Test Areas and Demos

EANTC, together with the participating vendors, developed the test plan focusing on current service provider demands while highlighting new developments both within the MPLS and Carrier Ethernet communities:

• MPLS Transport and Ethernet Services - Two distinct provider domains were configured in order to test inter-carrier MPLS for layer 3 IPv6 VPNs as well as Ethernet-based Virtual Private Wire Services (VPWS).
  MPLS was used in one aggregation area of the network while in another area we used pre-standard MPLS-TP and T-MPLS.  All three transport/aggregation areas tested their respective resiliency mechanisms.
  Two Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) defined services were configured across the complete network: E-Line and E-Tree.
  
  
• Mobile Backhaul - We tested Structure Aware and Structure Agnostic TDM Circuit Emulation Services (CES) between 17 different test pairs according to their relevant standards - MEF8, RFC 4553 and RFC 5086.
  TDM circuit emulation services are aimed to provide legacy support for 2G base stations' connections to their respective controllers over packet switched networks (PSN).
  To support third generation mobile radio backhaul, we tested ATM transport over MPLS between a total of 12 test partners.
  Another important aspect in mobile backhaul is clock synchronization.  Two Ethernet based clock synchronization solutions were tested for interoperability: Precision Time Protocol version 2 as specified by IEEE 1588-2008 and Synchronous Ethernet.
  
  
• Ethernet OAM Performance Monitoring - In response to increased demand from the observing service providers, further interoperability tests for ITU-T Y.1731 Ethernet Performance Monitoring were conducted.  Several vendors successfully tested their implementations for Frame Delay and Frame Delay Variation measurements.
  
  Please download the white paper for further details.