RAD Data Communications today announced that it has enhanced its widely deployed EtherAccess® product portfolio with a flexible, high-capacity Ethernet and legacy TDM service aggregation platform, suitable for wholesale, mobile, business, and cloud services.
The new resilient solutions ensure high-density aggregation and are purpose-built to deliver powerful traffic management, performance monitoring, timing synchronization, and demarcation for Carrier Ethernet connectivity. Supporting carrier-to-carrier interfaces, the solution scales to thousands of multi-class service flows in the access, backhaul/middle mile, or edge segments of carrier networks.
The enhanced platform consists of the following devices:
Immediately available for testing, the new products are scheduled for wider release within the next few months, and join RAD’s successful line of Carrier Ethernet demarcation devices, tens of thousands of which have been deployed by leading carriers and service providers around the world.
“No two networks are built alike, but all operators want to simplify their production and operations – and keep costs to a minimum,” says Amir Karo, Vice President of Marketing at RAD Data Communications. “We have addressed CapEx reduction by introducing our own
Ethernet ASIC, enabling us to offer cost-optimized NTUs to meet price points for mass deployment,” he explains. “We also minimize OpEx with our comprehensive service life cycle management toolbox, which includes service turn-up testing, on-going monitoring and fault management, as well as recovery,” Karo notes. “RAD’s end-to-edge platform eases service definition.”
“RAD’s expansion of its solution platform is the culmination of four generations of intensive in-house Carrier Ethernet product development, incorporating advanced technologies and the latest industry standards, while reflecting ongoing dialog with service providers as to what they require to smooth their network operations, improve efficiency and keep expenses as low as possible,” Karo concludes.
