Telecom Carriers Participate in OIF Interoperability Demo
October 4, 2007 // Published as a news service by IHS
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Seven telecommunications carriers participated in the Optical Internetworking Forum's (OIF) third worldwide interoperability demonstration - On-Demand Ethernet Services.
AT&T, China Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom, KDDI, Telecom Italia and Verizon hosted the event at lab facilities in six countries on three continents.
The carriers said the event was important to the industry and to the development of Ethernet services, said the OIF. The forum deemed the demo successful from an equipment supplier view.
Eight optical equipment suppliers highlighted solutions for support of Ethernet services over multidomain synchronous optical networking (SONET)/ synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH) transport networks by employing OIF Implementation Agreements (IAs) in a multicarrier, multivendor environment.
Participating system suppliers included Alcatel-Lucent, Ciena, Ericsson, Huawei Technologies, Marben Products, Sycamore Networks, Tellabs and ZTE.
"This worldwide interoperability event on on-demand Ethernet services focuses on major carrier requirements to provide flexible bandwidth adaptation and ease operational complexity all without impacting established connections," said Hans-Martin Foisel, project manager at Deutsche Telekom and OIF Carrier Working Group chair and vice president.
Source: Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF).