Synchronous Ethernet Support Makes ECS4810-12M Ideal for Mobile Backhaul Applications

Edge-Core Networks Corporation (www.edge-core.com), a professional networking solution provider offering a complete range of enterprise-level and service provider/carrier Ethernet networking equipment and services to partners around the world, today announced the launch of the ECS4810-12M, a Layer 2 Gigabit Ethernet carrier grade switch consisting of 12 Gigabit combo (RJ-45/SFP) ports, dual AC/DC power, front panel access, fanless design, and Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) support, together with an extended operating temperature range from 0C to 60C.

Ideally positioned at the edge of a broadband access network for Ethernet service demarcation, extension, and aggregation, the ECS4810-12M enables service providers to deliver high value Ethernet services. A member of Edge-Core Networks' ECS 4500 Series of innovative, cost-efficient Layer 2 Gigabit Ethernet switches, the ECS4810-12M delivers flexible Quality of Service (QoS), advanced Operation, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM), and support for extended temperature range environments among other carrier-friendly features. And because all new managed switches running EdgeCOS, Edge-Core Networks' robust, native software platform, support IPv6, the ECS4810-12M is positioned for superior performance in both today and tomorrow's networks.

Key Features and Benefits:

• Carrier-Class Design
  A carrier-grade aggregation/access switch, the ECS4810-12M offers advantages such as the ease of access with the location of all interfaces on the front panel, dual inputs for AC and DC power allows flexibility and redundancy, and a fanless design. In addition, the switch can operate in temperatures ranging from 0C to 60C, and when loss of power is detected, dying gasp support allows 200ms for the switch to notify the system administrator by SNMP trap. Further it supports SyncE (G.8232), providing high-quality clock synchronization over Ethernet ports. This is ideal for cellular operators to backhaul data and voice traffic from Base Station (BST) to the core network.
  
• IPv6 Management
  The switch supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), a suite of protocols and standards developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to replace IPv4's impending problem of IP address exhaustion. Specific benefits include dual protocol stacking, allowing IPv4 and IPv6 to co-exist in the same device and network, and tunneling, allowing IPv6 packets to traverse through legacy IPv4 networks.
  
• Service Monitoring and Management
  Support for IEEE 802.1ag Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) and IEEE 802.3ah OAM functions and mechanisms for Ethernet-based networks (ITU-T Y.1731) mean service providers can monitor end-to-end services, identify connectivity and performance issues, and isolate problems from a remote location without having to dispatch an engineer onsite. The switch also provides the capability to monitor service availability, including delayed and dropped packets, for verifying SLA conformance for billing purposes, and providing advance indication of performance degradation before a service outage occurs.
  
• Continuous Availability
  Support for G.8032 Ethernet Ring Protection Switching (ERPS) enables a network to detect and recover from incidents without impacting users. This loop avoidance allows the switch to meet the most demanding quality and continuous availability requirements--and when problems do occur, rapid recovery time is as low as 50ms.
  
• Virtual Private Network
  The ECS4810-12M supports L2 Protocol Tunneling for Spanning Tree Protocol (STP), Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP), Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP), VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP), and Per VLAN Spanning Tree+ (PVST+), with Cisco proprietary multicast address replacement. Layer 2 Protocol Data Unit (PDU) filtering allows a service provider to specify which Layer 2 PDUs are to be dropped at an ingress interface on a service provider edge switch.