Spirent Advances Deployment of Carrier Ethernet Services by Enabling Comprehensive Interoperability Testing

Spirent supports EANTC in helping to identify challenges and validating technology progress at live demonstration during Carrier Ethernet World Congress

WARSAW, Poland--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- As Ethernet’s role in metro and wide area networks, storage networks, mobile backhaul and smart grids continues to expand rapidly, Spirent is helping to validate performance of Carrier Ethernet offerings for business and consumers. To that end, Spirent is supporting the European Advanced Networking Test Center AG (EANTC) in an interoperability event that tests devices from two dozen leading vendors of Ethernet equipment. The results are being showcased at Carrier Ethernet World Congress 2010, in Warsaw, Poland, September 20-23.

“This year’s Carrier Ethernet interoperability test shows the industry is progressing well with solution evolving to the next level,” said Carsten Rossenhövel, managing director, EANTC AG. “Spirent continues to play an important role in these ongoing endeavors. Without the use of test equipment, most of what we accomplished in our two-week test of more than 100 devices would not have been possible.”

Spirent solutions were used for testing synchronization for LTE mobile backhaul, Managed Ethernet services and Ethernet resiliency mechanisms. The interoperability event used Spirent TestCenter™ and Spirent GEM for traffic generation/user emulation and protocol emulation as well as impairment and analysis of testing scenarios.

Spirent TestCenter is the leading choice for network equipment manufacturers, service providers and enterprises who are leading the next wave of integrated technologies focused on delivering any application over any network. Spirent GEM is a network impairment emulator that accurately creates delays and impairments present in live networks, allowing users to validate and evaluate new products and technologies under realistic conditions.

“Spirent continues to offer the most comprehensive Ethernet testing solutions on the market allowing the industry to understand and address the complex issues associated with interoperability,” said Michael Lynge, marketing communications manager at Spirent. “With the most complete solution for conformance, functional and performance testing of Ethernet devices that highlights the impact of any impairments, Spirent plays a major role in advancing the deployment of carrier grade Ethernet services.”

This most recent Spirent/EANTC engagement builds on several recent interoperability, interconnect and test events such as the Light Reading/EANTC Advanced Global Interconnect Test, EANTC test of public and private cloud computing environments, and EANTC test of Cisco’s next generation mobile network solution. Spirent is also the exclusive test solution provider at the upcoming phase three of the Advanced Global Interconnect Test at Light Reading’s Ethernet Expo in New York, November 2-3, 2010.

Additional Resource:

For the more information on Spirent’s Carrier Ethernet solutions please visit http://www.spirent.com/Broadband/ethernet_testing.aspx

The complete test report can be downloaded from http://www.eantc.de/showcases/cewc2010/

For information on the test of Cisco’s mobile network solutions visit http://www.spirent.com/Broadband/Next-Gen_Mobile_Test.aspx

About EANTC AG

For more information visit http://www.eantc.de

About Spirent Communications plc

For more information visit http://www.spirent.com/planet-spirent/media_room/about_spirent_communications_plc.aspx

CONTACT:

Spirent Communications
Sailaja Tennati, 770-432-3225
sailaja.tennati@spirent.com
or
EANTC AG
Carsten Rossenhoevel, +49 30 3180595 0
cross@eantc.de

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