Huawei WDM Compatibility

Huawei WDM Compatibility

EANTC validated functional, interoperability and performance aspects of multiple Huawei Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) solutions with a specific focus on Storage Area Network (SAN) use case scenarios.

Huawei WDM Products

Huawei OceanStor Interoperability with ZenOSS

Huawei OceanStor Interoperability with ZenOSS

EANTC independently verified a set of SaaS functions on ZenOSS to monitor Huawei OceanStor V5 Storage, including discovery, inventory and alarm collection. Specifically, we investigated the seamless integration of OceanStor with ZenOSS. We verified that the Huawei storage hardware could be fully displayed initially, and that storage configuration changes resulted in an updated inventory in ZenOSS. 

• Test Report

Huawei OceanStor V6 All-Flash Storage

Huawei OceanStor V6 All-Flash Storage

Huawei commissioned EANTC to independently verify the interoperability of Huawei OceanStor Dorado V6 All-Flash Storage with EMC's VPLEX block-based storage virtualization solution for the Storage Area Network (SAN). EANTC confirmed key functional interoperability and resiliency aspects, validating that Huawei OceanStor Dorado V6 All-Flash Storage can be provisioned and operated efficiently and reliably through the EMC VPLEX solution.

• Test Report

Accreditation Report: Viavi TeraVM NetSecOPEN Test Methodology

Accreditation Report: Viavi TeraVM NetSecOPEN Test Methodology

EANTC has been commissioned by Viavi to accredit the Viavi TeraVM test solution for use with the NetSecOPEN test methodology. Viavi has passed our accreditation tests and has successfully been accredited by NetSecOPEN. The accreditation and this report cover the ability of Viavi’s TeraVM to test next-generation firewalls.

• Test Report
• NetSecOPEN website

EANTC NetSecOPEN Certification

Huawei Intelligent IP Network Solution

Huawei Intelligent IP Network Solution

Huawei commissioned us to verify their intelligent IP network solution testing the commercial readiness of the solution's key technologies and fully developed capabilities for the all-service intelligent era. The solution is designed specifically to help customers build IP networks with intelligent ultra-broadband, connections, and O&M.

• Test Report Carrier
• Test Report Enterprise

Press Release

Huawei OceanStor Dorado & VMware Interoperability Test

Huawei OceanStor Dorado & VMware Interoperability Test

EANTC confirmed the interoperability between Huawei OceanStor Dorado V6 Storage solution with selected VMware platforms and plugins. The solution demonstrated the capability of storage resources discovery, storage management, monitoring, data replication, resources orchestration, and site recovery management successfully.

• Test Report

NFWare Virtual CGNAT on Lenovo NFVi Intel Select Solution Performance Benchmarking

NFWare Virtual CGNAT on Lenovo NFVi Intel Select Solution Performance Benchmarking

EANTC has been commissioned by Lenovo to verify the performance and scalability of the NFWare virtual Carrier-Grade Network Address Translation (vCGNAT) solution. In this test, the Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650 server hosted NFWare vCGNAT VM. EANTC tested the maximum throughput (Gbps), sessions setup rate (Sessions Per Second), and maximum concurrent sessions of NFWare vCGNAT.

• Test Report

Fortinet FortiGate-VM on Lenovo NFVi Intel Select Solution Performance Benchmarking with Intel® QuickAssist Technology

Fortinet FortiGate-VM on Lenovo NFVi Intel Select Solution Performance Benchmarking with Intel® QuickAssist Technology

Continuation to the previous report, published on February 2019, EANTC confirmed the performance gain that can be achieved by Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) using Fortinet FortiGate as a vSecGW. Our test of the Fortinet FortiGate showed that the Intel® QAT provides performance improvements in the virtualized environment by off-loading the compute-intensive encryption/decryption security operations to QAT adapters.

• Test Report

F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager on HPE ProLiant Servers Performance Benchmarking

F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager on HPE ProLiant Servers Performance Benchmarking

EANTC was commissioned by Intel to verify the performance gain of Intel Xeon Gold 6252N processors over Xeon Gold 6152 for a reference VNF which is F5 Networks BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager virtual edition.

• Test Report

Palo Alto Networks VM-700 on HPE ProLiant Servers Performance Benchmarking

Palo Alto Networks VM-700 on HPE ProLiant Servers Performance Benchmarking

Intel commissioned EANTC to verify the performance capabilities of the Palo Alto Networks virtual Next Generation Firewall (NG-FW) VM-700. EANTC’s tests were aligned with the use case of small data center NG-FW deployments. In these environments, HTTP/HTTPS traffic throughput and concurrent sessions are the significant parameters to evaluate the performance and the scalability of a NG-FW solution.

• Test Report

F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager on HPE ProLiant Servers Performance Benchmarking

F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager on HPE ProLiant Servers Performance Benchmarking

EANTC has been commissioned by Intel to evaluate the performance of a virtualized SGi firewall provided by F5 Networks and hosted on HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen10 servers provided by HPE. 

• Test Report

Broadband Forum welcomes EANTC and VMware as technology partners to launch Open Broadband Lab Europe

Broadband Forum welcomes EANTC and VMware as technology partners to launch Open Broadband Lab Europe

Broadband Forum (BBF) together with EANTC and VMware launched the OB Lab Europe to accelerate network transformation and migration to a cloud-based multi-vendor broadband infrastructure. BBF members will use the lab hosted by EANTC to validate interoperability of virtualized broadband access infrastructure aligning with Broadband Forum standards.

• Broadband Forum &
  Open Broadband Labs
• Press Release
• Video

Fortinet FortiGate VM on Lenovo NFVi Intel Select Solution Performance Benchmarking

Fortinet FortiGate VM on Lenovo NFVi Intel Select Solution Performance Benchmarking

EANTC was commissioned by Lenovo to verify the performance and service scalability of the Fortinet FortiGate as a virtual security gateway (SecGW). The VNF was deployed on Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650 compute nodes conforming to the Intel® Select Solution For NFVI program.

• Test Report

Cisco Catalyst 9000 Test

Cisco Catalyst 9000 Test

Cisco commissioned EANTC to conduct an independent performance test of its new Catalyst 9000 family switches. Our report includes the verification of throughput performance for IP packets (IPv4 and IPv6), Ethernet unicast and multicast frames. In addition, the report also contains scalability tests of the IP Forwarding Information Base (FIB) and Ethernet MAC table.

• Test Report

ADVA Security Performance Test

ADVA Security Performance Test

ADVA commissioned EANTC to verify the functionality of various security features and a few performance aspects of ADVA's FSP 150 encryption edge device. We ran a range of tests on the encryption devices, with particular focus on Carrier Ethernet data protection use cases.

• Test Report

• Press Release

Nuage Networks SD-WAN 2.0 Solution

Nuage Networks SD-WAN 2.0 Solution

Nuage Networks, a Nokia business, commissioned EANTC to conduct an independent test of their SD-WAN solution. EANTC validated the scalability, functional capabilities, reliability and manageability of the Nuage Networks SD-WAN 2.0 solution extensively.

• Test Report

Contrail Juniper SD-WAN Solution

Contrail Juniper SD-WAN Solution

Juniper Networks commissioned EANTC to conduct an independent review of its Contrail SD-WAN solution. EANTC verified a specific set of test cases, which focused on the breadth and depth of Juniper's SD-WAN solution features and capabilities.

• Test Report

Huawei 5G-Ready SDN: Evaluation of the Transport Network Solution

Huawei 5G-Ready SDN: Evaluation of the Transport Network Solution

Huawei selected a range of functional aspects from their product portfolio for the verification. EANTC was invited to witness the solution at Huawei's global headquarters in Shenzhen, China, in August 2018. The tests were executed in three different test beds, each focusing on specific aspects of the transport network.

• Test Report

• Video

Huawei Cloud AI Fabric Ultra-High-Speed Benchmarking

Huawei Cloud AI Fabric Ultra-High-Speed Benchmarking

Huawei commissioned us to verify the networking efficiency of their Cloud AI Fabric solution. It includes data center switches and smart network interface cards (NICs) based on 100GigabitEthernet and 25GigabitEthernet. We performed a set of industry-accepted Intel MPI Benchmarks. The results were successfully presented at CeBIT.

• Marketing Report
• Huawei Press Release

• Video Interview

Metaswitch Clearwater IMS Core Scalability and Performance Test

Metaswitch Clearwater IMS Core Scalability and Performance Test

Metaswitch commissioned EANTC to verify the scability and integration of their Clearwater IMS Core solution with Cloud Providers such as Amazon AWS or Google Cloud. In addition to this, we emulated a test scenario with a Mobile Network Operator serving up to 20 Million subscribers.

• Marketing Report

• Metaswitch Press Release

Huawei Cloud-based Broadband Network Gateway Solution

Huawei Cloud-based Broadband Network Gateway Solution

EANTC tested advanced aspects of the Cloud-based Broadband Network Gateway (vBNG) with a focus on performance, scalability and high availability with up to 20 Million emulated subscribers. The solution performed very well across all test scenarios. The engagement built on test cases previously executed in February 2017.

• Marketing Report

Huawei 4T Line Processing Unit Performance, Power Efficiency, Scalability and Functionality

Huawei 4T Line Processing Unit Performance, Power Efficiency, Scalability and Functionality

We tested the forwarding performance, power efficiency, scalability and functionality of Huawei’s new 4T Line Processing Unit (LPU) in a Huawei NE9000 series router. Once we concluded the performance of the line card, we turned to the control plane. We verified the maximum capacity of FIB and BGP routing entries as well as core router features.

• Marketing Report

First EANTC SD-WAN Verification Published: Huawei Test Report

First EANTC SD-WAN Verification Published: Huawei Test Report

EANTC has started an SD-WAN testing initiative open to any manufacturer of SD-WAN solutions. Vendors have the opportunity to choose their bespoke test package from EANTC’s SD-WAN testing portfolio. For its participation, Huawei chose the following test areas: Scalability, Endpoint and Link Resiliency, and Performance Monitoring.

• Test Report
  
• Huawei Press Release

EANTC Successfully Tests Huawei 50GE Flex Ethernet Card

EANTC Successfully Tests Huawei 50GE Flex Ethernet Card

EANTC analyzed the functionality of Huawei's new Flex Ethernet (FlexE) network card, the ANK1EV2. We tested new capabilities of the FlexE technology; network slicing and its benefits as a congestion isolation mechanism, and FlexE bonding of Ethernet links. We verified the usability of this card in future 5th Generation mobile networks (5G).

• Test Report
• Huawei Press Release

White Paper: EANTC Testing Services for Intel Network Builders Members

White Paper: EANTC Testing Services for Intel Network Builders Members

Intel partners with EANTC to verify the performance and reliability of NFV implementations. The testing services offered by EANTC to members of the Intel Network Builders ecosystem allows them to test that their VNFs—and other NFV components—can perform at a carrier-class level. A paper now explains how to get involved.

• Intel White Paper

Secucloud Advanced Suite Solution Performance Test

Secucloud Advanced Suite Solution Performance Test

EANTC verified that the ECS2 Advanced Suite solution can handle up to 500,000 DNS queries per second using a single compute server. We evaluated the performance after all DNS records were cached in DNS Shield. Based on current statistics, the solution is theoretically capable of handling a range of 17 - 33 million subscribers per compute node.

• Marketing Report

Open Standard for Network Security Testing Performance

Open Standard for Network Security Testing Performance

The NetSecOPEN initiative will develop a vendor-independent standard for testing enterprise network security performance. EANTC is looking forward to contribute our expertise to model a transparent and realistic benchmarking methodology for next-generation firewalls. The initiative is open to all interested in collaborating.

• NetSecOPEN Project Page
• Spirent Press Release

Video: F-Interop Project Goals Explained in Detail

Video: F-Interop Project Goals Explained in Detail

The European research project, of which EANTC is a member, supports small and medium sized businesses and organisations to develop interoperability tests for the Internet of Things. The video offers an insight into the work and goals of the project as well as introducing the different involved partners.

• Video
• F-Interop Project Page

Performance and Functionality Test of ADVA FSP 150 ProVMe

Performance and Functionality Test of ADVA FSP 150 ProVMe

EANTC confirmed in a series of verification that FSP 150 ProVMe can replace legacy customer-premises routers with virtualized, integrated solutions, without sacrificing any of the functionality or performance. The independent test series was commissioned by Intel under the Intel Network Builders program.

