No more trained technicians on-site. Delivering the absolute minimum OpEx, TOTAL Plug & Go makes installing our units as simple as a cable modem. Imagine integrated intelligence that senses which ports are connected and instantly flows traffic. With TOTAL Plug & Go, your MetroNID & EtherNID units take care of it. They also configure their own management settings and let you know they’re online - so you can take control and finish the job from your desk.

Once the MetroNID and EtherNID automated installation is complete you are set to go. Everything from automated RFC-2544 throughput testing to fully featured Ethernet service creation is at your disposal immediately through Creanord EchoVault. It's never been easier or faster to provide Carrier Grade Ethernet Services backed up with powerful reporting and proven SLA's.

Ethernet service creation and Service Mapping

The Creanord EchoVault's unique combination of service creation & assurance functionality provides highly scalable Ethernet services independent of network topologies or geographic distribution. To illustrate this, consider a multi-carrier, multi-technology and multi-vendor network bridging two remote customer sites that require a carrier grade E-Line service between them.

As a first step, the service provider provisions an end-to-end circuit by configuring the variety of network elements and partner-carrier interfaces between the two sites. Once the physical circuit is created, and continuity is established, NIDs are installed at the two service demarcation points, adapting the diverse enterprise IT environments that exist at each end to create a uniform service delivery endpoint.

Service Mapping

The NIDs are then configured through Creanord EchoVault to map an E-Line service between the sites. The service mapping feature allows you to per VLAN tag PUSH with mapped P-bits (based on DSCP or VLAN range). Service Mapping also allows user selected VLAN ID for tagging, as well as selection of PCP (Priority Code Point) tags (C-VLAN PCP, IP DSCP or IP precedence). Traffic conditioning functions such as per-flow rate limiting, filtering and traffic shaping are then applied to establish the bandwidth profiles specified in the customers service level agreement.

The Service Mapping Process can be seen as a two-step engine: Classification and Actions.

Classification - Performed at full Wire-speed

• MAC or IP addresses (source or destination, host or network, masks)

• Ethertype

• Class of Service, PCP (range)

• DSCP value or range

• IP protocol

• TCP/UDP port

Actions - Applied independently or in combination

• S-VLAN tagging : adds a S-VLAN tag ID to the frame (selective push)

• CoS mapping : sets S-VLAN priority: DSCP or PCP, Drop Eligibility

• Bandwidth policing : apply a bandwidth profile based on DSCP or PCP values

• Faster than a switch or router : no added delay or jitter