Omnitron NIDs Support Y.1564

NEW YORK -- Omnitron Systems (www.omnitron-systems.com), a provider of Carrier Ethernet optical connectivity solutions, today announced that iConverter® Network Interface Devices are the first NIDs on the market to support the new ITU-T Y.1564 Ethernet service activation testing standard. Both the iConverter GM4 NID and the HybridNID™ support the Y.1564 standard, which provides mechanisms that rapidly verify the service configuration and performance of Ethernet services.

Ethernet business services, mobile backhaul and wholesale services can deliver several applications, including voice, video and business-critical data. These applications require Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and Y.1564 provides the methodologies to quickly test Ethernet services. Y.1564 is the only standardized methodology for validating of Ethernet Service Level Agreements (SLAs) in a single test and provides validation with the highest level of accuracy.

Many Carrier Ethernet equipment vendors have integrated RFC 2544 for testing Ethernet services. The Internet Engineering Task Force created RFC 2544 in 1999, but it was designed for testing new network equipment, not Ethernet services with multiple Classes of Service. RFC 2544 does not specify how to measure delay variation (jitter), so some vendors have implemented proprietary and non-standard mechanisms to overcome these limitations. Each RFC 2544 test is performed independently and in a serial process, so testing can take hours.

Omnitron Systems Technology Inc.