• Marketing Report
• Press Release

EANTC Tests Huawei CloudMetro Performance and Functionality

EANTC Tests Huawei CloudMetro Performance and Functionality

The Chinese vendor commissioned EANTC to verify the functionality, performance and security of their CloudMetro solution. The main goal of the solution is the transition of the broadband access infrastructure into a cloud-based architecture with a separation of the control and user plane.

• Marketing Report

EANTC Successfully Joins First ETSI NFV Plugtest in Madrid

EANTC Successfully Joins First ETSI NFV Plugtest in Madrid

EANTC tested interoperability of NFV Management and Orchestration (MANO) solutions, infrastructure (NFVI) and VNFs. Using our brand-new MANO test automation service, we evaluated network service management and scale-out with seven MANO open-source and commercial solutions. Stay tuned for more details.

• Press Release

Scalability and Functionality: Sandvine Virtualized TSE and Virtualized PTS

Scalability and Functionality: Sandvine Virtualized TSE and Virtualized PTS

The Traffic Steering Engine (TSE) was introduced as a means to load balance as well as chain data plane traffic and tested by EANTC in this regard. To demonstrate a realistic deployment scenario, multiple instances of Sandvine’s Policy Traffic Switch (PTS) Virtual Series were chained. The tests were part of the Intel Network Builders program.

• Marketing Report

Latest Series of NIA Results Published

Latest Series of NIA Results Published

New vendors and vendor combinations were added to the NFVi-VNF interoperability matrix. The results that were collected in EANTC's lab in Berlin with remote support by the participating vendors show interoperability progress but also continuing OpenStack challenges.

• Report
• Article on Light Reading

Performance and Functionality Tests of the Virtualized Metaswitch Perimeta SBC

Performance and Functionality Tests of the Virtualized Metaswitch Perimeta SBC

EANTC was commissioned within the Intel Network Builders program to perform independent tests of the Metaswitch virtualized Perimeta. In a series of verifications we demonstrated that Perimeta can replace legacy systems, without sacrificing any of the functionality or performance.

• Marketing Report

Juniper's MPC9E in EANTC Performance, Scale and Power Efficiency Test

Juniper's MPC9E in EANTC Performance, Scale and Power Efficiency Test

The MPC9E exhibited impressive data throughput with 1,6Tbit/s forwarded in unicast and multicast scenarios. It also showed highly respectable average latencies in a unicast test scenario with IPv4, IPv6 and a mix of IPv4 and IPv6 traffic, as well as excellent FIB scale and performance with 10,000,000 routes in both IPv4 and IPv6 scenarios.

• Marketing Report

EANTC Tests Juniper’s MPC3E-NG and MPC5E Line Cards

EANTC Tests Juniper’s MPC3E-NG and MPC5E Line Cards

We validated performance, scalability, energy efficiency and high availability capabilities in realistic test scenarios. At that, Juniper’s new line cards showed flawless data throughput, excelled in control plane scalability for L2VPNs and L3VPNs and impressed in the L3VPN service failover tests.

• Marketing Report

Juniper’s Cloud CPE Solution Put to the Test by EANTC

Juniper’s Cloud CPE Solution Put to the Test by EANTC

The vendor claims it's product is a network function virtualization (NFV) platform designed to simplify the transition to virtualized, cloud-based solutions for both NFV service providers and their customers. We were tasked by Light Reading to evaluate these claims. What we found is promising and the solution performs as specified by Juniper.

• Report on Light Reading
• Press Release

EANTC Comprehensively Validates ADVA's Virtual Switch

EANTC Comprehensively Validates ADVA's Virtual Switch

We tested the performance and scalability of the Ensemble Connector platform, a customer premises equipment (CPE) virtual switch coupled with an Intel® Atom™-based virtualization (NFV) platform. We focused on a comparison of the forwarding performance of the two virtual switches, which were running on the same COTS server.

• Report on Light Reading

Testing Cisco's Threat-Centric Security Solution

Testing Cisco's Threat-Centric Security Solution

Service Providers' and enterprises' IT infrastructures are sensitive to more threats than ever before. This is one reason why Light Reading asked us to validate the functionality, performance and manageability of Cisco’s virtualized security products lineup to answer: What is the state of the art in (telco-) cloud ready network security solutions?

• Report on Light Reading
• Video

Meet EANTC at Mobile World Congress, Booth 7L51, February 22-25

Meet EANTC at Mobile World Congress, Booth 7L51, February 22-25

EANTC's team is looking forward to meet with partners and customers once more in Barcelona. If you like to discuss latest developments in the telecommunications industry and learn how independent testing is contributing, get in touch. See you soon!

• Contact E-mail

Validating Nokia's IP Routing and Mobile Gateway VNFs

Validating Nokia's IP Routing and Mobile Gateway VNFs

EANTC tested the Virtualized Service Router (VSR) for virtual Provider Edge (VSR-PE) and virtual Route Reflector (VSR-RR) applications. The Virtualized Mobile Gateway (VMG) was tested for virtual System Architecture Evolution (SAE) Gateways (VMG-SAEGW) and virtual Evolved Packet Data Gateway (VMG-ePDG) applications.

• Report on Light Reading
• Video Report
• Nokia Blog

NIA: EANTC Conducts Industry's First Independent Interop Test of NFVIs with VNFs

NIA: EANTC Conducts Industry's First Independent Interop Test of NFVIs with VNFs

EANTC and Light Reading, on behalf of the New IP Agency (NIA), announce the publication of the first industry-wide verification of multi-vendor interoperability of NFVIs (Network function virtualization infrastructure) with VNFs (Virtual Network Function). 12 participants, 39 tested combinations and a pass rate of 64% make for exciting results.

• EANTC NIA Micropage
• NIA Phase 1 Report on Light Reading
• Video:NFV Test Report Is a Gamechanger

A Realistic Use Case for Edge Virtualization

A Realistic Use Case for Edge Virtualization

Brocade, Fortinet, Intel, Ixia, Overture, Spirent and Supermicro collaborated to provide independent NFV performance and service chain validation on low cost COTS hardware. Using a real-world traffic model, Overture ECE solution equipped with VNF’s from Brocade and Fortinet showed solid line-rate performance in all test scenarios.

