We are happy to announce that we have successfully passed the first CE 2.0 certification program for all eight types of MEF services!
As a leading Carrier Ethernet equipment vendor, we want to ensure our products meet the customers’ requirements and conform to the latest Carrier Ethernet specifications and highest quality standards. Playing an active role in the MEF committees for many years allows us to help standardize Carrier Ethernet, contribute to the various technical specifications, and lead the market by introducing standards conforming products prior to most other vendors.
The new Carrier Ethernet 2.0 (CE 2.0) certification program for service providers and equipment vendors was launched by the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) in 2012. Telco Systems is among the first group of vendors who were certified. The completion of the first round of certification was announced in the MEF quarterly meeting on Feb 2013. Telco Systems is one of only a few vendors who passed all 680 test cases and proved its products strictly conform to the CE 2.0 standard.
This CE 2.0 program is the MEF framework through which service providers and equipment vendors can demonstrate their compliance with globally recognized MEF Carrier Ethernet service specifications. CE 2.0 standards will accelerate the deployment of Carrier Ethernet services by reducing the time and resources required to assess service offerings and equipment. This reduction of effort increases the likelihood of providing services that are fully featured, standardized for global deployment, and optimize bandwidth use and costs.
The program was designed to verify the conformance of each of the following types of services:
- E-Line (EPL and EVPL)
- E-LAN (EP-LAN and EVP-LAN)
- E-Tree (EP-Tree and EVP-Tree)
- E-Access (Access EPL and Access EVPL)
Each type of service requires different combinations of service and performance attributes defined in MEF technical specifications, and include User Network Interface (UNI), External Network-to-Network Interface (E-NNI), Ethernet Virtual Connection (EVC), and Operator Virtual Connection (OVC).
The test plan covers MEF 6.1, MEF 10.2, MEF 26.1, MEF 33, and MEF 23.1, and is composed of 293 test cases for Service Attributes and 387 test cases for Traffic Management. The major features include multiple classes of service (including various CoS labels and color identifiers), standardized performance tiers and metrics, end-to-end service fault management, standardized granularities for traffic management (up to 10G), and standardized wholesale interconnect service (including E-NNI and OVC).
Our customers have been deploying CE 2.0 compliant services, and we believe the CE 2.0 standard will allow them to continue doing so, only faster and while reducing interoperability issues in E-NNIs. You can see what our customers’ experiences have been here: NebraskaLink and FORETHOUGHT.net
We’ll continue enhancing our solution offering in order to generate value for our customers and to help them realize the potential of a connected world using a wide variety of technologies including Ethernet, MPLS, and Circuit Emulation Services (CES).
To learn more, or to read Telco Systems’ official press release on the topic, please visit: http://www.telco.com/index.php?page=press-releases&article=89