Press Releases
2008
TURIN NETWORKS’ TRAVERSE® 10 GIGABIT ETHERNET SWITCHING AND TRANSPORT MODULES RECEIVE KEY MEF CERTIFICATIONS
MEF 9 and 14 Certifications Position Turin’s Traverse as the Industry’s Most Versatile and Scalable Platform for the Transition to Carrier Ethernet
Petaluma, CA, June, 04, 2008 – Turin Networks, Inc., a leading global provider of innovative Wireless Backhaul, Carrier Ethernet and Converged Services solutions for wireline and wireless network operators, today announced that the 10 Gigabit Ethernet switching and transport modules for the company’s flagship Traverse® Multiservice Transport Switch have attained essential Carrier Ethernet certifications from the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF). By successfully achieving MEF 9 and MEF 14 certification for all three service types defined by the MEF, Turin’s Traverse is the industry’s only platform to support the full array of certified MEF-compliant Carrier Ethernet services with scalability from 1 Mbps to 10 Gigabit Ethernet, in addition to traditional SONET, SDH and PDH transport and switching with scalability from DS1/E1 up to 10Gbps OC-192/STM-64.
“Our service provider customers made it clear that MEF Carrier Ethernet certification was an essential requirement for them,” noted Bruce Miller, CTO and VP of Engineering for Turin Networks. “The scalability and versatility that we've built into our Traverse platform enabled us to meet this requirement, and to further enhance our iConnect™ for Carrier Ethernet solutions to facilitate the transition from circuit-based to a more packet-optimized infrastructure.”
MEF certification is critical as service providers seek to create networks that provide their subscribers with ubiquitous and highly reliable Carrier Ethernet services worldwide. Turin’s Traverse platform was tested by Iometrix in accordance with the MEF’s “Test Plan for Ethernet Services at the UNI”. The Traverse 10 Gigabit Ethernet Switching and Transport Modules received full MEF 9 Service certification for conformance with all three service types defined by the MEF: Ethernet Private Line (E-Line), Ethernet Virtual Private Line (EVPL) and Ethernet LAN (E-LAN), as well as MEF 14 Traffic Management conformance, which is critical for delivering differentiable service offerings with unique service level agreements.
About Turin’s iConnect for Carrier Ethernet Solutions
Turin’s iConnect for Carrier Ethernet solutions enable service providers to migrate to a packet-optimized network infrastructure that supports the delivery of the complete range of MEF-defined E-Line (point-to-point), E-LAN (multipoint-to-multipoint) and E-Tree (point-to-multipoint) Carrier Ethernet services over copper and fiber access network facilities. iConnect for Carrier Ethernet incorporates Turin’s flagship Traverse product family for service aggregation and transport in central offices, service hubs, headends, and other high capacity sites, as well as the TraverseEdge™ product family for metro access applications.
About Turin Networks
Turin Networks, Inc. is a leading global provider of Carrier Ethernet solutions for wireline and wireless network operators. Turin’s iConnect solutions address the real-world challenges for network operators providing Wireless Backhaul, Carrier Ethernet and Converged Services. These solutions have been deployed by more than 600 customers worldwide, including the top five wireless network operators in the U.S., as well as 11 of the top 17 broadband Internet providers, to increase network efficiency and capacity, and facilitate the migration to Carrier Ethernet networks. Turin is headquartered in Petaluma, California with R&D facilities in Boulder, Dallas, Boston, and Shanghai, and sales offices throughout the world. For more information, visit www.turinnetworks.com or call 707-665-4400.
About Force10 Networks
Force10 Networks develops high-performance data center solutions powered by the industry’s most innovative line of open, standards-based, networking hardware and software. The company’s Open Cloud Networking framework grants Web 2.0/portal operators, cloud and hosting providers, enterprise and special-purpose data center customers new levels of flexibility, performance, scale and automation—fundamentally changing the economics of data center networking. Force10 Networks operates globally, providing 24x7 service and support to its customer base in more than 60 countries worldwide. For more information, visit www.force10networks.com.
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