Redback Completes Testing

RBAK | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- Redback Networks, an Ericsson company and a provider of multi-service edge routers and carrier Ethernet transport, announced that it has completed a successful series of multi-service carrier Ethernet-based tests conducted at the European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC).

The EANTC's network tests demonstrated Carrier Ethernet's suitability for transport and aggregation, with multi-vendor interoperability in the metro and access networks an essential proof-point. Carrier Ethernet and IP/MPLS capabilities are key to service providers' abilities to deliver a variety of cost-effective and reliable services.

Successful interoperability tests help to provide a multi-vendor platform infrastructure that is optimised, efficient and upgradeable. The delivery of business services such as Virtual LANs and triple play require Carrier Ethernet and IP/MPLS based infrastructure. Carrier Ethernet provides aggregation and transport and IP/MPLS allows traffic engineering, enabling carriers to design an efficient and optimised infrastructure.

Redback's participation in the EANTC event focused on delivery of services at the edge of the MPLS core and the reliable delivery of data such as video and mobile backhaul from the access to the core. A variety of tests were conducted that demonstrated the Redback platform's ability to deliver Ethernet services while interoperating with other independent network segments. Placed at the most critical point in the network, the core edge, Redback's SmartEdge multi-service edge router (MSER) performed outstandingly and maintained connectivity throughout the ensuing EANTC tests.

"Carrier Ethernet deployed with IP/MPLS is clearly gaining momentum. Support for these two technologies is going to be essential for a foreseeable future," said Carsten Rossenhoevel, Managing Director of EANTC. "This time we verified that reliable connections can be created and maintained across different metro technologies for delivery of a variety of lucrative services."

"We believe that Ethernet service transport and IP/MPLS are the future. Therefore, we regularly participate in interoperability tests to assure our customers that Redback is committed to providing end to end reliable solutions with our natural partners," said, Simon Williams, Sr. VP of Products, Marketing and Strategy at Redback Networks. "The SmartEdge multi-service router is a highly versatile product and these tests have demonstrated its ability to create, maintain and repair end-to-end connectivity for delivering advanced data, voice and video services."

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