LONDON -- Both the Tellabs® 6325 Edge Node and the Tellabs® 6315 Metro Ethernet Node successfully demonstrated interoperability at the multi-vendor carrier Ethernet interoperability test completed by EANTC (European Advanced Networking Test Center). Following the test, Tellabs is participating at the live interoperability showcase at CEWC (Carrier Ethernet World Congress).

At the conference Tellabs also announced the Carrier Ethernet Certification by Iometrix of the Tellabs 6325 node, as well as the launch of the node’s Feature Pack 1.1.

The CEWC 2006 interoperability event verified multi-vendor Carrier Ethernet infrastructures offering business and residential services. This test explored major new MEF and IEEE standards for the first time, and implemented more advanced services in the test network. Equipment vendors verified real-world implementations of Carrier Ethernet standards and improved key interoperability aspects.

The Tellabs 6325 Edge Node is an award winning*, compact Next-Generation Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (NG-SDH) node with very high density. With FP1.1 the Tellabs 6325 node becomes part of Tellabs® AssuredEthernetSM solution as it adds another key application to its capabilities: the delivery of carrier-class data services. The Tellabs 6325 node offers hard Quality of Service (QoS) at minimum bandwidth consumption with Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS)-based Ethernet. Furthermore, the 1U high Tellabs 6325 node FP1.1 provides features expected in a fully-featured Multi-Service Provisioning Platform (MSPP) including Multiplex Section Protection (MSP) 1+1 network protection, redundant matrices, power and synchronization. All this enables carriers to cost-effectively transform the way networks are built and to offer new profitable services to end-users.

During the award ceremony on Tuesday, September 26th at the Carrier Ethernet World Congress, Iometrix test laboratories certified that the Tellabs 6325 Edge Node operating at the User Network Interface (UNI) delivers Ethernet Private Line (EPL), Ethernet Virtual Private Line (EVPL) and Ethernet-Local Area Network (E-LAN) services compliant with the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) MEF 9 and MEF 14 technical specifications. Both the Tellabs 6325 node and the Tellabs 6315 node now provide the assurance of this certification and are strong network migration solutions for carriers world-wide.

Tellabs Inc. (Nasdaq: TLAB; Frankfurt: BTLA)