(Accedian Networks') EtherNEWS Blog

Welcome to the July 2009 issue of EtherNEWS, offered in video and Podcast versions. Each month’s edition covers a wide range of applications and solutions related to Ethernet service creation, service assurance, SLA & QoS monitoring and evolving industry standards.

This month’s feature video shows how demarcation units can replace more costly switches or routers at customer and cell sites with delay-free traffic aggregation functionality.  Without the switching overhead, these units can more efficiently aggregate wire-speed traffic, while providing granular de-aggregation using sophisticated layer 2-4 filters.  Helping to both assure and maintain a low-latency budget, switch-free aggregation can be combined with continuous QoS monitoring, Ethernet OAM and zero-latency H-QoS traffic grooming.  Join us in our lab for a hands-on demo of this technology used in a 4:1 aggregation application.

Accedian Networks’ MetroNID ™ units offer true wire-speed, multi-port aggregation that combines up to four clients’ traffic into a GbE uplink. Performed by the unit’s hardware-based Fast-Thru™ engine, aggregation performance challenges the capabilities of high-end routers and switches.

With packet-processing this advanced, aggregated traffic can be service-mapped, filtered, rate limited and shaped without adding delay or jitter to real-time applications. More than just VLAN aggregation, traffic can be separated by C/S VLAN, MAC / IP addresses, or sophisticated layer 2-4 packet selection criteria.

When combined with the advanced Ethernet OAM and service assurance capabilities available in the ESAP ™ Ethernet Service Assurance Platform, MetroNID units become micro-network elements that enable ultra-low latency Carrier Ethernet services over any network, without upgrading or replacing existing access platforms.

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Accedian Networks™ is a leading provider of Packet Performance Assurance solutions that enable service providers to deliver carrier-grade, packet-based applications and LAN services over wireless and wireline networks.

The Ethernet Service Assurance Platform (ESAP™) and EtherNID demarcation units provide in-service monitoring, loopback testing and service management for wireless backhaul, business services and hand-off applications, and establish standards-based, end-to-end operations, administration & maintenance (OAM) and assured Service Level Agreements (SLAs) over converged, multi-provider networks.

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Managing Carrier Ethernet services enabled and assured by the company’s EtherNID ™ & MetroNID ™ units, the Vision EMS reduces operational effort to the absolute minimum, enabling efficient deployment of demanding, large-scale Ethernet wireless backhaul and business access offerings.  Powerful workflow-automation and element management significantly reduces the cost, time and effort to deploy, manage and maintain Ethernet services.
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Imagine install so fast, so simple, that even your customer can do it. With Plug & Go ™, your EtherNID ™ & MetroNID ™ units take care of it. They also configure their own management settings and let you know they’re online – so you can take control and finish the job from your desk.

No more staging. No more trained technicians on-site. Delivering the absolute minimum OpEx, Plug & Go makes installing our units as simple as a cable modem. Learn More.