• Marketing Report

Huawei HTR 4K Service Acceleration Put to the Test

Huawei HTR 4K Service Acceleration Put to the Test

Based on a range of tests with data download and streaming 4K video, we could verify the ability of Huawei’s RACE TCP acceleration technology to maintain good TCP performance in a network significantly impaired by random packet loss and high delay and delay variation.

• Marketing Report

EANTC Validates Cisco's Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) Infrastructure

EANTC Validates Cisco's Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) Infrastructure

The two-part evaluation gives an overview of Cisco's NFVI and an in-depth performance evaluation of Cisco's virtual switch technology. We also examined Carrier-grade high availability and reliability as well as the integration, features and performance of two key applications.

• Test Website
• Webinar Registration, November 5
• Interview Carsten Rossenhövel
  

Press Release

Strategies for NFV Testing Webinar: September 8, 5pm CEST

Strategies for NFV Testing Webinar: September 8, 5pm CEST

Carsten Rossenhoevel will explain test methods covering functionality, interoperability and performance within the ETSI NFV reference model. He will describe the EANTC approach, taking into account initiatives of ETSI NFV ISG, open source communities and the New IP Agency (NIA).

• Presentation
• Webinar Recording
• Contact Constanze Richter for more information.

EANTC Puts Juniper Networks’ NorthStar Controller to the Test

EANTC Puts Juniper Networks’ NorthStar Controller to the Test

We are excited to publish our independent validation of Juniper's NorthStar Controller. In a world where automation and agility are the corner stone, we extensively tested an operator's ability to use the NorthStar Controller's holistic view, driven by graphical user interface, as well as REST APIs, to set, modify and optimize network paths.

• Marketing Report

Ericsson Evolved IP Network Solution 2015 Update

Ericsson Evolved IP Network Solution 2015 Update

After the success of the 2014 EANTC report, Ericsson asked EANTC to create an updated version covering additional fixed/mobile solution capabilities and newly available products. The update confirms that the included Smart Services Router (SSR) lives up to its name, delivering true multi-services such as BNG, IPsec, Ethernet and IP/MPLS.

• Marketing Report
• Ericsson Press Release
• Ericsson Evolved IP Network Portfolio

EANTC Validates Cisco’s Service Provider Virtualization and Cloud Portfolio

EANTC Validates Cisco’s Service Provider Virtualization and Cloud Portfolio

The report is the first tangible, complete, end-to-end independent validation of Cisco’s NFV architecture. We explore the use of free software and standardized interfaces to orchestrate and manage devices and services. We verify that Cisco's NFV solution supports multi-vendor devices, complete service life-cycle automation.

• Test Website
• Report on Light Reading
• Webinar: Detailed look at Validating Cisco Cloud and Virtualization Portfolio (June 25)
  

Meet EANTC at the Mobile World Congress, Booth 7G21, March 2-5

Meet EANTC at the Mobile World Congress, Booth 7G21, March 2-5

Carsten Rossenhövel, Managing Director, and our team of consultants will be happy to meet you for a first-hand introduction to our turn-key service provider testing solutions. Visit EANTC at our booth or contact us in advance to set-up an appointment. See you soon in Barcelona!

• Contact E-mail

Developing Solutions dsTest Diameter Signaling Performance Tests

Developing Solutions dsTest Diameter Signaling Performance Tests

EANTC has tested Policy and Charging Rule Function (PCRF) solutions since 2010. From the start, we have worked with Developing Solutions, a test equipment vendor specializing in Evolved Packet Core (EPC) interface testing. When they announced a fourfold increased performance of their product, EANTC set out to validate the claim.

• Marketing Report
• Developing Solutions Press Release

EANTC Verifies ETSI NFV Proof of Concept #21

EANTC Verifies ETSI NFV Proof of Concept #21

The PoC members Altera, Broadcom, Huawei and Tilera wanted to demonstrate the benefits of hardware acceleration in NFV environments for functions that are compute or network intensive. One example thereof is IPsec termination. The participants provided various solutions to the gateway function with results being discussed in the white paper.

• Marketing Report

Procera Networks Virtual PacketLogic Software Performance Test

Procera Networks Virtual PacketLogic Software Performance Test

The vendor implemented a version of its solution in software that is meant to run on a standard off the shelf server. Thus, service providers can run multiple virtual network functions (VNFs) in the same server. The test set-up centered on service provider deployment requirements, specifically on performance and latency.

• Marketing Report
• Procera Press Release

Huawei’s 1T Line Processing Unit (LPU) Line Card Test

Huawei’s 1T Line Processing Unit (LPU) Line Card Test

Both LPUI-1T line card models (24x 40GbE and 8x 100GbE per slot) performed at line rate for all packet sizes tested as well as in a dual- stack IPv4/IPv6 configuration. All core-routing and services functioned as expected alongside consistent convergence measurements between all test runs. Set-up in a Huawei NE5000E, it is also energy efficient.

• Marketing Report

Ericsson’s Complete Evolved IP Network Solution Put to the Test

Ericsson’s Complete Evolved IP Network Solution Put to the Test

The tests spanned the entire converged network - base station to the Internet and all elements in between. The solution is designed and developed with Ericsson’s extensive understanding of operator and subscriber needs. The report shows the completeness, packet-based clock synchronization, high availability, performance and scalability.

• Marketing Report
• Ericsson Press Release

Cisco Submits Quantum Virtual Packet Core (QvPC) to Independent Test

Cisco Submits Quantum Virtual Packet Core (QvPC) to Independent Test

We confirmed Cisco’s claims that the QvPC supports UMTS (3G) and LTE (4G) calls just as the physical EPC, the Cisco ASR5000-family, would. EANTC further verified that functions such as High Availability, Deep Packet Inspection (DPI), and firewall/NAT worked as expected in the Cisco UCS-based virtual implementation.

• Test Report
• Blog by Cisco

Guinness World Record™: Highest Capacity Commercial Fiber Optic Link (Single Pair)

Guinness World Record™: Highest Capacity Commercial Fiber Optic Link (Single Pair)

Türk Telekom AS achieved the title by transferring 8 terabits of data per second using a Wave-Division Multiplex (WDM) solution in the production network. The transfer was employed by 80 100Gbit/s channels on a single fibre, utilizing Alcatel-Lucent's 1830 Photonic Service Switch and 1626 Light Manager. The data transfer rate was a commercial execution on a pair of fibrotic connections. EANTC acted as an independent expert witness, measuring the capacity data transfer speed, permitting Guinness World Records to verify the achievement.

