MARTINSRIED/MUNICH, Germany and MAHWAH, N.J., June 17, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- ADVA Optical Networking today announced that it has joined international industry constituents, including many leading international telecommunications carriers and vendors, in the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF). The mission of the OIF is to foster the development and deployment of interoperable products and services, as well as promote cooperation among industry participants. As a new member of the OIF, one of ADVA's first major activities is to participate in the industry's first global joint-carrier, multi-vendor optical networking interoperability demonstration in June 2004 at the SUPERCOMM tradeshow in Chicago/Illinois, USA.
The OIF World Interoperability Demonstration is hosted by seven of the world's leading telecommunications carriers in China, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United States. The event, conducted simultaneously across three continents, highlights network interoperability solutions among the participating vendors in a multi-carrier environment. ADVA joins fourteen other leading equipment vendors to conduct interoperability testing of Ethernet-over-SONET/SDH services and the provisioning of dynamic optical networking services across multiple vendor domains.
Carriers' legacy SONET/SDH infrastructure lacks the flexibility and power to transport today's rapidly growing, high-bandwidth data traffic. Next-generation technologies like Generic Framing Procedure (GFP), Virtual Concatenation (VCAT), and the Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme (LCAS) have been standardized by the ITU-T and now make it possible. ADVA's Fiber Service Platform (FSP) 1500 system employs all three technologies and aggregates up to eight local area network (LAN), storage, and voice applications at the customer premise site and feeds them into carriers' SONET/SDH networks. The FSP 1500 is installed in Deutsche Telekom's Berlin labs as part of the OIF World Interoperability Demonstration to test Ethernet-over-SONET/SDH services and has successfully proven network interoperability. Visual displays will showcase this demonstration while the seven carrier locations conduct simultaneous network management and testing during SUPERCOMM 2004 at the OIF booth, No. 20334 in Hall A, from June 22-24 in Chicago/Illinois, USA.
"We participated in our first major live interoperability demonstration at Deutsche Telekom's Global Seamless Network Project in Berlin and Darmstadt last year. The success of that demonstration propelled us to get actively involved in this OIF demonstration opportunity with Deutsche Telekom and many of the world's other leading carriers," commented Brian P. McCann, Chief Marketing & Strategy Officer at ADVA Optical Networking. "This level of vendor and carrier cooperation is unprecedented in the industry and provides significant value in demonstrating the capabilities of new technologies and next-generation solutions."
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ABOUT THE OIF
Launched in April of 1998, the OIF is a non-profit organization with more than 170+ international member companies, including many of the world's leading carriers and vendors. As the only industry group uniting representatives from data and optical networks, the OIF helps advance the standards and methods of optical networks. OIF's purpose is to accelerate the deployment of interoperable, cost-effective and robust optical internetworks and their associated technologies. Optical internetworks are data networks composed of routers and data switches interconnected by optical networking elements.
The OIF is sponsoring the industry's first international joint-carrier, multi-vendor optical networking interoperability demonstration. The event, conducted simultaneously in China, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United States will highlight network interoperable solutions among the participating vendors employing OIF implementation agreements in a multi-carrier environment. The participating supplier and carrier companies will conduct interoperability testing of Ethernet over SONET/SDH services and dynamic optical networking services. Based on ITU-T standards for Ethernet service adaptation, the Ethernet over SONET/SDH services testing will include the GFP, VCAT, and LCAS. The dynamic optical networking interoperability testing will be based on OIF implementation agreements for UNI 1.0 release 2 and E-NNI, and will include testing of both the control and data plane. These implementation agreements are based on the ITU's requirements for automatically switched optical networks.
An overview of the event will be on display June 22-24 at SUPERCOMM 2004 in Chicago, OIF Booth No. 20334, Hall A. Additional information can be found at www.oiforum.com.
ABOUT ADVA OPTICAL NETWORKING
ADVA Optical Networking (FSE:ADV) is a leading global provider of optical networking solutions for rapid and cost-effective provisioning of high-speed data, storage, voice, and video services in the metropolitan area. ADVA's carrier-class Fiber Service Platform (FSP) product portfolio is explicitly designed to enhance services, simplify networks, and reduce the total cost of ownership. ADVA's solutions have been deployed at over 80 carriers and several thousand enterprises worldwide. ADVA's products are sold through an international network of blue-chip distribution partners in addition to its own direct sales force. For further information about ADVA, please visit our web site at www.advaoptical.com.
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