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Hammerhead Systems Demos Interoperability Between PBT and MPLS Networks
(Wireless News Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)
Hammerhead Systems has announced the first demonstration of 3rd-party
interoperability showcasing direct PBT to MPLS interworking, with its
HSX 6000 serving as a gateway between a 3rd-party PBT network and a
3rd-party MPLS network, in the largest public multi-vendor Carrier
Ethernet test ever held.
At the Carrier Ethernet World Congress, HSX 6000 successfully
interoperated with its PBT Service Gateway software feature in the
end-to-end video multicast demonstration, by enabling video traffic
from the metro MPLS network, through an MPLS core using the Cisco 7604
using VPLS and Pseudowires, to be distributed seamlessly to the metro
PBT network to multiple PBT-enabled network elements.
Hammerhead's HSX 6000 demonstrated end-to-end PBT capability
interworking with equipment from Anda Networks, Ciena, Extreme
Networks, Huawei Technologies, Nokia Siemens Networks, Nortel, TPACK,
and World Wide Packets, assuring global carriers options for seamless
interworking without intermediate steps between MPLS and PBT in their
future networks.
Hammerhead's HSX 6000 enables service providers to interwork PBT
deployments with the vast MPLS and growing VPLS installed base so
carriers can leverage their existing MPLS investments as they evaluate
and/or begin to deploy PBT networks. Hammerhead's PBT Service Gateway
software feature enables more than 10X greater scalability than
alternative VLAN-only based interworking solutions. As a result,
Hammerhead's PBT Service Gateway feature significantly reduces the
number of physical Ethernet interfaces required, which substantially
lowers the costs of deployments.
"Tier 1 carriers around the world (such as BT, Deutsche Telecom, France
Telecom and Telefonica) have made huge investments in MPLS networks and
they should not have to choose between protecting those MPLS
investments and PBT," said Peter Savage, Hammerhead's President and
CEO. "We are proud to have successfully demonstrated and validated
Hammerhead's PBT Service Gateway interoperating with an MPLS network
and to offer service providers coexistence in their network, with
customer traffic and applications seamlessly interworked between MPLS
and PBT."
"Hammerhead has demonstrated the reality of PBT to MPLS interworking in
an international forum and is in a unique position in offering their
gateway to carriers," said Michael Howard, principal analyst at
Infonetics Research. "The hot debate rages on between the MPLS and PBT
camps, yet service providers considering PBT need some way to connect
PBT to their MPLS backbones -- carriers want to see a marriage rather
than a pre-courtship divorce. I believe service providers will welcome
the fact that at least one company, Hammerhead Systems, has such a
gateway for their choice and protection, regardless of their technology
direction."
"More than 70 engineers from participating companies evaluated Carrier
Ethernet interoperability in detail for two weeks at EANTC's lab in
Berlin, Germany. The test event, covering the latest IEEE, ITU and MEF
specifications, was geared towards service providers, aiming to verify
the current interoperability status of a wide range of Carrier Ethernet
implementations as well as provisioning and fault management
solutions," said Carsten Rossenhoevel, Managing Director, EANTC AG.
"Hammerhead demonstrated interoperability between the PBT cloud and the
MPLS core via a service gateway function, interworking PBT directly
with MPLS Pseudowires in an industry first demonstration."
The vendors participating in the interoperability testing included:
Alcatel-Lucent, ANDA Networks, Ceragon Networks, Ciena, Cisco Systems,
Extreme Networks, Gridpoint Systems, Hammerhead Systems, Harris Stratex
Networks, Huawei Technologies, Ixia Communications, Juniper Networks,
MRV Communications, Nokia Siemens Networks, Nortel, RAD Data
Communications, Shenick Network Systems, Soapstone Networks, Spirent,
Telco Systems, Tellabs, TPACK and World Wide Packets.
EANTC testing, including a white paper with detailed findings:
http://www.eantc.com/cewc2007 beginning September 24.
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