• Guinness World Record
  
• EANTC Marketing Report

EANTC Confirms Successful 400G Test for Huawei's NE5000E Core Router

EANTC Confirms Successful 400G Test for Huawei's NE5000E Core Router

The NE5000E with its three different 400 Gbit/s line cards showed a high forwarding performance on both line card and full chassis load. Huawei pushes the boundaries for Ethernet density, services’ scale and power efficiency. The tests included distributed BGP, distributed RSVP, virtual router and unequal cost multipath load balancing.

• Test Report
• Huawei's Press Release

Huawei SDN Showcase at SDN & OpenFlow World Congress 2013

Huawei SDN Showcase at SDN & OpenFlow World Congress 2013

In preparation for Layer123's SDN & OpenFlow World Congress Huawei Technologies commissioned EANTC to validate Huawei’s OpenFlow solution targeted at service providers. The white paper explains the use cases, test cases and results we collected during the test execution in EANTC’s lab in Berlin, Germany.

• White Paper

Successful Test of Huawei's Service Activation Using RFC 2544

Successful Test of Huawei's Service Activation Using RFC 2544

EANTC used the vendor's RFC (Request for Comment) 2544 built-in tester on complete interfaces. The measurements functioned as expected and provided useful and well displayed output on the command line interface (CLI). Huawei explained that they will support the ITU-T Y.1564 solution in an upcoming release of their software.

• Test Report

EANTC Hosts First Face-to-face IPv6 Hackers Meeting in Berlin

EANTC Hosts First Face-to-face IPv6 Hackers Meeting in Berlin

The IPv6 Hackers list was created to provide a platform for IPv6 security researchers and IPv6 networking professionals. Since August 2011 members discuss low-level IPv6 networking and security issues. Now EANTC's offices saw the first in-person meeting with a variety of presentations and discussions on IPv6 security.

• IPv6 Hackers Homepage
• IPv6 Hackers Archive

Presentation on Ethernet Services over OTN (Optical Transport Networks)

Presentation on Ethernet Services over OTN (Optical Transport Networks)

Carsten Rossenhoevel talked on behalf of the MEF at the 15th Annual WDM & Next Generation Optical Networking conference in Monaco. In his role as Marketing EMEA Co-Chair he spoke about the wide variety of optical Transport Technologies to deliver Carrier Ethernet services in Access networks.

• Presentation

IPv6 Intrusion Detection: Public Workshop on June 12, Berlin

IPv6 Intrusion Detection: Public Workshop on June 12, Berlin

The Beuth University of Applied Sciences, EANTC and the University of Potsdam, in cooperation with Strato AG, gave a presentation of the current risks of IPv6 attacks. We focused on the readiness of commercial firewalls plus the utility of intrusion detection tools.

• Presentations
• c't Article (German)
• Invitation

• Contact

Carsten, Cakes and Ethernet Europe 2013

Carsten, Cakes and Ethernet Europe 2013

Carsten Rossenhoevel, EANTC's Managing Director, talks to Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief at Light Reading. Find out more about the hot topics at Ethernet Europe which featured the themes SDN, Carrier Ethernet 2.0 and the Cloud Converge.

• Light Reading's Video

IPv6 Intrusion Detection Research Project

IPv6 Intrusion Detection Research Project

The Beuth University of Applied Science, EANTC and the University of Potsdam in cooperation with Strato AG joined forces to independently assess the current risks of IPv6 attacks. Together intrusion detection tools were developed and commercial firewalls were put to the test. First results were presented at the V6 World Congress in Paris.

• Presentation

EANTC Measures Cisco's Quantum Policy Suite Subscriber Scalability Under Real-World VoLTE Transaction Model

EANTC Measures Cisco's Quantum Policy Suite Subscriber Scalability Under Real-World VoLTE Transaction Model

Under EANTC's Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) test program, we verified the scale of Cisco's solution up to 75 Million subscribers. In addition, EANTC tested realistic Voice over LTE (VoLTE) use cases at scale with up to 250,000 transactions/s.

• Test Report
• Cisco Blog
• Developing Solutions Test Equipment

EANTC Sets Scalability and Performance Benchmark in LTE Policy Controller Testing

EANTC Sets Scalability and Performance Benchmark in LTE Policy Controller Testing

EANTC tested Comverse’s DMM Policy Manager. The mobile policy controller (PCRF) supported up to 31.5 Million subscribers and more than 200,000 transactions/second. EANTC used Developing Solutions’ dsTest to emulate large-scale realistic test scenarios. This report marks the launch of EANTC’s next-generation PCRF test program 2013.

• Test Report
• Press Release Developing Solutions

Meet EANTC at Booth 7F02, Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, February 25-28

Meet EANTC at Booth 7F02, Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, February 25-28

Carsten Rossenhoevel, Managing Director, and our consultants will be happy to meet you for a first-hand introduction to our turn-key service provider testing solutions. Specifically, we will launch our 2013 PCRF testing program. Please contact us to set-up an appointment.

• Invitation
• Hall Plan
• Contact E-mail

Carrier Ethernet 2.0: Funkschau on Latest EANTC Tests

Carrier Ethernet 2.0: Funkschau on Latest EANTC Tests

The article highlights vendor devices that were analyzed during our latest interop event. The results show that service provider can rely on the tested solutions for CE 2.0.

• Funkschau Article

Interoperability Testing in Heterogeneous Networks Presentation

Interoperability Testing in Heterogeneous Networks Presentation

Efficient interoperability testing is a key concern in networks of growing complexity. Carsten Rossenhövel, EANTC's managing director, spoke at IIR’s NGN Delivery Solutions conference about opportunities and challenges of lab test automation.

• Presentation

Testing Alcatel-Lucent's 1850 Transport Service Switch

Testing Alcatel-Lucent's 1850 Transport Service Switch

Resiliency has always been important in migration processes. It is also true for evolving transport networks from SONET/SDH to packet-based technologies. EANTC explores the ability of the 1850 Transport Service Switch (TSS) to provide highly resilient and scalable services.

