Agilent Technologies' IP And Optical Routing Test Solutions to be Featured in Demos by Industry Leaders At Supercomm.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 5, 2001 Industry Leaders and Optical Internetworking Forum The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) was organized to facilitate and accelerate the development of next-generation optical internetworking products. The OIF produces Electrical, Tunable Laser, Very Short Reach Hardware Interfaces. Utilize Agilent RouterTester Systems to Showcase Advanced Networking Capabilities at Trade Show Supercomm 2001 -- IP and optical routing test solutions from Agilent Technologies This article needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :A) will help leading network equipment manufacturers and industry internetworking groups demonstrate product capabilities at Supercomm. Agilent has worked closely with eight industry leaders and the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF OIF Operation Iraqi Freedom OIF Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (French: International Organization of Francophonie) OIF Office for Intellectual Freedom (American Library Association) ) to provide Agilent RouterTester test systems, expertise and supplementary equipment and interfaces to support validation testing at the show. In addition, Agilent will showcase OC-192 bit error rate testing (BERT (Bit Error Rate Test) An analysis of network transmission efficiency that computes the percentage of bits received in error from the total number sent. ) capabilities across its family of IP and optical routing test solutions, and industry-first 10 Gb/s in-band optical routing test capabilities in demonstrations at Agilent booth no. 4432. Customers whose demos will utilize the Agilent RouterTester include: Alcatel (booth no. 717); Charlotte's Web Charlotte’s Web story of a spider who saves a young girl’s pet pig. [Am. Lit.: E. B. White Charlotte’s Web] See : Insect Networks (booth no. 4626); Cisco Systems (booth no. 5916); Hyperchip (booth no. 4569); Juniper Networks (booth no. 2455); Lucent Technologies (booth no. 4147); NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. (booth no. 4655); and Pluris (booth no. 8016). Agilent RouterTester IP testing solutions allow customers to perform complex, wire-speed traffic generation and performance testing under a wide variety of real-world traffic and network conditions, at line rates up to 10 Gb/s, including OC-192 BER (1) (Basic Encoding Rules) A set of encoding rules for ASN.1 notation, which is a method for defining data structures. See ASN.1. (2) (Bit Error Rate) The average number of bits transmitted in error. See BERT. 1. , OC-192 POS (1) See point of sale and packet over SONET. (2) "Parent over shoulder." See digispeak. POS - point of sale and 10 Gb/s Ethernet WAN testing. BER testing capabilities permit developers to verify that physical transmission links are working properly, or analyze and identify sources of errors, before testing higher-level routing protocols that operate over these connections. Additional product information can be found at www.agilent.com/comms/IPTest. Agilent Optical Routing Test Solutions will be used extensively by the OIF at its first User Network Interface (UNI) Interoperability Demonstration at booth no. 150D in the Georgia Dome; 25 companies are expected to participate. The demonstration highlights OIF's UNI Protocol that allows client devices to dynamically establish and tear down optical circuit connections. The achievement of UNI interoperability is the first step toward allowing carriers to offer advanced optical network services across multi-vendor, multi-technology networks. Agilent chaired the ad-hoc OIF Interoperability Technical Group responsible for developing the test methodology, plan and implementation for the OIF demonstration. The Agilent Optical Routing Test Solution family is the first to provide in-band testing of optical control plane protocols at 10 Gb/s transmission rates. The products support 10 Gb/s BER testing of optical transmission links, and in-band and out-of-band testing of optical control plane protocols including UNI signaling and Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching (networking) Multiprotocol Label Switching - (MPLS) A packet switching protocol developed by the IETF. Initially developed to improve switching speed, other benefits are now seen as being more important. (GMPLS (Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching) In a WDM optical networking system, it is the ability to route a data transmission based on the wavelength of light that carries it. ) extensions. Additional information is available at www.agilent.com/comms/opticaltest. Agilent in Communications Agilent Technologies is a leading provider of components, test, measurement, monitoring and management solutions for the communications industry. Agilent enables designers, manufacturers and service providers to accelerate the delivery of next-generation devices, networks and services. Agilent's broad set of solutions and services includes optical, wireless, Internet and broadband technologies that span the entire communications lifecycle. About Agilent Technologies Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) is a global technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and healthcare. With 48,000 employees serving customers in more than 120 countries, Agilent had net revenue of $10.8 billion in fiscal year 2000. Information about Agilent can be found on the Web at www.agilent.com. |
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