As part of its Carrier Ethernet 2.0 initiative, ANDA Networks announced Monday it has integrated its EtherTone access devices with real-time performance monitoring capabilities to create its EtherProbe series of network terminating equipment with embedded SLA verification.
Available for immediate release, the series includes the EtherProbe 1006 for Ethernet-over-fiber connectivity and the EtherProbe 2108 products for Ethernet-over-copper based T1/E1 circuits. ANDA has an optional no-truck roll upgrade for deployed ANDA EtherTone devices.
EtherProbe 1006 is used in Ethernet-over-fiber applications supporting up to 6 10/100/1000BT or GigE SFP connections and can monitor hundreds of flows. Flows can be defined as ports, VLANs, PBT tunnels or as granular as EVCs within defined VLANs or PBT tunnels. The EtherProbe 2108 is used for monitoring Ethernet-over-TDM (bonded T1/E1 circuits) and terminating mid-band Ethernet connections over the existing copper network or wireless backhaul circuits typically using leased line T1/E1 infrastructure.
ANDA’s EtherProbe-integrated NTEs remotely monitor real-time network performance, detect degradation, and automatically switch to backup paths for their Ethernet-based WAN connections.
EtherProbe offers carriers end-to-end Ethernet demarcation with performance monitoring capabilities, including tracking and measurement of throughput, packet loss, jitter, delay, and delay variation as just a few examples. Measurements are obtained in-line and in real time with actual customer traffic flows without disrupting their service performance. Because such metrics are available and accurate on a real-time basis, carriers can implement and enforce SLAs without having to disrupt customers’ services to run performance tests as with typical RFC2544 measurements, ANDA said.
Integrated hardware and software tools within the EtherProbe units eliminate the need for adjunct probes, remote test sets and external data collection tools on either end of the transmission link.
EtherProbe-enabled devices monitor every byte of every packet, in real time, hop-by-hop, end-to-end and can proactively inform the service provider when network performance has degraded below predetermined customer SLA levels. EtherProbe can be configured to proactively provide alarms to the service provider and/or customer via customized threshold settings, or trigger a protection switchover to an alternate path in sub50 msec for mission-critical applications requiring high up-time and network resiliency. EtherProbe provides 24 hours of data storage within the NTE, in one-second intervals and can also be integrated with popular performance management tools, element and network management systems either via standard SNMP or common data export file formats for historical trending analyses.