethernet enabled routers for forwarding performance, service scalability, and more. In the first report in the series, EANTC tests ZTE's solution.
Cisco commissioned EANTC to test their MPLS-TP (MPLS Transport Profile) solution. EANTC verified the functionality of new Operations, Administration and Management (OAM) features and measured out of service times during realistic link failure events. The test work included the Cisco 7604, 7606, ASR9006, ASR9010, and CPT600.
EANTC completed another independent Carrier Ethernet Global Interconnect test, conducted across live service provider production networks. The participating Service Providers interconnected their networks through Carrier Ethernet exchanges provided by Equinix.
This year's interoperability tests, showcased on the MPLS & Carrier Ethernet World Congress 2011, focused on interworking of IP/ MPLS and MPLS-TP, Ethernet Ring Protection (ERPS), and a variety of device roles for 1588 clock synchronization. EANTC has also successfully tested 100 Gigabit Ethernet.
EANTC in collaboration with ancotel and Light Reading successfully completed the third phase of the Carrier Ethernet Global Interconnect testing campaign.
EANTC was commissioned by BroadHop to evaluate the performance and scability of BroadHop's Quantum Network Suite mobile core policy server (PCRF) under real-world conditions.
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This year's test results confirm that the Carrier Ethernet implementations of the 24 participating vendors have progressed substantially. When it comes to Ethernet OAM performance monitoring, packet-based clock synchronization, protection and Ethernet microwave, we have witnessed a wide range of interoperable, robust implementations.
The second article focusing on Cisco's Mobile Core, data center and business services has been published on lightreading.com. In this report we cover Cisco's newly minted Mobile Core device - the ASR5000, as well as various forward thinking LTE demonstrations, business oriented Firewall and NAT services and SBC functionality in Cisco's ASR1006 router.
EANTC, commissioned by Light Reading, staged an independent, public test of Cisco’s complete mobile infrastructure – including the mobile backhaul (from cell sites to the mobile service nodes), the network core (connections among service functions and to the Internet), and the mobile core with large-scale packet and voice gateways. The first of two articles focuses 12 test areas including LTE-ready clock synchronization and 100 Gigabit Ethernet.
EANTC, partnered with European telehouse ancotel, finished the second phase in a new test program for service providers. The program allows participating network operators to validate and showcase end-to-end Carrier Ethernet services across multiple carriers using External Network-Network Interfaces (ENNI) as specified by the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF). In this latest phase, EANTC validated MEF ENNI and Class of Service (CoS) mapping across a test setup which included 8 participating operators and 7 European cities from London all the way to Sevastopol. The results of this phase have been presented at Light Reading's Ethernet Europe conference in London on April 12 and 13.
EANTC and Spirent have recently collaborated in an effort to define data center and cloud computing test methodologies. A series of tests were conducted from Spirent's lab in Calabasas, CA and demonstrated at INTEROP Las Vegas, April 2010. Take a look at the resulting white paper to read more about public and private cloud computing and how to test each.
EANTC successfully tested the performance of Arista's new high-density DCM-7508 384-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch.
EANTC effectively verified the performance of the packet transport protection mechanisms of Alcatel-Lucent's 1850 Transport Service Switch (TSS). In January 2010, the tests were performed at EANTC's lab in Berlin.
In January 2010, EANTC staged a centralized Global Interconnect test infrastructure at ancotel‘s carrier hotel in Frankfurt/Main to support test execution and public presentation of the results. The test was open to service provider participants only. The test results were highlighted at the Ethernet Wholesale Summit in Paris, February 10-12, 2010 and included live public demonstrations conducted through remote test management and HD videoconferencing to ancotel‘s facility in Frankfurt.
During a two week hot staging in January 2010, engineers from the 13 participating vendors came to EANTC's lab in Berlin to perform a wide variety of interoperability tests, conducted over a realistic test network. In the center of attention were the latest developments in MPLS and Ethernet transport and services. The results of EANTC's public multi-vendor interoperability test were presented live in a Showcase at the MPLS & Ethernet World Congress in Paris February 10-12, 2010.
EANTC successfully tested the performance, functionality and capabilities of the new SITLine ETH VLAN encryption device. The test results confirmed that the device is able to encrypt Ethernet traffic without impacting the network performance.
Arista Networks entrusted EANTC recently with testing the performance of Arista’s 7148SX 48-port, 10 GbE switch. The goal of the test was to verify the performance characteristics such as the non-blocking throughput capacity and the low latency of switch.
EANTC was commissioned by Juniper Networks to validate the performance, services scale, and power efficiency of the new 16-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet (16x10GbE) MPC line card and MX80 3D router.
On behalf of the MEF (Metro Ethernet Forum) EANTC gave a presentation at the ITSF conference Time & Synchronisation in Telecoms in Rome, Italy.
EANTC recently tested the Advanced RTP Monitoring Solution developed by VOIPFUTURE. The test was set up to verify the vendor’s claim that the Smart RTP Monitoring Probe should be able to analyze VoIP streams in real-time at gigabit Ethernet full line rate, thereby detecting packet loss and IP packet delay variation.
