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  2. About OAM

    OA&M; (operations, administration, and maintenance) is a general term used to describe the processes, activities, tools, standards, etc involved with operating, administering, and maintaining any system. More commonly used in the context of computer networks or computer hardware.

  3. Quotes about OAM

    1. Unlike QoS, end-to-end OAM&P demands standardization, because all the devices in the path need to participate.
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    2. For network equipment manufacturers, it means additional new markets and opportunities, augmenting already hot-selling Carrier Ethernet equipment. For mobile operators, it means a foundation for additional efficiencies and cost-savings through implementation of Mobile-Backhaul-specific Multi-CoS performance objectives, packet and network-based synchronization, resiliency performance, and service OAM fault management.
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    2. Overture Accelerates Carrier Ethernet Innovation with Introduction of Next Generation Gigabit Ethernet Access Device (EAD)

      Explore Business News & Financial News (May 14 2013)

      Overture Accelerates Carrier Ethernet Innovation with Introduction of Next Generation Gigabit Ethernet Access Device (EAD) ...les addresses both demarcation and small aggregation applications. -- Exceptional precision -- Hardware-based OAM and exacting IEEE1588v2 implementation backed by nanosecond accuracy for mobile synchronization, precision... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   OAM   Heavy Reading   Overture Networks

    3. Service aware switch engines tracks mobile and cloud access

      Explore electronics-eetimes.com (Apr 29 2013)

      Service aware switch engines tracks mobile and cloud access ...ncluding those of variable-rate and asymmetric millimeter wave and microwave links; support of multi-operator OAM&P and Service Level Agreements for Ethernet management, enabling RAN sharing and third-party backhaul owne... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   OAM   IEEE   Metro Ethernet Forum

    4. Vitesse Gets Edgy With Carrier Ethernet

      Explore Light Reading (Apr 23 2013)

      Vitesse Gets Edgy With Carrier Ethernet ... (OAM), which Vitesse says it can provide in hardware. That eliminates the processor that would otherwise run OAM in software, theoretically making it cheaper and faster to design a system. Why this matters Vitesse has t... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   OAM   Vitesse

    5. Injecting IQ Into 10G Ethernet

      Explore OSP Magazine (Jan 21 2013)

      Injecting IQ Into 10G Ethernet ... NID should support thousands of services concurrently, as well as perform high capacity grooming of Ethernet OAM and performance monitoring sessions. Combining all of the capabilities mentioned above in a single, small ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   SLA   OAM   Heavy Reading

    6. Carrier Ethernet OAM, Part 2

      Explore Billing and OSS World (Nov 28 2012)

      Carrier Ethernet OAM, Part 2 ... as threshold definitions and notification reception can be supported. Provisioning the Ethernet services and OAM profiles can be accomplished via a user interface.  Logical elements like services, endpoints, UNIs, NNIs,... (Read Full Article)

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    7. Carrier Ethernet OAM - Part 1

      Explore Billing and OSS World (Nov 13 2012)

      Carrier Ethernet OAM - Part 1 ...d baseline, not all of the Carrier Ethernet vendors use standard MIBs and implement their own RFCs to support OAM and CFM by querying custom CLI command sets. Every service provider has a hodgepodge of systems that do di... (Read Full Article)

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    8. Medium-sized businesses buy in to Carrier Ethernet services

      Explore FierceTelecom (Nov 12 2012)

      Medium-sized businesses buy in to Carrier Ethernet services ...to maintain while the electronics used at the endpoints is mature and mass-produced. These essential Ethernet OAM standards also are now established and easily adapted to existing service provider operating practices. Me... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   OAM   ACG Research   Overture Networks

    9. Take 5 With Stan Hubbard

      Explore CEN Feature (Oct 4 2012)

      Take 5 With Stan Hubbard ...neral need to take to maximize Carrier Ethernet revenues? SH: We still need to see more progress on service OAM [operations, administration and maintenance] throughout the network. Two of the priority issues for servic... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   OAM   Heavy Reading   Metro Ethernet Forum

    10. UNSi Finishes Carrier Ethernet Expansion and Mulls CE’s Future

      Explore CEN Feature (Sep 20 2012)

      UNSi Finishes Carrier Ethernet Expansion and Mulls CE’s Future ..., so do some challenges, many of which will sound familiar to other service providers. “I would like to see OAM simplified from an implementation standpoint,” says From James Karimi, senior vice president and CTO. “It ... (Read Full Article)

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    11. Service OAM: Too Much of a Good Thing?

      Explore CEN Feature (Aug 23 2012)

      Service OAM: Too Much of a Good Thing? ...e that complexity from the service provider personnel. In that case, when they turn up a service, the related OAM configuration would come up with appropriate matching values. That’s the kind of thing we’re looking at to... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   OAM   Metro Ethernet Forum   Overture Networks

    12. Operators Expect a Slow Migration to Carrier Ethernet 2.0, Heavy Reading Finds

      Explore The Sacramento Bee (Jul 27 2012)

      ...ernet's enhanced capabilities of recent years, specifically in the aforementioned domains of interconnection, OAM and CoS." Heavy Reading's survey results suggest that network operators will take CE 2.0 seriously, says K... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   OAM   Heavy Reading   Metro Ethernet Forum

    13. Mila Deploys 10GigE and 1GigE to Meet Mobile Bandwidth Demand

      Explore tmcnet.com (Jun 11 2012)

      Mila Deploys 10GigE and 1GigE to Meet Mobile Bandwidth Demand ...ernet edge solutions with wirespeed performance, fine-grain service management and marketing leading Ethernet OAM, and Ethernet over bonded copper edge solutions that leverage the huge installed base of copper worldwide ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   OAM   Overture Networks

    14. Infonetics: Carrier Ethernet Market is Booming; MEF Announces CE 2.0

      Explore ComSoc Community (Feb 28 2012)

      Infonetics:  Carrier Ethernet Market is Booming;  MEF Announces CE 2.0 ...lti-CoS performance objectives, packet and network-based synchronization, resiliency performance, and service OAM fault management.” “For the retail service providers, it means that they can expand their footprint more e... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   SLA   OAM   IEEE

    15. MEF and Bob Metcalfe Announce Carrier Ethernet 2.0

      Explore businesswire.com (Feb 24 2012)

      ...lti-CoS performance objectives, packet and network-based synchronization, resiliency performance, and service OAM fault management.” “For the retail service providers, it means that they can expand their footprint more e... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   China Telecom   SLA   OAM

    16. MEF’s next generation Carrier Ethernet 2.0 (CE2.0)

      Explore » Connecting the Ethernet industry (Feb 24 2012)

      ... overran the network capacity very quickly). A second improvement is the ability to provide standards-based OAM tools to better measure and manage network jitter, delay, latency, etc. to maintain SLA performance requir... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   SLA   OAM   Metro Ethernet Forum

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