ANDA Networks specializing in carrier-class fiber and copper-based access network platforms announced the launch of its new EtherProbe series products. These are stand-alone Ethernet traffic monitoring and service level agreement (SLA) verification solutions which are fully contained within the customer network terminating equipment (NTE).

 

ANDA’s EtherProbe capabilities offers carriers new Carrier Ethernet 2.0 features besides bringing down management operation costs and equipment capital expenses. EtherProbe also has integrated hardware and software tools so it does not need adjunct probes, remote tests sets and external data collection tools at both ends of the transmission link.

 

Service providers and enterprise end users can remotely monitor real-time network performance, locate degradation and automatically switch to back-up paths for Ethernet based WAN connections.

 

Carriers can use the EtherProbe integrated NTEs and benefit from its intelligent end-to-end Ethernet demarcation, monitoring capabilities and tracking and measurement of performance metrics like throughput, packet loss, jitter, delay and delay variation.

 

Such measurements can be made in-line and in real-time with actual customer traffic flows without affecting the service performance. This enables carriers to implement and enforce SLAs without disrupting customer services especially when running performance tests with RFC2544 measurements.

 

“A key goal of Carrier Ethernet 2.0 is the delivery of overall management and control plane capabilities enabling service providers to rapidly order, provision, manage and bill for their Ethernet services,” said Stan Hubbard, senior analyst for Heavy Reading.

 

“EtherProbe offers service providers end-to-end network visibility without unnecessary network elements and restores to Ethernet networks the lost visibility and performance monitoring that carriers and large enterprises had with traditional SONET/SDH TDM based networks. Operators gain the end-to-end capability to deliver superior Ethernet cost/performance backed by revenue-generating SLA’s with customer-centric guarantees.”

 

Charles Kenmore, ANDA Networks (News - Alert) CEO explained that carriers were desirous of increasing their ARPU by adding carrier class Ethernet access devices. The addition of EtherProbe to the carrier class Ethernet access devices, will enable service providers to control their networks with true end-to-end network visibility and resiliency.

 

The Carrier Ethernet 2.0 enables new revenue sources through new applications specific service offerings from SLA’s supported by EtherProbe-generated data while minimizing the OPEX (News - Alert) to actually manage their networks, he said.

 

EtherProbe-enabled devices can monitor every byte of data in all packets, hop-by-hop, end-to-end and can proactively inform service providers about network degradation. It can be configured to provide alarms to the service provider and/or customer via customized threshold settings, or trigger a protection switchover to an alternate path in sub50 msec for mission-critical applications requiring high up-time and network resiliency.