Cloud Computing Testing
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.
Arista Networks DCM-7508 384-port 10Gigabit Ethernet switch test
EANTC successfully tested the performance of Arista's new high-density DCM-7508 384-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch.
Carrier Ethernet Global Interconnect in Paris
EANTC and Light Reading created a service provider interoperability test and showcase program for 2010 to document the state of the art, provide detailed insight into current service offerings and to help accelerate the market.
In detail, 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 goal was to validate advanced Carrier Ethernet interconnects. Mainly, we focused on proving functionality, manageability and SLA support. Additionally, we concentrated on accelerating the wide deployment of interconnections by testing against a common standard. Participating vendors in the test program had the unique opportunity to prove readiness of Carrier Ethernet solutions for real, live interconnect environments.
The results were presented live on February 10-12, 2010 at Ethernet Wholesale Summit in Paris (France).
MPLS & Ethernet Interoperability Event 2010
13 participating vendors under EANTC's guidance performed a wide variety of interoperability tests conducted over a realistic test network during a two weeks hot staging in Berlin.
Our testing concentrated on the latest industry advances. In detail, developments in areas related to MPLS, such as Performance Monitoring, Multicast VPNs were given attention to.
This year, the testing also focused on Packet and Optical Transport Network Integration like GMPLS Integration, OTN Protection Switching and ASON. Additionally, we tested different Mobile Backhaul solutions such as NTPv4 and clock distribution methods, for example IEEE 1588:2008, and Synchronous Ethernet.
The results were presented live on February 10-12, 2010 at MPLS & Ethernet World Congress in Paris (France).
Alcatel-Lucent's 1850 Transport Service Switch
In January 2010, EANTC successfully tested the performance of the packet transport protection mechanisms as implemented in Alcatel-Lucent's 1850 Transport Service Switch (TSS) in Berlin. The testing goal was to show that the MPLS-TP packet transport solution provided by the Alcatel-Lucent 1850 TSS can offer service providers the peace of mind they require with respect to service continuity.
