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Carrier Etherent is set to dominate a new era of telecommunications through the transparent delivery of Ethernet based services from the core through to enterprise.
The N2X Carrier Ethernet test solution offers service providers and equipment manufacturers a powerful toolset to verify the interoperability, scalability and resiliency of emerging Carrier Ethernet services under real world conditions.
The networking industry is making considerable efforts to ensure that Ethernet
infrastructure and services are 'Carrier Class':
- The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) has defined a certification process to accelerate Carrier Ethernet deployment.
- Key service delivery concerns such as quality of service (QoS), resiliency and scalability are being addressed.
As this evolves, testing is recognised as an essential component to ensuring carrier-class Ethernet services are efficiently and reliably delivered to subscribers.
Agilent N2X offers a comprehensive test solution to meet Carrier Ethernet test needs offering:
- Proven MEF 9 and MEF 14 conformance test suites to verify adherence to the Metro Ethernet Forum’s UNI specification.
- Emulation of real-world network conditions including highly scalable support for MPLS, VPLS, VPWS and VLAN tag stacking.
- Powerful traffic generation capable of simulating up to 32,000 Ethernet Virtual Circuits (EVCs).
- QoS measurements across 32,000 streams to accurately verify MEF-defined traffic management parameters such as CIR and EIR.
- Industry’s first LACP emulation to verify traffic prioritization and performance across aggregated Ethernet links and characterize the impact of oversubscribed and failedlinks on services.
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