• Test Report

EANTC Receives Two MEF Awards

EANTC Receives Two MEF Awards

The MEF recognized members for their outstanding contributions. EANTC received an Editor Award for composing the MEF 37: Abstract Test Suite for ENNI. And Carsten Rossenhövel, EANTC's Managing Director, was honored with an Outstanding Contributors Award for his engagement as Marketing MBH Co-Chair & EMEA Marketing Co-Chair.

• MEF 37: Abstract Test Suite for ENNI

Interoperability: Testing Carrier Ethernet 2.0

Interoperability: Testing Carrier Ethernet 2.0

Carsten Rossenhövel talked about EANTC's latest interop tests at the CEWC 2012 in Barcelona. Carrier Ethernet 2.0 was one of our testing areas and therefore part of his presentation which is ready for download.

• Presentation

Light Reading Webinars: Cisco Data Center Megatest

Light Reading Webinars: Cisco Data Center Megatest

Carsten Rossenhövel, Managing Director of EANTC discussed online the results of the latest Light Reading Cloud Benchmark Study. He was joined by leading experts from Heavy Reading and Cisco. The webinars' slides are available for download.

• Evolving the Data Center Critical Cloud Success
• Administering IPv6-Based Cloud Intelligent Networks

• Optimizing Cloud-Based Video Delivery

Talk on Evolved 3G/LTE Backhaul Networks at TNMO

Talk on Evolved 3G/LTE Backhaul Networks at TNMO

Carsten Rossenhövel, Managing Director of EANTC, spoke about „Multi-Vendor Interoperability in Evolved 3G/LTE Backhaul Networks“. The IIR conference for Transport Networks for Mobile Operators (TNMO) focused on mobile backhaul and RAN.

• Slides

Juniper Networks MobileNext Broadband Gateway

Juniper Networks MobileNext Broadband Gateway

EANTC was commissioned by Juniper Networks to validate the performance, scalability, and flexibility of the MobileNext Broadband Gateway (MBG) - an implementation of the 3GPP Gateway GPRS Support Node (GGSN) and Packet Data Network Gateway (P-GW).

• Juniper Homepage

Cisco Data Center Megatest

Cisco Data Center Megatest

Commissioned by Light Reading, EANTC reviewed all aspects of cloud service delivery with Cisco components: intelligent network, cloud data center infrastructure, cloud applications and services. We independently validated Cisco’s data center to consumer solution regarding performance.

• Test Report
• Videos Making of Cloud Mega Test Cloud Apps/Services, Cloud Network & Cloud Data Center

Crossbeam Passed Real-World Firewall Performance Test

Crossbeam Passed Real-World Firewall Performance Test

EANTC tested Crossbeam’s X80-S firewall solution in a test environment emulating a next generation mobile network. Using Spirent Avalanche, more than one Million active mobile subscribers were emulated generating more than 107 Gbit/s of data throughput. The test demonstrates the Crossbeam Firewall under real-world conditions.

• Contact Blue Coat for the Test Report

100 Gbit/s Ethernet Router Test: Alcatel-Lucent

100 Gbit/s Ethernet Router Test: Alcatel-Lucent

The latest report of Light Reading and EANTC’s program on 100 Gigabit Ethernet enabled routers highlights the solution of Alcatel-Lucent.

• Test Report

100 Gbit/s Ethernet Router Test: ZTE

100 Gbit/s Ethernet Router Test: ZTE

Light Reading and EANTC have established a program to evaluate 100 Gigabit Ethernet enabled routers for forwarding performance, service scalability, and more. In the first report in the series, EANTC tests ZTE's solution.

• Test Report

EANTC Tests Cisco's MPLS-TP Solution

EANTC Tests Cisco's MPLS-TP Solution

Cisco commissioned EANTC to test their MPLS-TP (MPLS Transport Profile) solution. EANTC verified the functionality of new Operations, Administration and Management (OAM) features and measured out of service times during realistic link failure events. The test work included the Cisco 7604, 7606, ASR9006, ASR9010, and CPT600.

• Test Report

BroadHop Performance and Scability Test

BroadHop Performance and Scability Test

EANTC was commissioned by BroadHop to evaluate the performance and scability of BroadHop's Quantum Network Suite mobile core policy server (PCRF) under real-world conditions.

Get the full Test Report on request.

Testing Cisco's Mobile Core, Data Center & Business Services

Testing Cisco's Mobile Core, Data Center & Business Services

The second article focusing on Cisco's Mobile Core, data center and business services has been published. In this report we cover Cisco's newly minted Mobile Core device - the ASR5000, various forward thinking LTE demonstrations, business oriented Firewall and NAT services as well as SBC functionality in Cisco's ASR1006 router.

• Light Reading Article

Testing Cisco's Next-Gen Mobile Network 2010

Testing Cisco's Next-Gen Mobile Network 2010

EANTC, commissioned by Light Reading, staged an independent, public test of Cisco’s complete mobile infrastructure – including mobile backhaul, the network core, and the mobile core with large-scale packet and voice gateways. The first article focuses 12 test areas.

• Light Reading Article

Cloud Computing Testing

Cloud Computing Testing

EANTC and Spirent collaborated in defining data center and cloud computing test methodologies. The tests were held in Spirent's lab in Calabasas and demonstrated at INTEROP Las Vegas. The white paper informs about public and private cloud computing and how to test them.

• Test Report
  

Arista Networks DCM-7508 384-port 10Gigabit Ethernet Switch Test

Arista Networks DCM-7508 384-port 10Gigabit Ethernet Switch Test

The European Advanced Networking Test Center successfully tested the performance of Arista's new high-density DCM-7508 384-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch.

• Test Report
  

Test Results of Alcatel-Lucent's 1850 Transport Service Switch

Test Results of Alcatel-Lucent's 1850 Transport Service Switch

EANTC verified the performance of the packet transport protection mechanisms of Alcatel-Lucent's 1850 Transport Service Switch (TSS). In January 2010, the tests were performed at EANTC's lab in Berlin.

• Test Report
  

Test Results of Rhode & Schwarz’ New Encryption Device SITLine ETH VLAN

Test Results of Rhode & Schwarz’ New Encryption Device SITLine ETH VLAN

EANTC successfully tested the performance, functionality and capabilities of the new SITLine ETH VLAN encryption device. The test results confirmed that the device is able to encrypt Ethernet traffic without impacting the network performance.

