MRV OptiSwitch to Participate in Interoperability Testing at Carrier Ethernet World Congress

MRV Communications announced that its OptiSwitch 900 and OptiSwitch 9000 carrier-class Ethernet product lines will participate as part of the European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC) mobile backhaul interoperability demo at the Carrier Ethernet World Congress.

MRV is a networking company with a full line of packet-optical transport (POTS), carrier Ethernet, 40G networking and out-of-band networking products.

The EANTC multi-vendor interoperability demonstration will highlight mobile backhaul and enterprise managed services. As part of MRV's participation in this event, the company will demonstrate its mobile backhaul enhancements with the ability to provide synchronization to base stations through ITU-T Synchronous Ethernet and IEEE1588v2 Precision Time Protocol, which can be used to synchronize the packet-based network. In addition, MRV said it will demonstrate its circuit emulation services in the radio access network and Ethernet operations, administration and management (OAM) tools to maintain and measure SLAs.

MRV further noted it will also demonstrate the MEF standards-based carrier Ethernet features of its OptiSwitch OS904-DSL that enable mobile operators to differentiate their services portfolio with service level agreements (SLA).

MRV's OptiSwitch family is a line of compact carrier Ethernet switching platforms that range from the OptiSwitch 9000 metro Ethernet aggregation products to the OS900/OS300 demarcation series. OptiSwitch products offer service providers a suite of carrier-grade Ethernet services along with security, TDM circuit emulation and Ethernet operation, administration and maintenance (OAM) support. This full suite of OAM tools creates service awareness and rigid SLAs. OptiSwitch products also meet IEEE, ITU and MEF standards.

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