The amount of data being transported across internal and external business networks has grown exponentially. Increased bandwidth is also required in mobile and wireless backhaul. Service Providers see the Ethernet technology as the most cost effective and powerful solution.

However, the lack of bandwidth policing, performance and Service Level Agreement (SLA) capabilities are restricting Service Providers from deploying Ethernet technologies more aggressively. Creanord Managed Ethernet Access^TM eliminates these restrictions and unlocks the business-case for Providers.

Solution Benefits

• Reduce time and cost to roll out multi-site Carrier Ethernet services

• Deliver SLAs that surpass your customer expectations

• Centrally manage the Quality of Experience

Creanord EchoVault is a carrier-grade Service and SLA delivery platform that accelerates the Managed Ethernet Access turn-up and automates the Service Level Agreement (SLA) life cycle for leading Service Providers.

The EchoVault platform allows you to gain more revenue by introducing new and innovative Ethernet services whilst producing significant operational savings through automation.

With the assistance of Creanord your service offering can remain competitive and deliver proven quality, illustrated by solid SLA's, which meet your customers demands. You will realise the benefits immediately.

The core of the Creanord EchoVault platform is the EchoFactory which bridges the gap between the service sold and the service delivered. The flexibility of the platform is provided through open interfaces, powerful algorithms and XML driven data modelling.

Like a real world factory the platform performs the production phases according to pre-defined policies. As a result of this automation, Access Device configuration and performance reporting is guaranteed to be up-to-date throughout the service and SLA life cycle.

Creanord provides a range of robust, fast and flexible EtherNID Carrier Ethernet Demarcation Devices (EDD), also called Network Interface Devices (NID), driven by Creanord EchoAgent^TM.

When installed at the Customer Premises, the EtherNID^TM extends the management capabilities of the Carrier up to the customer’s closet. The Carrier can then precisely monitor the Ethernet service delivery (SLAs), test the circuits locally or on an end-to-end basis (SLA-Meter), and apply advanced traffic filtering, bandwidth policing (Bandwidth Policer) and monitoring (Traffic-Meter) functions.

The EtherNID^TM can also be installed in a shelf for POP or co-location CO environments to provide intermediate points of monitoring, service performance assurance and management for a series of Ethernet services. The EtherNID product line provides complete solution for Managed Ethernet Access, 10/100 Mbps or GigE, copper or fiber. The EchoAgents seamlessly connect EtherNIDs to the Creanord EchoVault service and SLA delivery platform allowing service providers to

• Mass configure and run complex SLA measurement and monitoring topologies

• Collect, consolidate and harmonize large amount of Performance measurement and other KPI data for SLA and Business Intelligence reporting

• Perform Element Management fuctions such as firmware batch-upgrades, Automate the provisioning of EtherNIDs and Log alerts and events