• Test Report
  
• Rohde & Schwarz's Website

Unicast and Multicast Performance and Latency Tests for Arista’s 7148SX Switch

Unicast and Multicast Performance and Latency Tests for Arista’s 7148SX Switch

Arista Networks entrusted EANTC recently with testing the performance of Arista’s 7148SX 48-port, 10 GbE switch. The goal of the test was to verify the performance characteristics such as the non-blocking throughput capacity and the low latency of switch.

• Test Report
  
• Arista's Website

Juniper Networks MX 3D Router Capabilities with the New Junos Trio Chipset

Juniper Networks MX 3D Router Capabilities with the New Junos Trio Chipset

The European Advanced Networking Test Center was commissioned by Juniper Networks to validate the performance, services scale, and power efficiency of the new 16-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet (16x10GbE) MPC line card and MX80 3D router.

• Test Report
  

• Juniper's Website

• Press Release

ITSF (International Telecom Sync Forum), Synchronization Testing – an MEF Perspective

ITSF (International Telecom Sync Forum), Synchronization Testing – an MEF Perspective

On behalf of the MEF (Metro Ethernet Forum) EANTC gave a presentation at the ITSF conference Time & Synchronisation in Telecoms in Rome, Italy.

• Presentation
  

VOIPFUTURE Smart Monitoring Probe

VOIPFUTURE Smart Monitoring Probe

EANTC recently tested the Advanced RTP Monitoring Solution developed by VOIPFUTURE. The test was set up to verify the vendor’s claim that the Smart RTP Monitoring Probe should be able to analyze VoIP streams in real-time at gigabit Ethernet full line rate, thereby detecting packet loss and IP packet delay variation.

• Test Report
  

Alcatel-Lucent's Layer 3 VPN Backhauling Solution

Alcatel-Lucent's Layer 3 VPN Backhauling Solution

Alcatel-Lucent and EANTC recently performed a design verification test for a major European carrier to emulate performance and operability of the vendor's 7750 SR-7 and 7740 ESS-7 devices under real-life conditions. It was set up to verify the use for aggregation Ethernet Backhauling of Layer 3 VPN services over layer 2 services.

• Test Report
  

IP Video Testing Methodologies White Paper

IP Video Testing Methodologies White Paper

EANTC collected its experiences with IP Video testing into an IP Video Test Methodologies document. Please see the White Paper for further information.

• White Paper
  

Peer-to-Peer Filtering Solutions, A Comparison Test

Peer-to-Peer Filtering Solutions, A Comparison Test

EANTC tested Cisco Systems', Ipoque's and Procera Networks' filtering solutions. All test results were published on the InternetEvolution website (now InformationWeek.com).

• Cisco SCE8000 Report

Peer-to-Peer Filtering Test - Comparison of Three Different Vendor Solutions

Peer-to-Peer Filtering Test - Comparison of Three Different Vendor Solutions

EANTC tested the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) filtering solutions of Cisco Systems, Ipoque and Procera Networks. The article gives you a brief overview of all results.

• Funkschau Article

EANTC's Megatest of Cisco’s IP Video Infrastructure

EANTC's Megatest of Cisco’s IP Video Infrastructure

Light Reading commissioned EANTC to independently test Cisco Systems' video infrastructure called medianet. Cisco was ready for our test of all aspects of the medianets infrastructure. Fifteen Cisco business units were involved, preparations took six months, and uncounted Cisco systems participated.

• Test Results
  1. Test Results of the Service Delivery Network
  2. Test Results of the End-User Application
  3. Test Results of the Video Data Center Components

Key Interoperability Challenges Facing the FTTx Industry

Key Interoperability Challenges Facing the FTTx Industry

Carsten Rossenhövel discussed the need for FTTx interoperability testing and possible test scenarios at the FTTx Summit in Munich, Germany.

• Presentation

Progress in MPLS & Ethernet Mobile Backhaul Transport

Progress in MPLS & Ethernet Mobile Backhaul Transport

Transport Networks for Mobile Operators in Amsterdam, Netherlands Presentation about interoperability test results of Carrier Ethernet for Mobile Backhaul networks, the migration from Mobile Backhaul to MPLS and Carrier Ethernet, opportunities and challenges.

• Presentation

The Progress of New Technologies for Packet Transport over Fixed and Mobile Networks

The Progress of New Technologies for Packet Transport over Fixed and Mobile Networks

Shared results of EANTC's latest interop tests concerning clock synchronization, Ethernet OAM Performance Monitoring, MPLS inter-carrier connectivity, and early MPLS-TP draft specifications. The results were presented at the Packet Transport Networks in Vienna.

• Presentation

The Practicality of Ethernet for Mobile Backhaul Through Interoperability Testing

The Practicality of Ethernet for Mobile Backhaul Through Interoperability Testing

MPLS and Ethernet World Congress in Paris, France Investigation of the Mobile Backhaul migration to MPLS and Carrier Ethernet including a projection of future network developments. State of the art and challenges of clock synchronization over Carrier Ethernet.

• Presentation

State of the Art in Peer-to-Peer Performance Testing

State of the Art in Peer-to-Peer Performance Testing

At the Broadband World Forum Europe in Brussels, we focused on P2P traffic to DPI detection solutions. Results include EANTC’s P2P filter testing program and results of the InternetEvolution test.

• Presentation

Multi-Vendor Carrier Ethernet Interoperability Test 2008

Multi-Vendor Carrier Ethernet Interoperability Test 2008

The results of the interoperability tests focus on Carrier Ethernet Services. The congress and our public showcase took place in Berlin this time.

• Presentation

New FTTx Evolution Project

New FTTx Evolution Project

The FTTx Summit & Home Networking Forum in Berlin, Germany focused on FTTx deployment in metro/backhaul networks. Further aspects were evolution from ATM to Ethernet backhaul and exploiting cost effective network optimization tools.

• Presentation

Read our Peer-to-peer (P2P) Test Results Summary in German

Read our Peer-to-peer (P2P) Test Results Summary in German

Both tested devices, the Ellacoya E30 and Ipoque PRX-5G, showed excellent performance and very good P2P detection and regulation capabilities.

• Funkschau Article

First Media m-Flow Video Analyzer

First Media m-Flow Video Analyzer

First Media commissioned EANTC to conduct an independent calibration test of First Media's video monitoring solution, certifying that the m-Flow system reports appropriate QoS and QoE parameters of live video streams.

