New MRV Gigabit Metro Ethernet Demarcation Series Enable Significant Enhancement for L2 and L3 VPN Ethernet Services
OPTISWITCH 900 Demarcation Series Increases Revenue Stream for Ethernet Carriers With Multilayer Remote Provision and Management and Dynamic QoS on Demand
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CHATSWORTH, Calif., Oct. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MRV COMMUNICATIONS, INC. (Nasdaq: MRVC), a leading provider of products and services for Metro Ethernet Demarcation and Ethernet Access, WDM and optical transport, out-of-band networking, fiber optic components, 10GE and other service aware networking solutions, today announced the OptiSwitch(R) 900 ("OS900") series, a compact, carrier-class Metro Ethernet demarcation device designed to deliver managed Fast Ethernet or Gigabit Ethernet carrier services with advanced Service Level Agreement ("SLA") for network demarcation.
The OS900 series is built on MRV's pioneering work in Ethernet demarcation and is compliant with the Metro Ethernet Forum ("MEF") services. As part of the carrier Ethernet commitment, the OS900 successfully passed the traffic management MEF 14 certification for compliance with all three services defined for Metro Ethernet, including Ethernet Private Line ("EPL"), Ethernet Virtual Private Line ("EVPL") and Ethernet LAN ("E-LAN").
The OS900 is optimized to bring cost-effective VLAN-cross-connect, enhanced L2 and L3 Ethernet switching and intelligent traffic management to network demarcation, enabling carriers to provision new Gigabit services on-demand with automated traffic management, using an innovative CoS-aware rate limit to dynamically reuse bandwidth profiles in real-time. Additionally, the OS900 allows for the future extension of an MPLS domain to the demarcation point via the tunneling of layer 2 pseudo-wire VPNs or hierarchical virtual private LAN services ("H-VPLS") for MTUs.
The OS900 demarcation series is equipped with the optimal port-count of Gigabit Ethernet customer-facing and network-facing ports. It features 10K Jumbo frames transmission, 802.3ad provider bridging (QinQ), 50ms service protection and advanced automated device management through operations, administration and maintenance ("OAM"). These innovative features help carriers isolate faults in the network, determining if the problem is on the carrier's or the customer's side of a connection.
The OS900 series is a compact system (only 1U-high and 8.45 inches wide) giving carriers the option to mount two per rack for optimal dual homing protected services. The OS900 demarcation series is currently comprised of two models: the OS910 and the OS912.
The OS910 has eight 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports for connecting to customer networks, and two SFP slots. The SFP pluggable optics offers versatile connectivity, supporting either Fast Ethernet or Gigabit Ethernet optical connectivity, including single fiber and WDM fiber-optic connections. The OS912 offers two additional optical ports.
"Through MRV's OS900 Ethernet Demarcation system, we have answered the Carriers' demands for a means to address the growing customer demand for managed Gigabit Ethernet services," said Noam Lotan, MRV president and CEO. "The introduction of the OS900 series to premium customer was easy, thanks to the OS900's ability to create new revenue streams for Carriers by offering intelligent L2VPNs and L3VPNs Gigabit demarcation services together with leading management and provision capabilities, enabling the Carrier to provide next-generation service on demand."
To provide enhanced OAM and service capabilities, the OS900 Metro Demarcation technologies include advanced real-time fiber performance monitoring on the fiber network side and cable testing on the user UNI interfaces, with performance and SLA monitoring, less than 50ms protection, hardware-based multilayer QoS protection to protect the service and the device, remote loopback on an interface level or specific VLAN, VLAN based remote sniffer, and simplified service provisioning with innovative CoS-aware rate limit to dynamically reuse bandwidth profiles. These multilayer management and service enabling functions contribute to improved efficiency, increased effectiveness and increase the revenue stream for Ethernet carriers.
Availability
The OS900 Ethernet Demarcation is available immediately from MRV's network of resellers worldwide. More information is available at www.mrv.com.
About MRV Communications, Inc.
MRV Communications, Inc. ("MRV") is a leading provider of network equipment and services, and optical components. MRV's networking business provides equipment used by commercial customers, governments and telecommunications service providers, and includes switches, routers, physical layer products and out-of-band management products as well as specialized networking products for aerospace, defense and other applications including voice and cellular communication. MRV's optical components business provides optical communications components for metropolitan, access and Fiber-to-the- Premises applications, through its wholly owned subsidiary LuminentOIC, Inc. MRV markets and sells its products worldwide through a variety of channels, including a dedicated direct sales force, manufacturers' representatives, value-added-resellers, distributors and systems integrators. MRV also has operations in Europe that provide network system design, integration and distribution services that include products manufactured by third-party vendors, as well as internally developed and manufactured products. Publicly traded since 1992, MRV is listed on the NASDAQ National Market under the symbol MRVC. For more information about MRV and its products, please call (818) 773-0900 or visit our websites at www.mrv.com and www.luminentoic.com.
Media Relations MRV Communications, Inc. David Rodewald (805) 494-9508 pr@mrv.com
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