Carrier Ethernet World Congress 2007 Public Multi-Vendor Interoperability Test

Introduction

The third EANTC multi-vendor Carrier Ethernet interoperability event addresses four groups of industry stakeholders: - Service providers: To understand the status of new Carrier Ethernet technologies, the choices and implications for every-day operations. - Enterprise: To gain a better understanding of the types of service levels of Carrier Ethernet services they can expect from service providers today. - Participating vendors: To greatly improve the interoperability of their implementations, understand the challenges and opportunities of heterogeneous environments. - Industry forums and standards bodies (MEF, IEEE): To provide feedback regarding the readiness of standards for real world deployment. Based on EANTC's experience in organizing and executing multi-vendor interoperability events a 10 working days, closed doors, hot-staging event was conducted in EANTC's lab in Berlin, Germany. The results are summarized in this white paper.