CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Light Reading (lightreading.com), through its partner European Advanced Networking Test Center AG (EANTC), has launched an open test program to validate performance, service scalability and power efficiency of 100Gigabit Ethernet (100GbE) router interfaces. Results for each vendor’s equipment will be revealed in a series of articles, beginning with the results of ZTE’s performance, which are available now at www.lightreading.com/zte100.

“Independent, objective equipment testing is a valuable resource for vendors trying to gain competitive advantage in the global telecom equipment market,” says Phil Harvey, Chief Editor of Light Reading. “As more and more vendors are beginning to deploy the first generation of 100Gigabit Ethernet (100GbE) interfaces for their flagship routers, EANTC and Light Reading have set up a public test program aimed to provide operators with an unbiased, empirical view of these new interfaces. This provides vendors a unique opportunity for differentiation and also offers operators a benchmark to use when evaluating vendors. Furthermore, as with other recent tests, this program is one that other media providers in the telecom industry don't have the time, resources, staff or skills to produce.”

Visit lightreading.com to read the report covering ZTE's core router performance today at www.lightreading.com/zte100. The next vendor covered in this series will be Alcatel-Lucent. Light Reading will publish those test results later this month.

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