As consumers and business customers appetite for high speed Ethernet services continues to grow unabated, network operators are struggling to provide efficient Ethernet transport with reliable and secure service demarcation in the last mile. Being a layer 2 protocol, Ethernet is unable to provide the bit-by-bit OAM features demanded by the high availability of transport networks and the various IEEE initiatives such as 802.3 ah have come short of achieving this goal. Menara's solution is to extend the ITU-T G.709 OTN transport performance and OAM support carriers have come to rely on in their core networks over the last mile and into the customer premise. Menara's MSA compliant multi-rate optical pluggable transceivers offer all the necessary Ethernet Demarcation functions with the added benefit of superior OTN transport OAM features such as true bit-error-rate measurement for SLA guarantees, 100% transparency to the customer traffic for guaranteed security and privacy, and forward error correction for superior link performance.
Our products provide network operators with full OTN Demarcation functions without the need to purchase and deploy a specific Ethernet Demarcation node or a DWDM transponder at the customer premise and incur the cost of maintaining and providing it with an external DCN over its life-time. Network operators can communicate remotely with Menara's pluggable transceivers for all OAM&P communications and messaging via the OTN far-end monitoring capability. This is achieved through the OTN out of band overhead, which does not interfere with the payload Ethernet traffic. Menara's unique and elegant solution for Ethernet demarcation offers:
