ANDA Launches EtherProbe

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- ANDA Networks, the leader in carrier-class fiber and copper-based access network platforms, today launched its new EtherProbe™ series products, the first stand-alone Ethernet traffic monitoring and service level agreement (SLA) verification solution, fully contained within the customer network terminating equipment (NTE). Using ANDA’s new EtherProbe capabilities provides carriers with new revenue-generating Carrier Ethernet 2.0 capabilities while also reducing management OPEX and equipment CAPEX

Integrated hardware and software tools within the EtherProbe units eliminate the need for adjunct probes, remote test sets, and external data collection tools on either end of the transmission link. Service providers and enterprise end users now have a cost-effective way to remotely monitor real-time network performance, detect degradation, and automatically switch to back-up paths for their Ethernet based WAN connections.

Using ANDA’s new EtherProbe integrated NTEs, carriers benefit from intelligent end-to-end Ethernet demarcation with enhanced performance monitoring capabilities including tracking and measurement of key performance metrics such as throughput, packet loss, jitter, delay, and delay variation as just a few examples. More importantly, measurements are obtained in-line and in real time with actual customer traffic flows without disrupting their service performance. Because such metrics are readily available and accurate on a real-time basis, carriers can easily implement and enforce relevant service level agreements without having to disrupt customers’ services to run performance tests as with typical RFC2544 measurements.

“A key goal of Carrier Ethernet 2.0 is the delivery of overall management and control plane capabilities enabling service providers to rapidly order, provision, manage and bill for their Ethernet services,” said Stan Hubbard, senior analyst for Heavy Reading. “EtherProbe offers service providers end-to-end network visibility without unnecessary network elements and restores to Ethernet networks the lost visibility and performance monitoring that carriers and large enterprises had with traditional SONET/SDH TDM based networks. Operators gain the end-to-end capability to deliver superior Ethernet cost/performance backed by revenue-generating SLAs with customer-centric guarantees.”

ANDA Networks Inc.