The MEF, the organisation which manages Carrier Ethernet (CE) standards, has announced the first six vendors to offer 100G CE 2.0 certified products: Alcatel-Lucent, Ciena, Cisco, Coriant, Huawei, and Infinera.
In May 2015, the MEF announced expansion of the CE 2.0 Certification Program to include network equipment used for delivering E-Line and E-Access services that can be port or VLAN based up to 100 Gigabits per second. Previously, the upper limit for MEF CE 2.0 certifications was 10Gbps.
Kevin Vachon, Chief Operating Officer of the MEF, said: “In the near term, this will enable service providers to deliver standards-compliant connectivity and access solutions up to 100G to support demanding applications like data center interconnection. Over time, it also helps lay a highly scalable CE 2.0 services foundation to support dynamic, cloud centric services that will be orchestrated over more automated, interconnected networks powered by lifecycle service orchestration (LSO), software-defined networking (SDN), and network functions virtualisation (NFV).”
The testing and certification was performed by Iometrix, the network industry’s testing authority globally recognised as the official test laboratory of the MEF. Iometrix President and Founder Bob Mandeville said, “The MEF’s inaugural 100G certifications are proof-positive that service providers can now procure and deploy equipment to immediately respond to emerging customer requirements for the next level of capacity and speed, wrapped into fully compliant Carrier Ethernet E-Line and E-Access services.”
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