The EtherNID ® family of packet assurance demarcation units offers service providers, mobile operators and cable MSOs a wide range of demarc solutions for demanding wireless backhaul and business services applications. Offering all common Ethernet interfaces, EtherNIDs can act as wire-speed media converters while supporting the full functionality of the ESAP ™ Ethernet Service Assurance Platform, including in-service, active and passive performance testing, intelligent layer 1-4 loopback, Ethernet service creation and SLA validation.
Based on the Fast-PAAs pure-hardware data-path architecture, EtherNIDs are ideal for demarcation and monitoring of critical real-time, transactional and 4G / WiMAX / LTE wireless backhaul applications. EtherNIDs provide microsecond measurement resolution for one-way latency and jitter, in-service RFC-2544 throughput testing, traffic statistics and monitoring of up to 100 flows or SLAs – all while traffic flows transparently through the unit. It' s a one-stop SLA solution, with EVC service creation functionality assured by the industry' s only in-line SLA-Meter ™ .