A global series of events mark the conclusion of the Optical Internetworking Forum’s Worldwide Interoperability Demonstration- Enabling Broadband On-Demand Services. The demonstration, conducted in carrier labs worldwide since March of this year, culminates in a series of real-time, global network demonstrations taking place this month at iPOP in Tokyo, Japan, the OIF Carrier Lab Day at Verizon Laboratory in Waltham, MA and the IIR WDM & Next Generation Optical Networking Conference in Nice, France.

The OIF’s 4th Worldwide Interoperability Demonstration includes testing of Ethernet Virtual Private Line (EVPL) services in the control and data planes over diverse transport technologies, including both Ethernet and MPLS-based packet transport technologies. Demo results are available in a white paper at http://www.oiforum.com/public/pressroom/OIF_Demo_WP_2009.pdf

The participating vendors include Alcatel-Lucent, Ciena Corporation, Ericsson, Huawei Technologies, Marben Products, NEC Corporation of America, Nokia Siemens Networks, Sycamore Networks, Tellabs and ZTE Corporation. Test facilities, located around the world, include China Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, Orange Labs - France Telecom Group, KDDI R&D Labs, NTT, Telecom Italia and Verizon.

Live demonstrations of the global test network and presentations of the OIF interoperability results are available at several forums, including:

About the OIF

Launched in April of 1998, the OIF is the only industry group uniting representatives from data and optical networking disciplines, including many of the world's leading carriers, component manufacturers and system vendors. The OIF promotes the development and deployment of interoperable networking solutions and services through the creation of Implementation Agreements (IAs) for optical, interconnect, network processing and component technologies, and optical networking systems. The OIF actively supports and extends the work of standards bodies with the goal of promoting worldwide compatibility of optical internetworking products. Working relationships or formal liaisons have been established with the Ethernet Alliance, IEEE 802.3, IETF, ITU-T Study Group 13, ITU-T Study Group 15, IPv6 Forum, MEF, ATIS OPTXS, ATIS TMOC, Rapid I/O, TMF, UXPi and the XFP MSA Group. Information on the OIF can be found at www.oiforum.com http://www.oiforum.com.