The goal of this event was two-fold. First, as in most interoperability test events, the test event sought to verify and improve the interworking of vendors' implementations, and second, it sought to prove that service providers may confidently deploy large-scale point-to-point and multipoint Ethernet services over MPLS networks knowing that the network will carry these services with the required levels of resilience and availability.

Today, this means more than just finding bugs and correcting them to advance standards compliance. In many cases, implementations rely on draft standards - vendors need to adapt their features to customers' requirements so quickly that they cannot wait until the final standard is adopted. Thus, the test served secondarily to verify clarity of the current standards.