ANDA Networks at NXTcomm is showing a variety of products that help service providers move to what Greg Gum, vice president of marketing and business development at the company, calls “Carrier Ethernet 2.0”.
Carrier Ethernet 1.0, he said, was about getting service providers to roll out the initial service, but Carrier Ethernet 2.0 adds the OAM features that enable service providers to deliver SLAs and better manage links. For ANDA, this includes support for standards like 802.1ag, 802.3ah and Y.1731 as well as some additions of its own in the OAM vein.
That said, ANDA at NXTcomm this week is publicly debuting its EtherView 2.0 multivendor element management system (EMS). Gum said the product, which can address up to 10,000 nodes, is noteworthy in that it works with various other vendors’ gear. The solution employs Nakina Network’s OS software for multidomain management of telecom and data networks and is compliant with the TMF’s MTOSI, an XML-based interface into BSS/OSS systems.
Additionally, ANDA at NXTcomm is promoting its integration of the EtherReach 1000 Series Ethernet over Fiber Access platforms with Soapstone Networks’ PNC Research and Control framework, which now includes an ANDA adapter. Soapstone at the show is demoing end-to-end service provisioning and restoration that combines its own and the ANDA solution tying in with a BSS/OSS from AMDOCS Cramer.
Finally, the company this week extended its EtherReach line with a 10gig demarcation device. Gum said six to 12 months ago service providers began talking about the need for a 10gig demark device, which is interesting given many of these same carriers had just upgraded their backbone networks to 40gig. However, the need for ever-more bandwidth is no surprise given customer growth and new bandwidth-loving video applications moving on to the network.
The EtherReach 10G is a rack-mountable 1RU device that supports the latest OAM capabilities and SLA requirements. It supports both PBT and PBB-TE. And it is slated for commercial availability in the fourth quarter.
