Fixed and mobile packet networks worldwide experience sharply increasing traffic, driven by video applications, mobile data, and business services. Carriers, application service providers, and content distributors have been waiting for faster interfaces to become available. As the networking industry is about to enter the world of 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GE), EANTC and Light Reading are setting up a public test program aimed to provide operators with an unbiased, empirical view of the 100GE systems coming to the market. In the open test program, EANTC is going to validate the performance, service scalability and power efficiency of the new router interfaces. Read more »