For the fifth year in a row, EANTC, together with the world’s leading vendors of Carrier Ethernet technology, set up an interoperability showcase to test and demonstrate advances with regard to the interoperability of central product innovations in this field.
Alcatel-Lucent and EANTC recently performed a design verification test for a major European carrier to emulate performance and operability of the vendor's 7750 SR-7 and 7740 ESS-7 devices under real-life conditions. This latest test was set up to verify the use for aggregation Ethernet Backhauling of Layer 3 VPN services over layer 2 services, both of them MPLS-based.
We collected our experiences with IP Video testing into IP Video Test Methodologies document available here for your reading pleasures.
EANTC tested Cisco Systems', Ipoque's and Procera Networks' filtering solutions. All test results are published on the InternetEvolution website.
EANTC tested the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) filtering solutions of Cisco Systems, Ipoque and Procera Networks. The article gives you a brief overview of all results.
In June, we published the results of our IPTV megatest, which was based on Cisco Systems’ IP Video solution. This extraordinarily large test had been commissioned and published by Light Reading.You can now download a highly detailed and in depth webinar pointing at the test methodologies and results. This is hosted by Carsten Rossenhoel (Managing Director of EANTC) and Jason Sauviac (Marketing Manager at Cisco) and is available at www.lightreading.com. (you will need to register for free)
Light Reading, a TechWeb online magazine commissioned EANTC to independently test Cisco Systems' video infrastructure called medianet. We challenged Cisco by asking: How much of the medianets vision is already available for an independent test today? The link above shows a LRTV interview with Carsten Rossenhoevel, Managing Director at EANTC. Cisco was ready for our test of all aspects of the medianets infrastructure. It was an extraordinary effort: fifteen Cisco business units were involved, preparations took six months, and uncounted Cisco systems participated. The results are published in three different articles on Light Reading’s website.
FTTx Summit in Munich, Germany Discussing the need for FTTx interoperability testing and possible test scenarios.
Transport Networks for Mobile Operators in Amsterdam, Netherlands Presentation about interoperability test results of Carrier Ethernet for Mobile Backhaul networks, the migration from Mobile Backhaul to MPLS and Carrier Ethernet, opportunities and challenges.
Packet Transport Networks in Vienna, Austria Shared results of EANTC's latest interop tests concerning clock synchronization, Ethernet OAM Performance Monitoring, MPLS inter-carrier connectivity, and early MPLS-TP draft specifications.
In January 2009, engineers from the 15 participating vendors came to EANTC's lab in Berlin to perform a series of tests focusing on the latest in MPLS and Ethernet based packet transport. The results of EANTC's public multi-vendor interoperability test were showcased at the MPLS & Ethernet World Congress in Paris February 11-13, 2009.
MPLS and Ethernet World Congress in Paris, France Investigation of the Mobile Backhaul migration to MPLS and Carrier Ethernet including a projection of future network developments. State of the art and challenges of clock synchronization over Carrier Ethernet.
Carrier Ethernet World APAC in Singapore Testing goals, growth areas and result highlights including an outlook to next year’s interoperability testing plans.
For the first time in the APAC-region, EANTC and 10 leading vendors are showcasing the results of the latest interoperability test focused on "The Future of Carrier Ethernet Services". The network built with all components of a modern end-to-end Carrier Ethernet solution is demonstrated live at the Carrier Ethernet World APAC taking place in Concorde Hotel Singapore November 12-14, 2008.
Broadband World Forum Europe in Brussels, Belgium From P2P traffic to DPI detection solutions. EANTC’s P2P filter testing program and results of the InternetEvolution test.
Carrier Ethernet World Congress in Berlin, Germany Results highlights of interoperability tests focusing on Carrier Ethernet Services
EANTC and 28 leading international vendors are staging the largest and most advanced public Carrier Ethernet multi-vendor interoperability showcase ever with over one hundred devices at Carrier Ethernet World Congress September 22-26, 2008 in Berlin, Germany.
FTTx Summit & Home Networking Forum in Berlin, Germany FTTx deployment in metro/backhaul networks; evolution from ATM to Ethernet backhaul; exploiting cost effective network optimization tools
Both tested devices, the Ellacoya E30 and Ipoque PRX-5G, showed excellent performance and very good P2P detection and regulation capabilities.
First Media commissioned EANTC to conduct an independent calibration test of First Media's video monitoring solution, certifying that the m-Flow system reports appropriate QoS and QoE parameters of live video streams.
The cryptology specialist Rohde & Schwarz SIT commissioned EANTC to conduct performance and interoperability tests for their new developed crypto device SITLine ETH.
IIR's Packet Transport Networks in Berlin, Germany Examining progress in interoperability between MPLS, T-MPLS and PBB-TE/PBT network clouds.
Internet Evolution, a TechWeb (former CMP) online magazine and SNEP (Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique, the organization that represents the interests of the French music industry) commissioned EANTC to independently test the performance and functionality of P2P filters. The test focused large-scale carrier grade systems designed to filter vast amounts of P2P Internet traffic in real time. We developed new advanced test methodology to conduct realistic application layer tests. We invited 28 vendors; five participated but only two agreed to publication of their results: Arbor/Ellacoya and ipoque. Both the Ellacoya E30 and Ipoque PRX-5G devices showed excellent performance and very good P2P detection and regulation capabilities.
