Carrier Ethernet Global Interconnect Demo to Premier at Light Reading's Ethernet Europe 2010

NEW YORK, April 9 /PRNewswire/ -- UBM TechWeb's Light Reading (www.lightreading.com), the largest research-led media company serving the global communications marketplace, in collaboration with EANTC AG (European Advanced Networking Test Center), the leading independent test lab, and ancotel, Europe's largest carrier interconnect company, will be announcing Phase 2 results of their Advanced Global Interconnect Test Program at Ethernet Europe on April 12 & 13 in London at the Marriott Grosvenor Square.

This service provider interoperability test and showcase program, created by EANTC in collaboration with ancotel and Light Reading, will provide detailed insight into current service offerings, and help accelerate the market. The initial phase has been concluded in February. Phase 2 results will cover the following questions:

• How to map Carrier Ethernet service offerings to those of other service providers?
• How to interconnect with many partners efficiently towards global coverage?
• How to manage a wholesale Carrier Ethernet service end-to-end, using advanced CPEs?
• How to provide and verify global service-level agreements (SLAs) across interconnects?

Interconnect sponsors at Ethernet Europe 2010 include Interconnect Switch Sponsor Alcatel-Lucent; Test and Measurement Sponsor Spirent Communications; and NID Sponsor MRV. Service Provider Participants are Belgacom ICS, Equinix, Expereo International, Level 3 Communications, P&TLuxembourg, Teragate, Tinet, and Ucomline.

To see additional Light Reading coverage on the Interconnect Demo see Light Reading's Introduction to the Demo by Carsten Rossenhoevel: http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=187892

For more information on Ethernet Europe 2010 or to register for Ethernet Europe 2010, please visit: www.etherneteurope.com

About Light Reading

Founded in 2000, Light Reading (www.lightreading.com) is the leading online media, research, and focused event company serving the $3 trillion worldwide communications market. Lightreading.com is the ultimate source for technological and financial analysis of the communications industry, leading the media sector in terms of traffic, content, and reputation. Light Reading's research arms, Heavy Reading and Pyramid Research, provide the most comprehensive communications research, market data, and technology analysis in close to 100 markets around the world. Light Reading produces nearly 20 targeted communications events including TelcoTV, and TelcoTV Asia, Ethernet Expo New York and Ethernet Europe, and The Tower Summit @ CTIA, as well as focused one-day events tailored for cable, mobile, and wireline executives in the US, Europe, India, and China. Light Reading was acquired by United Business Media in August 2005 and operates as a unit of TechWeb.

About EANTC

The European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC) offers vendor-neutral consultancy and test facilities for network equipment manufacturers, service providers, and enterprise customers. Primary business areas include interoperability, conformance, and performance testing for Carrier Ethernet, IP/MPLS, and Triple Play technologies and applications. For more information and service provider program registration contact Carsten Rossenhoevel, Managing Director, at +49.30.3180595-0 or via email at [email protected].

http://www.eantc.com

About ancotel

ancotel GmbH, founded in 1999 and headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, operates the largest and most significant telecommunications and data hub in continental Europe with more than 380 service providers co-located and interconnected in its neutral carrier hotel. As an independent company, ancotel is a leading provider of co-location services as well as managed services in the area of virtualized carrier transport and interconnection infrastructure for legacy and NGN networks, including TDM, VoIP, IP/MPLS and Carrier Ethernet. For more information contact Michael Boehlert, Director Technology & Consulting, at +49.69.750013-203 or via email at [email protected]. http://www.ancotel.com

SOURCE Light Reading