ANDA Networks (News - Alert), developer of carrier-class fiber and copper-based access network platforms, has introduced EtherReach 1000 Series Ethernet over Fiber Access platforms in association with Soapstone Networks’ PNC (News - Alert) Resource and Control framework. The company will draw attention to the Fiber Access platforms in a live end-to-end service provisioning and restoration demonstration across a multi-vendor Carrier Ethernet network.

 

Leveraging the support for OAM features, the EtherReach 1000 series platforms will provide fully protected circuits during maintenance and repair windows or in the event of link failures using G.8031 1:1 protection in times well under the 50ms standard.

 

ANDA offers OAM capabilities, which not only give service providers standards based tools to detect problems such as 802.1ag/Y.1731 but more importantly eliminates operator intervention to ensure customer’s SLAs are maintained during outages and repair intervals,” said Greg Gum, VP Marketing and Business Development, ANDA Networks.

 

In addition, Soapstone Networks (News - Alert) is demonstrating ANDA Networks’ EtherReach 1000 fiber series of intelligent network termination equipment within its PNC (Provider Network Controller) system in a multi-vendor Carrier Ethernet based network comprised of ANDA Networks, Cisco Systems, Extreme Networks, Hammerhead Systems, Nortel (News - Alert), and Telco Systems switches.

 

The demo also includes the Amdocs Cramer OSS, which is performing service decomposition into resources, establishing Key Performance Indicator (KPI) metrics for resources, and passing complete resource description to the PNC using NGOSS contract. Utilizing the NGOSS contract, the Soapstone PNC identifies the appropriate network resources and provisions the network resources to implement the NGOSS contract, the PNC maintains both availability and performance metrics for resources and communicates to network resources through standard management interfaces.

 

ANDA Networks is part of the Soapstone Networks Alliance Partner Program (SNAPP). Soapstone is working with Carrier Ethernet hardware and software vendors to enable service providers to rapidly introduce new services with standards based integration from OSS to multi-vendor transport networks.

 

“Our goal is to accelerate adoption of Carrier Ethernet 2.0 capabilities by helping to automate the entire service process flow from the carrier’s OSS through provisioning and integration into their multivendor based networks,” said Esmeralda Swartz, SVP Marketing and Business Development at Soapstone Networks. “By working with ANDA Networks, we are able to extend key carrier based features such as Ethernet OAM, all the way to the customer’s premise, which is exactly what our customers need to ensure SLAs are being met.”