"Carrier Ethernet Services - The Future"

The next Carrier Ethernet interoperability test event is already well under way. The hot staging event currently takes place at EANTC lab in Berlin until end of August. EANTC and 28 participating vendors are constructing a test network with more than 100 devices - resembling a state of the art Carrier Ethernet service provider network.

Hundreds of multi-vendor interoperability tests are being conducted to highlight the future of Carrier Ethernet networks and end-to-end services.  Resiliency mechanisms as well as provisioning, mobile backhaul and triple play services will be verified.

The following vendors are participating in the event: Actelis Networks, ADVA Optical Networking, Alcatel-Lucent, Calnex Solutions, Cambridge Broadband Networks, Ceragon Networks, Ciena, Cisco Systems, ECI Telecom, Ericsson, Foundry Networks, Harris Stratex Networks, Huawei Technologies, InfoVista, Ixia, Juniper Networks, NEC Corporation, Nokia Siemens Networks, Nortel Networks, RAD Data Communications, Redback Networks - an Ericsson Company, ROHDE & SCHWARZ SIT, SIAE MICROELETTRONICA, Spirent Communications, Symmetricom, Tejas Networks, Telco Systems - a BATM Company, and Tellabs.