| ETC Series -
Ethernet Converter |
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| ETC series products offer Ethernet solutions for first and last mile applications. It works as CPE and inter-operates with major vendors’ IP routers or switches located at POPs. ETC offers to carriers demarcation and termination functions with advanced manageability. |
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| Link Side - Transport |
Uplinks with 100 Mbps or 1 Gbps fiber interfaces are offered to connect to service provider’s IP networks. Flexible SFP transceivers are used to allow transport distance up to 80 km without repeater.
Service interfaces can be either copper or fiber SFPs, enabling customer connectivity from a few meters to tens of kilometers |
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| User Side - Service Delivery |
Besides standard transport features, ETC products incorporate Ethernet service delivery functions, such as:
1.Carrier Class Service offering
| Tamper proof bandwidth limitation per port (ingress & egress)
| Separating user traffic by adding a P-VLAN tag
| Single and double VLAN tagging (Q-in-Q) per port according to IEEE802.1Q
| C-VLAN is transported transparently
| Priority marking according to IEEE802.1p
| Port-based & VLAN-based priority
| High reliability
2.Selectable (Rapid) Spanning Tree Support according to IEE802.1D/w
3.Ethernet Automatic Protection Switching (EAPS) according to RFC3619, recovering link failure <50msec |
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| Ethernet Manageability |
| Latest Ethernet management standard for first mile (EFM) per 802.3ah is also supported. Ethernet First Miles (EFM) means that Pandatel ETC products can be connected to third party switches, and service providers are able to mange Pandatel products from the switch without assigning IP address for the ETC. The EFM functions allow following: |
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1. Self Discovery - ETC products can be monitored through the 3rd party switch
2. Remote Fault Detection (RFD) - the ETC product will send a trap via 802.3ah OAM to the head end switch when it detects a fiber cut on its incoming fiber RX port
3. Link Pass Through - ETC sends a trap via 802.3ah OAM to head end switch when it detects the local UTP port is down or cable is removed. It also shuts down its own fiber transmitter port
4. Optical Link Performance Monitoring. |
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| Packaging |
Each ETC is a 3U tall card that can be either plugged into CATS 19” rack system for POP applications, or hosted in the stand-alone RA-T chassis as a customer premises equipment.
Density:
Stand-alone RA-T-V 1 per chassis
3U 19” rack RA-U up to 10 cards per chassis
6U 19” rack RA-HD up to 24 cards per chassis |
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| Network Management |
| ETC has stand-alone management as well as centralised management. It can be managed directly via 10/100BaseT port. Standard based SNMP, CLI, or web based graphic user interface are available. |
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| In-band Management |
| While other vendors require LAN access or optical supervisory channels in order to manage remotely located equipment, ETC products have built-in In-Band Remote Management without the need for LAN access or optical supervisory channels. In-Band management is achieved through carrying management information based on IP forwarding. This allows to monitor and to supervise remote equipment, especially useful for the equipment located at customer premises. |
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