RAD Data Communications has won its second consecutive Best Product award for a Carrier Ethernet Demarcation Device; this time the ETX-203A was the winner.

Dec 02, 2011 - For the second time this year RAD Data Communications has won a Best Product Award at a Carrier Ethernet World Congress event.

This latest award, for Best Carrier Ethernet Demarcation Product in Asia-Pacific, was presented at the Carrier Ethernet APAC 2011 in Singapore. The winning product is RAD’s ETX-203A Carrier Ethernet Demarcation Device.

“The ETX-203A stands out among its peers by its incomparable price-performance advantage,” said Amir Karo, Vice President of Marketing at RAD Data Communications. “This is especially relevant in APAC, where, until now, high CapEx has slowed the introduction of premium Carrier Ethernet services.”

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Speaking at the recent NetEvents 2011 APAC Press & Analyst Summit in Thailand, MEF President Nan Chen outlined the proceedings of the MEF’s last quarterly meeting for 2011, held in Singapore last month, and their particular relevance for APAC business. Key issues for the region include Carrier Ethernet Multiple Classes of Service (Multi-CoS), Ethernet mobile backhaul, and the rise of wholesale Ethernet services – and all three issues were addressed by new technical specifications progressed at the Quarterly meeting. He also announced strong support for the new MEF Carrier Ethernet Certified Professional (CECP) certification program, which is already boosting the skills availability in a highly competitive market. Nan Chen explained how the letter ballot acceptance of the MEF’s Phase 2 on Multi-CoS and Mobile Backhaul Implementation Agreements – extending MEF 23 and MEF 22 respectively – is an especially important issue for the region where, without a strong legacy network of fixed line connections, it is doubly attractive to leapfrog traditional leased line connections from cell cites to core network and go for an all-Ethernet solution. According to Infonetics’ Michael Howard: “IP/Ethernet MBH is the universally accepted solution to lower the costs of growing mobile data traffic, and to facilitate migration to next generation all-IP/Ethernet networks. This two Implementation Agreements will be especially welcome for addressing explosive growth of mobile Internet traffic, as well as pointing the way to simpler 4G migration.”

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【CNW.com.cn专稿】在近期举行的2011年度NetEvents亚太区媒体和分析师峰会期间，MEF总裁陈子湳发表演讲，对今年10月在新加坡举行的MEF 2011季度会议进程，以及与他们特别相关的亚太区业务进行了扼要介绍。该区域的主要议题包括：运营商级以太网的多等级服务(Multi-CoS)，以太网移动回程，以及崛起的以太网批发服务——而且所有这三个问题都被在季度会议上取得进展的新技术规范所解决。他同时宣布了对最新的MEF运营商级以太网认证专业人士(CECP)认证计划的强烈支持，该计划已经在高度竞争的市场中帮助提升了可用技能。

陈子湳还介绍了MEF“多等级服务”和“移动回程”两大实施协议第二阶段的投票和接纳过程，这两大协议分别扩展了MEF 23和MEF 22标准，对于没有强大传统固定线路连接的网络之地区，这是一个特别重要的问题。因此对于跨过从基站到核心网的传统专线连接，直接采用全以太网解决方案，具有双重的吸引力。

Infonetics咨询公司的Michael Howard表示：“基于IP/以太网的移动回程，在降低因移动数据流量暴涨而带来的成本、驱动下一代基于全IP/以太网的网络演进方面，成为被业界普遍接纳的解决方案。这两大实施协议在解决移动互联网流量爆炸性增长，以及以更简捷的策略向4G网络迁移方面，将大受欢迎。”

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Nan Chen, President of the MEF, talks about the good progress on the technology front and significances of new carrier Ethernet specifications.

Key issues for the APAC Market region include Carrier Ethernet Multiple Classes of Service (Multi-CoS), Ethernet mobile backhaul, and the rise of wholesale Ethernet services – and all three issues were addressed by new technical specifications progressed at the Quarterly meeting, says MEF President Nan Chen. He was speaking at the recent NetEvents 2011 APAC Press & Analyst Summit in thailand.

He also announced strong support for the new MEF Carrier Ethernet Certified Professional (CECP) certification program, which is already boosting the skills availability in a highly competitive market.

Nan Chen explained how the letter ballot acceptance of the MEF’s Phase 2 on Multi-CoS and Mobile Backhaul Implementation Agreements – extending MEF 23 and MEF 22 respectively – is an especially important issue for the region where, without a strong legacy network of fixed line connections, it is doubly attractive to leapfrog traditional leased line connections from cell cites to core network and go for an all-Ethernet solution. According to Infonetics’ Michael Howard: “IP/Ethernet MBH is the universally accepted solution to lower the costs of growing mobile data traffic, and to facilitate migration to next generation all-IP/Ethernet networks. This two Implementation Agreements will be especially welcome for addressing explosive growth of mobile Internet traffic, as well as pointing the way to simpler 4G migration.”

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Campbell, CALIFORNIA, August 26, 2011—Market research firm Infonetics Research today released excerpts from its second quarter 2011 (2Q11) Service Provider Routers and Switches vendor market share report, which tracks IP edge routers, IP core routers, carrier Ethernet switches (CES), and multiservice ATM switches.

"Alcatel-Lucent, Huawei, Juniper and even ZTE continue to take market share from Cisco in the critical IP edge segment (the sum of IP edge routers and carrier Ethernet switches). Cisco is actually doing really well, with global IP edge revenue up 12% in the second quarter of 2011, and still commands close to a third of the worldwide market. The problem is that Cisco’s competitors are growing faster: Huawei’s IP edge revenue grew 66% and Alcatel-Lucent’s 22% in 2Q11. Over the last year and a half (1Q10 to 2Q11), Cisco’s IP edge revenue share declined from a high of 41.5% to 32.2%, while its closest competitors gained between 2 and 5 percentage points of share," notes Michael Howard, principal analyst for carrier networks at Infonetics Research.

Howard adds, "Alcatel-Lucent and Huawei have end-to-end portfolio solutions for broadband and mobile networks, and, according to our surveys, many service providers see Juniper and ALU as offering competitive technology at a better price point. Meanwhile, ZTE is growing in the mobile space, particularly mobile backhaul. For these and other reasons, these manufacturers are winning big deals in the IP edge space and gaining on Cisco."

SERVICE PROVIDER ROUTER AND SWITCHES MARKET HIGHLIGHTS

• The total service provider router and switch market is up 14% sequentially to $3.8 billion worldwide
• Year-over-year, the carrier router and switch market is up 19%

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