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Article: TRADE NEWS: Agilent Technologies' Test Tools to Support Leading Carrier Ethernet Vendors at Major Interoperability Demonstration.
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- Network Business Weekly
- Article date:
- October 5, 2009
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Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) announced it will provide significant test and monitoring support to the world's leading network equipment manufacturers (NEMs) here demonstrating that their Carrier Ethernet equipment can successfully interoperate.
Ethernet was originally developed for academic environments and local area networks, not for telecom transport, and consequently it lacked critical components such as a synchronization mechanism, as well as Operations, Administration and Maintenance functionality. By testing the Ethernet Synchronization Messaging Channel (ESMC) protocol against switching products in wireless backhaul applications, Agilent's ...