• Test Report
  

Rohde & Schwarz SIT - SITLine ETH Crypto Device

Rohde & Schwarz SIT - SITLine ETH Crypto Device

The cryptology specialist Rohde & Schwarz SIT commissioned EANTC to conduct performance and interoperability tests for their new developed crypto device SITLine ETH.

• Test Report
  

Sharing Results from the Public Multi-Vendor Mobile Backhaul Interoperability Demonstration

Sharing Results from the Public Multi-Vendor Mobile Backhaul Interoperability Demonstration

IIR's Packet Transport Networks in Berlin, Germany, examined progress in interoperability between MPLS, T-MPLS and PBB-TE/PBT network clouds.

• Presentation

InternetEvolution Publishes EANTC Benchmark Test of Peer-to-peer (P2P) Filtering Devices

InternetEvolution Publishes EANTC Benchmark Test of Peer-to-peer (P2P) Filtering Devices

Internet Evolution (now InformationWeek) and SNEP commissioned EANTC for the test. It focused on large-scale carrier grade systems designed to filter vast amounts of P2P Internet traffic in real time.

• InformationWeek online

Introduction and Update from the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF)

Introduction and Update from the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF)

The IP Central Forum at CeBIT 2008 in Hanover, Germany, centered defining, standardising and certifying Carrier Ethernet.

• Presentation

Mobile Backhaul Interoperability Test Report in Germany's Funkschau Magazine 04/08

Mobile Backhaul Interoperability Test Report in Germany's Funkschau Magazine 04/08

EANTC focused its 11th interoperability test event on mobile backhaul. In the article, EANTC presents a summary of the test goals, results and provides an overview of the state of the technology.

• Funkschau Article

Carrier Ethernet World Congress in Geneva, Switzerland

Carrier Ethernet World Congress in Geneva, Switzerland

The German language magazine "Funkschau" presents EANTC's Carrier Ethernet World Congress 2007 interoperability results. The article describes the interoperability network and technical challenges.

• Funkschau Article

EANTC - Technical Coordination of OIF Interoperability Demonstration

EANTC - Technical Coordination of OIF Interoperability Demonstration

OIF members tested end-to-end provisioning of dynamically switched Ethernet services over multiple, control-plane enabled intelligent optical core networks through the use of OIF implementation agreements.

• White Paper
  

Complete End-to-end IPTV and Triple Play Solution

Complete End-to-end IPTV and Triple Play Solution

EANTC together with Light Reading and Spirent Communications released the most comprehensive test report for a complete end-to-end IPTV and Triple Play solution.

• Light Reading
  

What is MPLS Quality of Service?

What is MPLS Quality of Service?

European Broadcasting Union ( EBU) met for a conference in Geneva/ Switzerland. Which reqirements have to be be implemented for video traffic with QoS? EANTC gave a summary of its latest IPTV test and EANTC's recent experiences in video testing.

• Presentation

Carrier Ethernet

Carrier Ethernet

The German Network User Group (BGNW) conference took place in Chemnitz, Germany. Carrier Ethernet is one of the hottest topics for service providers and carriers. They are looking for solutions in triple play and business layer 2 services which reduce costs of the network.

• Presentation

Rohde & Schwarz SIT - SITLine ATM Crypto Device

Rohde & Schwarz SIT - SITLine ATM Crypto Device

The cryptology specialist Rohde & Schwarz SIT, commissioned EANTC to conduct performance and interoperability tests for their new developed crypto device SITLine ATM.

• Test Report
  

Carrier Ethernet World Congress (CEWC) in Madrid

Carrier Ethernet World Congress (CEWC) in Madrid

This German language article in the Funkschau magazine discusses the network design, test areas and provides a nice summary of the results of the event.

• Funkschau Article

Switches Comparison: Cisco Catalyst vs. Force10 TeraScale

Switches Comparison: Cisco Catalyst vs. Force10 TeraScale

The German magazine Funkschau published a monster-size test conducted by EANTC comparing Cisco Systems' Catalyst 6500 with Force10 Networks' TeraScale E-Series.

• Funkschau Article

MPLS World Congress Interoperability 2006

MPLS World Congress Interoperability 2006

The German article highlights the MPLSWC interoperability test event organized by EANTC. The report focuses on "Converged Network Services Using MPLS" and highlights such topics as MPLS Fast Reroute, Pseudowires, VPLS and H-VPLS test results.

• Funkschau Article

Catalyst 6500 with IOS Software Modularity Tested

Catalyst 6500 with IOS Software Modularity Tested

The German network magazine 'Funkschau' published EANTC's functionality and feature test of Cisco IOS Software Modularity for the Catalyst 6500 Series switches.

• Funkschau Article

Cisco Catalyst 6500 Tested with Cisco IOS Software Modularity

Cisco Catalyst 6500 Tested with Cisco IOS Software Modularity

EANTC tested the functionality and verified the new features of Cisco IOS Software Modularity for the Catalyst 6500 Series switches. Details can be found in the test report.

• Test Report
  

Cisco XR 12000 Tested

Cisco XR 12000 Tested

A detailed article of the German network magazine 'Funkschau' about the first public test of Cisco's XR 12000 Service Separation Architecture.

• Funkschau Article

Cisco XR 12000 Series Service Separation Architecture Tests

Cisco XR 12000 Series Service Separation Architecture Tests

EANTC tested scalability, robustness and functionality of the Service Separation Architecture. The expected performance confirmed Cisco's claims for logical router performance and resource independence.

• Test Report
  

Cisco Catalyst 6500 Tested

Cisco Catalyst 6500 Tested

The German network magazine 'Funkschau' published EANTC's performance, functionality and usability tests of the new firewall and content switching module from Cisco Catalyst 6500.

• Funkschau Article

IxLoad Review - Test of Cisco Catalyst 6500 with Firewall - and Content Switching Module

IxLoad Review - Test of Cisco Catalyst 6500 with Firewall - and Content Switching Module

EANTC verified Cisco's Catalyst 6500 content switching and firewall performance, using Ixia's IxLoad application. The tests were commissioned by Ixia.

• Test Report
  

MPLS Interoperability Tests

MPLS Interoperability Tests

Our latest interoperability tests were showcased at the MPLS World Congress 2005 in Paris. More than 600 participants visited the most important MPLS event in Europe.

• Funkschau Article