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Verizon to Demonstrate Technologies That Enable Real-Time Provisioning of Broadband Bandwidth Services

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June 16, 2009

Verizon to Demonstrate Technologies That Enable Real-Time Provisioning of Broadband Bandwidth Services

By Calvin Azuri, TMCnet Contributor


Verizon is all set to demonstrate new technologies that will enable near real-time provisioning of broadband bandwidth services in the United States. The demonstration will be held live on Friday, June 19. The keynote address will be delivered by Dr. Stu Elby, the vice president of network architecture at Verizon (News - Alert).


Verizon Communications Inc. provides broadband and other wireless and wireline communications services to mass market, business, government and wholesale customers.

The demonstration is part of the Optical Internetworking Forum's (OIF (News - Alert)) 2009 Worldwide Interoperability Demonstration -- Enabling Broadband On-Demand Services. The live demonstration will focus on control plane and data plane technologies which simplify operations for carriers and enable faster provisioning for customers. The technologies also provide the basis for broadband bandwidth-on-demand services and improved network reliability and availability.

According to Elby, it is important to highlight the collaboration of all the parties that worked to advance interoperability of control and data planes when OIF is coming to the conclusion of its 2009 broadband on-demand services demonstration. He also added that the combination of bandwidth-hungry services and delay-sensitive applications makes it imperative that the industry focus on the network mechanisms that will dynamically deliver circuit’s end-to-end.

Verizon has been participating in the test of control plane and data plane technologies with Ethernet Virtual Private Line (EVPL) services over diverse transport technologies. The technologies of participation include packet transport technologies, next-generation TDM and both wavelength and TDM transport.

Verizon has been participating in the OIF's multicarrier, multivendor interoperability tests and demonstrations for quite some time now. These tests are useful in evaluating technologies for Verizon's Just-in-Time and Bandwidth-on-Demand services. There are a total of seven test sites which are linked by virtual or real, E-NNI connections. These connections form a global test network topology. Carriers will be able to access network resources beyond their existing networks during the test phase. This ensures compatibility with multiple vendor implementations.

Verizon announced the first commercial network trial of control plane technology across multiple supplier domains in the industry in September 2008. The integration of the optical control plane with Verizon Business' (News - Alert) circuit-provisioning operations support system for dynamic flow-through and rapid provisioning of bandwidth services was demonstrated during this time.
 

Calvin Azuri is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Calvin’s articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Patrick Barnard







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