EANTC

European Advanced Networking Test Center

MPLS and SDN

Circuit Emulation, Clock Synchronization, Scalability

IP/MPLS is a mature yet complex technology with many configuration options. It is crucial to verify the individual network’s functionality, performance, and scalability before deployment. Proper quality of service and resiliency configuration is key to providing highly available business and consumer data services.

SDN aims to make networks cost-effective, flexible and dynamic. The driving idea is to enable optimized, application-aware resource management in a transport network infrastructure. By decoupling the control functions from forwarding functions to offer a centralized view of the network, the network is directly programmable and the control plane can be centrally implemented at a few controllers. Each controller is designed to manage a large number of switches.

EANTC did the first tests dating back to the Spring of 2012. Our operational knowledge ranges from single-vendor to multi-vendor interoperability testing, from use case confirmation to protocol verification.

Join the next MPLS SDN Interop Test

EANTC covers the following in the MPLS and SDN testing domain:

  • Testing: We do Proof of Concept (PoC) and Acceptance Tests covering scale, performance, functionality, security, resiliency, and interoperability. EANTC tests are independent, and we design our test plans individually based on our customer’s needs.
  • Network Audit: We will help you to find any failures in your network. You will have a unique opportunity to benefit from our many years of testing experience to enhance your existing MPLS design, routing and switching, Quality of Service, and performance.
  • 5G Transport Readiness: MPLS and SDN transport is one of the key enablers for the 5G network. We will support you in identifying your network performance KPIs, asses the synchronization requirement and functionality of your MPLS nodes, and ensuring that your network is ready to carry 5G use cases for now and in the near future.

Customers Benefits

  • Reduce implementation risks: Software-based network implementation leaves a big room for interoperability, security and performance issues compared to the physical network. We help you to reduce your implementation risks with our intensive real case scenario testing and benchmarking.
  • Reduce OpEx cost: We will find the solutions defects and issues during the design and PoC phase, and this will allow you to solve these issues at an early stage which saves time and resources.
  • We also reduce the time and resources that service providers and enterprises spend by outsourcing all testing activities to EANTC with minimal involvement.
  • Enable 5G implementation: We support you to identify your networks KPIs needed for 5G use cases, then verify if your network is capable of achieving the performance numbers. If not, we provide you with a gap analysis on how to reach your goals in the most effective and affordable way.
  • Achieve network openness and improve network operations: We verify that your network programmability and manageability are achievable end-to-end through open API protocols like NETCONF/YANG models.