The document discusses intelligent Ethernet demarcation and service definition. It introduces ADVA Optical Networking's Fiber Service Platform (FSP) products that provide Ethernet demarcation, extension, and aggregation capabilities. The FSP 150 uses Etherjack technology to precisely define the network boundary between a carrier and customer network and monitor services to ensure SLA compliance. Etherjack devices classify customer traffic into flows, apply bandwidth profiles, and modify tags to ensure private connections. This allows carriers to intelligently define and prioritize Ethernet services at the customer premise.

1. INTELLIGENT ETHERNET SERVICE
DEMARCATION
THE FIBER SERVICE PLATFORM For years, enterprises and carriers alike have wanted to extend Ethernet
to wide area networking since there are many advantages to be gained by
The FSP product family provides
comprehensive Optical+Ethernet having LANs and WANs share Ethernet as a single protocol. Since
networking solutions for access, Ethernet has been designed for local area networking and didn’t initially
metro core and regional networks. offer demarcation points found in traditional data services, the carrier was
ADVA Optical Networking is
focused on the needs of enterprise
left unable to identify where its network ended and the customer’s
and service provider customers network began. The resulting lack of defined network boundaries and
deploying data, storage, voice and visibility had limited Ethernet services to being best-effort services that
video applications. were unsatisfying for both customers and carriers.
Despite the weak definition of network boundaries, however, Ethernet
RELATED PRESS RELEASES
technology emerged quickly as the preferred protocol in the carrier access
PhyFlex and ADVA Optical domain. This evolution was mainly driven by carriers assigning a
Networking team to extend significantly lower cost per bandwidth to Ethernet compared to legacy
Carrier-Ethernet services
services rather than the scalability and flexibility inherently offered by the
ADVA Optical Networking’s FSP 150 Ethernet protocol. Started to be deployed in the metro and access domain
deployed by P&TLuxembourg to offer of carrier networks, Carrier Ethernet as a Layer 2 technology is foreseen
intelligent Ethernet services to replace legacy SONET/SDH networks across the entire infrastructure.
ALLIANCE PARTNERS Business challenges
The ADVA FSP is qualified by the
From the carrier’s perspective, a best-effort service is a commodity
following partner: offering, unable to support a price tag that justifies broad scale rollout.
This situation, however, is remedied with the introduction of new CFM and
OAM standards and ADVA Optical Networking’s Etherjack® technology,
which provides a precise and highly intelligent Ethernet demarcation point
between carrier and customer networks.
CERTIFICATIONS Besides the existance of clear demarcation points and the capability to
The ADVA FSP is compliant with the
monitor and troubleshoot Ethernet services end-to-end, intelligent service
following industry standards: definition is a major challenge to service providers today. Initially offering
solely bandwidth products, carriers are now required to evolve to more
intelligent Ethernet services adopting to the demands created by their
customers’ data applications. Integrated delivery of services with
differentiated Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and backhauling of multi-
service traffic from cell towers in mobile networks are only two examples
demonstrating the strong requirement for intelligent service definition.
Solution
ADVA Optical Networking features Etherjack® technology in each of its
FSP 150 demarcation and extension products. Etherjack® demarcation
comprises two primary components, each located at the customer
premise, which are key to extending Carrier Ethernet services: the
Network Interface Device (NID) and the User Network Interface (UNI).
The Etherjack® NID provides the capability to monitor service availability,
delay, jitter and dropped packets. These four parameters are critical for
verifying SLA conformance for billing purposes and providing advance
indication of performance degradation before a service outage occurs.
Carriers can make this data available to customers through a web portal
to facilitate customer network management, as is often done with Private
Line or Frame Relay services.

2. ABOUT
ADVA OPTICAL NETWORKING
Demarcation
ADVA Optical Networking (FSE:
point
ADV) is a global provider of
Carrier Customer telecommunications equipment.
network network With innovative Optical+Ethernet
transport solutions, we build the
foundation for high-speed, next-
Packet optical generation networks. Our FSP
Carrier network
transport product family adds scalability and
Dem arcation Custom er intelligence to our customers’
device equipm ent networks while removing complexity
Customer premise and cost. Thanks to reliable per-
formance for more than 15 years,
we have become a trusted partner
Figure 1: Etherjack® demarcation for more than 200 carriers and
10,000 enterprises across the globe.
The Etherjack® device’s UNI classifies services into flows or Ethernet
Virtual Circuits (EVCs). Once classified, a bandwidth profile is applied ADVA AG Optical Networking
to each flow to define the priority and bandwidth to be allocated. In Campus Martinsried
Fraunhoferstrasse 9 a
addition, Provider Bridge tag modification is performed to ensure 82152 Martinsried / Munich
that each service is treated as a private connection and is handled Germany
appropriately by the rest of the network.
ADVA Optical Networking
More importantly, locating the service UNI at the service endpoint North America, Inc.
5755 Peachtree Industrial Blvd.
enables service definition and prioritization at the point where full
Norcross, Georgia 30092
rate Ethernet is rate-limited for the lower bandwidth requirements USA
and price points of many Ethernet services.
ADVA Optical Networking
(Shenzhen) Ltd.
Benefits Room 901-917, Xi Hai Ming Zhu,
The ADVA FSP 150 product family offers a market-leading portfolio Building F
Taoyuan Road
of universal Ethernet demarcation devices for intelligent service Nanshan District
definition, monitoring and ease of operation on an unparalleled 518059 PR China
scale. Key elements are:
www.advaoptical.com
:: Multiple access port options for scalable Ethernet service
delivery from 1Mbit/s to 10Gbit/s
:: MEF-certified UNI, enabling flexible definition of intelligent FSP 150
Ethernet services Our Ethernet access solution is a
family of products that provide
:: Rich Etherjack OAM suite for performance monitoring and Ethernet demarcation, extension and
quick remote fault isolation, including IEEE 802.3ah, IEEE aggregation. Service providers
deploy the FSP 150 to deliver
802.1ag and ITU Y.1731
intelligent differentiated Ethernet
:: Synchronous Ethernet and Precision Time Protocol support for services to customer premises both
wholesale local loop bandwidth in cell tower backhaul in-region and out-of-region.
The FSP 150 enables ubiquitous
applications Ethernet service delivery across
:: Low-touch provisioning features to speed up service delivery any media, including fiber, copper,
SONET/SDH and legacy TDM lines.
timelines in remote areas Incorporating the latest OAM and
:: Redundant uplinks and temperature-hardened design for high- advanced Etherjack® demarcation
capabilities, the FSP 150 products
availability applications such as cell tower backhaul enable carriers to deliver SLA-based
:: Simple integration into secure and scalable management Ethernet services with full end-to-
end service assurance.
domains by supporting SNMPv3, SSH, HTTPS, ACL, etc.
:: Integration into a variety of leading OSS systems on the
market for cost-effective deployment and performace reporting
March 2009