EtherSAM - The New Standard in Ethernet Service Testing

As Ethernet continues to evolve as the transport technology of choice, networks have shifted their focus from purely moving data to providing entertainment and new applications in the interconnected world. Ethernet-based services such as mobile backhaul, business and wholesale services need to carry a variety of applications, namely voice, video, e-mail, online trading and others. These new applications impose new requirements on network performance and on the methodologies used to validate the performance of these Ethernet services.
This application note presents EtherSAM or ITU-T Y.1564, the new ITU-T standard for turning up, installing and troubleshooting Ethernet-based services. EtherSAM is the only standard test methodology that allows for complete validation of Ethernet service- level agreements (SLAs) in a single, significantly faster test and with the highest level of accuracy.