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This month we’re excited to bring you a new tutorial seminar series that we’re conducting in partnership with the Carrier Ethernet Academy. Starting this month we’ve put together a full schedule of technical training programs to help you increase your EtherIQ!

Our first session will be held in Europe—in conjunction with the Carrier Ethernet World Congress—and beginning in October, we’ll be bringing them directly to your office via webinar. The first course will address Carrier Ethernet service creation and include an overview of MEF service definitions, services attributes and parameters. Click here to view a sample of the Carrier Ethernet Academy ENNI Tutorial.

This fast-paced tutorial session will present the technical details of MEF service creation along with a discussion on how automated service creation at the network edge can help maximize service velocity and accelerate the time to revenue. The session will cover the following topics in an interactive format:

Course Overview

MEF Services and the MEF 6.1 and 10.2 Documents

• Service Definitions: E-Line, E-LAN and E-Tree
• Private vs. Virtual Private Services and Service Multiplexing
• Services Attributes and Attribute Parameters
• UNI Attributes
• EVC Attributes
• EVC per UNI Attributes
• Class of Service Attributes

Automating Service Creation for MEF-Compliant Carrier Ethernet Services

• The UNI Demarcation Point
• Importance of a Universal Demarc in a Heterogeneous Access Network
• Traffic Classification and Filtering
• EVC Assignment
• Application of Bandwidth Profiles and CoS Marking
• Service Activation Measurement and “Turn-Up” Testing

Click here to register for one of two available sessions at a time most convenient to you. In order to preserve the interactive nature of the program, class size will be limited. Register today to secure your preferred time slot.

As summer fades into fall, the weather may be cooling down, but tradeshow season is heating up! Starting this month, Accedian will be attending a number of important industry conferences and events across Europe and North America.

Kicking off September, Accedian exhibited at Comptel Plus Fall 2010 from September 12th – 15th. We also attended the European MEF Workshop, co-located at the Carrier Ethernet World Congress in Warsaw on September 20th, where we provided an update on the MEF Mobile Backhaul Implementation Agreement. From Warsaw, we’re heading to Turkey to participate in the NetEvents EMEA Service Provider VIP and Press Summits from September 28th to October 1st.

In October, Accedian is back in the U.S. for a full slate of conferences and events including:

OSP Expo – Accedian will be presenting on Service Creation of Heterogeneous Networks to Support 3G/4G
October 13th – 14th at the Henry B Gonzalez Convention Center, San Antonio, TX

4G World – Booth #441
October 18th – 21st, McCormick Place, Chicago, IL

SCTE CableTec Expo – Booth #1908
October 20th – 22nd, Ernest N Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, LA

Light Reading Ethernet Expo – Booth #220
November 2nd – 3rd, Hilton New York, New York, NY

We have a limited number of passes to some of these events, so if you’re interested in attending, click here for more details.

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