Carrier Ethernet World Congress 2007 Public Multi-Vendor Interoperability Test

Full summary and key findings of EANTC's annual test

Introduction

The third EANTC multi-vendor Carrier Ethernet interoperability event addresses four groups of industry stakeholders:

• Service providers: To understand the status of new Carrier Ethernet technologies, the choices and implications for every-day operations.
• Enterprise: To gain a better understanding of the types of service levels of Carrier Ethernet services they can expect from service providers today.
• Participating vendors: To greatly improve the interoperability of their implementations, understand the challenges and opportunities of heterogeneous environments.
• Industry forums and standards bodies (MEF, IEEE): To provide feedback regarding the readiness of standards for real world deployment.

Based on EANTC's experience in organizing and executing multi-vendor interoperability events a 10 working days, closed doors, hot-staging event was conducted in EANTC's lab in Berlin, Germany. The results are summarized in this white paper.

For the complete White Paper, download the PDF.