EANTC Independently Verifies Interoperability of Latest MPLS and IPv6 Innovations by 13 Vendors
Live Multi-Vendor Showcase Presented At MPLS & ETHERNET WORLD CONGRESS 2012 This Week
The test event focused on the latest innovations in IPv6 Migration, Mobile Backhaul Transport and Synchronization, MPLS-TP Fault Management, and Performance Monitoring.
PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- EANTC AG (European Advanced Networking Test Center) announced today that 13 vendors will showcase the results of the latest EANTC interoperability event live at the MPLS & Ethernet World Congress 2012 this week. The test of more than 40 devices serves as a proof-of-concept study for network operators investigating the latest solutions in Carrier Ethernet, MPLS, and MPLS-TP packet transport technology specifically focusing IPv6 migration.
Calnex Solutions, Cisco Systems, Ericsson, Extreme Networks, Hitachi, Huawei Technologies, Ixia, Metaswitch Networks, Spirent Communications, Symmetricom, Telco Systems, VeEX Inc., and ZTE Corporation participated in the test.
During a two-week hot staging event in January, more than thirty engineers from the participating vendors conducted extensive tests at EANTC’s lab in Berlin, Germany. The results showed that the participating vendors have significantly invested in product innovation and quality assurance.
For the first time, IPv6 migration scenarios were included in the test. In light of the increasing importance of IPv6 implementations and the urging need for migration strategies, EANTC focused the IPv6 tests on two major aspects – multi-vendor IPv6 control protocol implementations and IPv6 migration solutions, including IPv6 Rapid Deployment, DHCPv6, Dual-Stack Lite, and Dual Stack scenarios.
The Mobile Backhaul Transport tests evaluated new and updated implementations with latest features of MPLS-TP and Ethernet Ring Protection (ERPS). Participating vendors created realistic interworking scenarios between MPLS-TP and ERPS as well as IP/MPLS and ERPS.
For the first time, Path Computation Element (PCE) was part of the test scenario. PCE can be used in IP/MPLS aggregation networks to centralize path computation for MPLS Traffic Engineering LSPs. It can potentially serve as an integral part of multi-vendor network management systems in the future, an area of growing importance.
Furthermore, the industry has further progressed towards interoerable packet-based synchronization. EANTC successfully tested a complete chain of the Precision Time Protocol (PTP) clocks as specified in IEEE 1588-2008 — master clock, boundary clock, transparent clock, and slave clock. In addition, advanced Synchronous Ethernet tests were conducted over Link Aggregation and Synchronous Ethernet islands connected over a PTP enabled network. Despite the progress, the telecom profile of IEEE 1588:2008 remains a non-trivial solution requiring continued interoperability testing.
“The industry has adopted new service provider requirements and has standardized even advanced solutions meanwhile,” said Carsten Rossenhövel, Managing Director of EANTC AG. “Multi-vendor MPLS and Carrier Ethernet solutions are now used extensively for mobile backhaul and mobile core networks, supporting the huge migration to data-heavy mobile services in evolved 3G and LTE/4G networks. At the same time, interoperable IPv6 solutions are becoming important as residential, business and mobile services are migrating to IPv6. We observed decent progress in our event, reflecting the rapidly growing need for multi-vendor IPv6 solutions at scale.”
Detailed information describing the test procedures and results can be found in the extensive 24-page white paper publicly available at
http://www.eantc.com/mplsewc2012.
About EANTC
The European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC) offers vendor-neutral consultancy and test facilities for network equipment manufacturers, service providers and enterprise customers. Primary business areas include interoperability, conformance, and performance testing for Carrier Ethernet, IP/MPLS, Mobile Networks and Triple Play technologies and applications. EANTC is the only MEF-accredited training provider for MEF Carrier Ethernet Certified Professional seminars in continental Europe.
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EANTC AG
Carsten Rossenhoevel
Managing Director
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cross@eantc.com
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