InterPort™ Carrier Ethernet Software Solutions
InterPort™ Carrier Grade Ethernet (CGE) software modules address the key requirements of Carrier Grade Ethernet: OAM, resiliency, protection, and connection oriented provision. InterPort™ software solutions enable cost-effective product development for next generation networks.
InterPort™ Carrier Ethernet Software – HA Edition
The High Availability (HA) Edition of InterPort carrier Ethernet software modules provide the capability to recover from the system failure and system re-start with no impact or minimal impact of traffic. InterPort software modules including: OAM, Link OAM, RSTP/MSTP, LAG/LACP, G.8031, G.8032, all come with the HA edition.
InterPort Carrier Ethernet software modules support two types of HA:
Stateful HA: After recovery, the protocol software restarts its procedures exactly from the same configuration and stable states as before the system failure.
Stateless HA: After recovery, the protocol software restarts with the same configuration as before the system failure, but internal states are reset to the initial states defined by the protocol specification.
InterPort™ Carrier Ethernet Protocols – UNI 2.2
InterPort™ Ethernet software modules include all the protocols which support the latest Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) UNI Type 2.2 specification:
- Service OAM Module: Supports both IEEE 802.1ag and ITU Y.1731
- Link OAM Module: Supports Ethernet First Mile (EFM) IEEE 802.3ah section 57
- Link Aggregation Module: Supports Link Aggregation/LACP per IEEE 802.3ad
- E-LMI Module: Supports E-LMI per MEF 16
In addition, InterPort™ supports other important carrier ethernet protocols for protection, resiliency and fault management, including:
- EAPS Module: Supports Ethernet Path Protection per ITU G.8031
- Ethernet Ring Protection Module: Supports Ethernet Ring Protection per ITU G.8032
- RSTP/MSTP: Supports IEEE 802.1w and 802.1s
- MAC Status Protocol (MSP): Supports IEEE 802.1aj Clause 23
InterPort™ PWE3 Software
The InterPort™ PWE3 software architecture is designed to provide emulation of TDM and ATM native services over a packet switched network (PSN), such as Ethernet network. The software package is fully integrated and tested with PMC/Wintegra WinPath3 NPU and includes:
- PWE3 over Ethernet PSN control plane software
- Complete set of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to implement control plane components as defined by PWE3 specifications
- System level management API
- Data path API to WinPath3 NPU
- reference Linux OS and boot software to support TDM PWE3 (SAToP, CESoPSN, MEF.8, MFA 8, and IEEE1588)
InterPort™ Ethernet Mobile Backhaul
InterPort™ offers a software suite that addresses the key requirements of Ethernet based mobile backhaul networks defined in MEF Mobile Backhaul Implementation Agreement (MEF 22) and upcoming MEF MBH Phase 2 IA:
- MEF UNI Type 2.2 Package: Ensure Ethernet backhaul network to be UNI Type 2 compliant
- Service OAM and Link OAM: Support MEF MBH IA Phase 2 OAM requirements
- InterPort Protection Suite (LAG, EAPS, Ring Protection): Ensure resilient Ethernet backhaul network
- CoS Aware Service OAM based Performance Monitoring: Ensure proper CoS for timing synchronization (IEEE 1588v2) over Ethernet transport network
InterPort™ OAM PBB/PBB-TE
InterPort™ also offers a PBB/PBB-TE software package, which contains PBB/PBB-TE control module, Service OAM extension for:
- PBB/PBB-TE and G.8031 based PBB-TE protection module.
- PBB/PBB-TE Control Module: Supports PBB per IEEE 802.1ah and PBB-TE per IEEE 802.1Qay
- Service OAM for PBB/PBB-TE: Supports IEEE802.1ag, IEEE802.1ah and IEEE 802.1Qay
- PBB-TE ESP Protection Switching: Support IEEE 802.1Qay based on G.8031