IP Central Forum at CeBIT 2008 in Hanover, Germany Defining, standardising and certifying Carrier Ethernet
EANTC focused its eleventh interoperability test event on mobile backhaul. We combined more than 85 devices from fifteen vendors to a multi-vendor network and tested mobile applications and end-to-end business customer services. In this German language article, EANTC presents a summary of the test goals, test results and provides the reader with an overview of the state of the technology.
EANTC in collaboration with the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) and the IP/MPLS Forum organized the first multi-vendor mobile backhaul interoperability test and showcases During our two weeks hot-staging event in our lab in Berlin fifteen vendors have prepared and tested mobile applications and end-to-end business customer services for the showcase across a multi-vendor network comprising more than 85 devices. The results were publicly showcased at the MPLS and Ethernet World Congress in Paris, 5-8 February, 2008, Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, 11-14 February, 2008, and the CTIA Wireless Show in Las Vegas, 1-3 April, 2008.
The German language magazine "Funkschau" presents EANTC's Carrier Ethernet World Congress 2007 interoperability event results. In a two page summary, the article describes the interoperability network, the technical challenges, and provides a quick overview of the results.
Seven of the world's largest telecommunications companies have united under the banner of the Optical Internetworking Forum to showcase multi-vendor interoperability in a multi-carrier environment during the OIFs Worldwide Interoperability Demonstration - On-Demand Ethernet Services. OIF member companies AT&T, China Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom Group, KDDI, Telecom Italia and Verizon hosted participating network equipment vendors during the interoperability testing from June to August 2007. EANTC's key role was to manage and provide technical assistance during the multi-site interoperability testing and demonstration. OIF participating members tested end-to-end provisioning of dynamically switched Ethernet services over multiple, control-plane enabled intelligent optical core networks through the use of OIF implementation agreements UNI 2.0 and E-NNI.
EANTC together with Light Reading and Spirent Communications released the most comprehensive test report for a complete end-to-end IPTV and Triple Play solution. The rigorous independent test verified Cisco Systems' IPTV solution based on the CRS-1 and the 7600 router product family in addition to Cisco's Video Quality Experience (VQE) solution. EANTC test engineers authored the test plan and executed an intense two weeks, day and night, test engagement that verified Cisco's readiness to deliver IPTV solutions in such areas as QoS, resiliency, quality of experience, performance and scalability.
European Broadcasting Union ( EBU) met for a conference in Geneva/ Switzerland. Which reqirements have to be be implemented for video traffic with QoS? EANTC gave a summary of its latest IPTV test and EANTC's recent experiences in video testing.
Conference of the German Network User Group (BGNW) took place in Chemnitz, Germany. Carrier Ethernet is one of the hottest topics for service providers and carriers today. They are looking for solutions in triple play and business layer 2 services, which are scalable and reduce the costs of the network.
For the second time, EANTC organized the interoperability test event for the Carrier Ethernet World Congress 2006 in Madrid, Spain. A total of 16 leading vendors attended in EANTC's test lab in Berlin, Germany for what has been the largest Carrier Ethernet interoperability event to date.
The cryptology specialist Rohde & Schwarz SIT, a subsidiary of Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG, commissioned EANTC to conduct performance and interoperability tests for their new developed crypto device SITLine ATM.
This German language article in the Funkschau magazine discusses the network design, test areas and provides a nice summary of the results of the event.
The German magazine Funkschau published a monster-size test conducted by EANTC comparing Cisco Systems' Catalyst 6500 with Force10 Networks' TeraScale E-Series.
The German language magazine Funkschau described the MPLSWC interoperability test event organized by EANTC. The report focuses on "Converged Network Services Using MPLS" and highlights such topics as MPLS Fast Reroute, Pseudowires, VPLS and H-VPLS test results.
State of the art of service provider Ethernet network testing from the point of view of an independent test lab. Presentation at the International Carrier Ethernet Forum Conference in Frankfurt.
The German network magazine 'Funkschau' published EANTC's functionality and feature test of Cisco IOS Software Modularity for the Catalyst 6500 Series switches.
EANTC tested the functionality and verified the new features of Cisco IOS Software Modularity for the Catalyst 6500 Series switches.
An article of the German network magazine 'Funkschau' about the first public test of Cisco's XR 12000 Service Separation Architecture.
EANTC extensively tested the Cisco XR 12000 for scalability, robustness and functionality of the Service Separation Architecture. The tests showed the expected performance values, confirming Cisco's claims for logical router performance and resource independence.
The German network magazine 'Funkschau' published EANTC's performance, functionality and usability tests of the new firewall and content switching module from Cisco Catalyst 6500.
EANTC verified Cisco's Catalyst 6500 content switching and firewall performance, using Ixia's IxLoad application.
Interoperability Tests at the MPLS World Congress 2005 in Paris, the most important MPLS event in Europe.
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