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7 7  === Editor's Note ===
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9 +{{id name="editors_note"/}}Welcome to the latest edition of the EANTC multi-vendor interoperability test report! It has been an honor for us to gather the leading network equipment manufacturers again - Arista Networks, Arrcus, Calnex Solutions, Ciena, Ericsson, H3C Technologies, Huawei Technologies, Juniper Networks, Keysight, Microchip, Nokia, and Ribbon Communications participated. In February, a team of more than 70 engineers from vendors and EANTC conducted an intense three-week test event at our lab in Berlin.
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11 -[[Carsten Rossenhoevel
12 -Co-Founder & CTO>>image:2025-02-Portrait.jpg||alt="Carsten Rossenhoevel, Co-Founder & CTO" data-xwiki-image-style-alignment="end" height="279" width="220"]]
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14 -Welcome to the latest edition of the EANTC multi-vendor interoperability test report! It has been an honor for us to gather the leading network equipment manufacturers again - Arista Networks, Arrcus, Calnex Solutions, Ciena, Ericsson, H3C Technologies, Huawei Technologies, Juniper Networks, Keysight, Microchip, Nokia, and Ribbon Communications participated. In February, a team of more than 70 engineers from vendors and EANTC conducted an intense three-week test event at our lab in Berlin.
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16 16  This year, **we split the report into a paper-based overview and a much more extensive online version. Our website has full details of all test results. Please scan the QR codes, enter the URLs displayed on this and the following pages, or browse EANTC's website** to access the individual report areas. The online report is more detailed than the printed report in previous years!
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18 18  This year, we have continued our coverage of multi-vendor interoperability of segment routing, EVPN, time synchronization, network management, and orchestration. Meanwhile, these technologies have matured considerably, albeit to different degrees (see more details in each report section). Once we had built a baseline of interoperable services between participating vendors, we focused on the latest innovations in each area - cloud data center and data center interconnect services, and advanced 5G/6G transport use case tests.
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47 47  Test combinations that did not pass are not shown in the diagrams but are referenced anonymously in the report to illustrate the current state of the industry. From our experience, vendors swiftly address interoperability issues following our tests, and we believe it's more productive to support their efforts to improve rather than penalize them for testing new solutions. Maintaining confidentiality is key to encouraging vendors to bring their latest—often still in beta—solutions to the table, ensuring a secure space for testing and learning.
48 48  The Test Results will be presented live at the 26th edition of the MPLS & SRv6 AI Net World Congress. For over 20 years, we have been showcasing interoperability tests at Upperside's conferences.
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45 +=== Participating Vendors and Devices ===
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47 +{{id name="vendors_devices"/}}Here is the list of the devices that the participating vendors installed and tested during the Hot Staging. In some cases, multiple fixed configurations of the same product families were tested, to explore different interface types or hardware options.
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51 +|=Participants|=Devices
52 +|(% rowspan="3" %)Arista Networks|7050SX3
53 +|7280R2
54 +|7280R3
55 +|(% rowspan="2" %)Arrcus|S9600-72XC
56 +|S9610-36D
57 +|(% rowspan="5" %)Calnex Solutions|Paragon-neo PAM4
58 +|Paragon-neo S
59 +|Sentinel
60 +|Sentry
61 +|SNE Ignite
62 +|(% rowspan="3" %)Ciena|5134
63 +|8140 Coherent Metro Router
64 +|Navigator Network Control Suite
65 +|(% rowspan="3" %)Ericsson|Router 6671
66 +|Router 6676
67 +|Router 6678
68 +|(% rowspan="6" %)H3C Technologies|AD-WAN
69 +|CR16000-M1A
70 +|CR16003E-F
71 +|CR16005E-F
72 +|S12500R-48Y8C
73 +|S12500R-48C6D
74 +|(% rowspan="7" %)Huawei Technologies|ATN 910C-G
75 +|ATN 910D-A
76 +|NetEngine A816
77 +|NetEngine A821
78 +|NetEngine 8000 M14
79 +|NetEngine 8000 M8
80 +|NetEngine 8000 X4
81 +|(% rowspan="13" %)Juniper Networks|ACX7024
82 +|ACX7024X
83 +|ACX7100-32C
84 +|ACX7100-48L
85 +|ACX7348
86 +|ACX7509
87 +|MX10004
88 +|MX204
89 +|MX304
90 +|PTX10002-36QDD
91 +|QFX5120-48Y
92 +|QFX5130-32CD
93 +|Cloud-Native Router (JCNR)
94 +|(% rowspan="2" %)Keysight|IxNetwork
95 +|Time Sync Analyzer
96 +|(% rowspan="2" %)Microchip|TimeProvider^^®^^ 4100
97 +|TimeProvider^^®^^ 4500
98 +|(% rowspan="6" %)Nokia|7220 IXR-D2L
99 +|7250 IXR-e2
100 +|7250 IXR-X3b
101 +|7750 SR-1
102 +|7730 SXR-1x-44s
103 +|Network Services Platform (NSP)
104 +|Ribbon Communications|NPT-2100
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106 +{{/container}}
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50 50  === Test Equipment ===
51 51  
52 52  The Spirent TestCenter generated unicast, multicast and broadcast traffic in the EVPN SR-MPLS and EVPN VXLAN test beds.
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54 54  \\The Keysight Time Sync Analyzer measured the time error between PTP-synchronized devices, analyzed synchronization signals for SyncE-synchronized devices and emulated a T-GM, T-SC, Distributed Unit (DU), and Radio Unit (RU).
55 55  \\The Keysight IxNetwork acted as a traffic generator and network emulator, emulated the IGP underlay and BGP VPN overlay, and provided a flexible packet builder.
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115 +=== [[EVPN>>doc:.EVPN.WebHome]] ===
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117 +=== [[Orchestration and Automation>>doc:.Orchestration and Automation.WebHome]] ===
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119 +=== [[SR-MPLS>>doc:.SR-MPLS.WebHome]] ===
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121 +=== [[SRv6>>doc:.SRv6.WebHome]] ===
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123 +=== [[Time Synchronization>>doc:.Time Synchronization.WebHome]] ===
124 +
57 57  === Overall Physical Test Topology ===
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61 61  [[Figure 1: Overall Physical Test Topology>>image:434507675074625537_Topology-V15.jpg||alt="Figure 1" width="550"]]
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131 +=== Conclusion ===
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133 +{{id name="conclusion"/}}This marks the conclusion of the 23rd edition of the EANTC interoperability test — the most comprehensive and long-standing multi-vendor interoperability testing series for service provider transport networks leveraging IP, Segment Routing, and (initially) MPLS. Thanks to our trusted, longstanding collaboration with Upperside Conferences, we successfully presented an increasingly expansive and sophisticated showcase at the MPLS & SDN World Congress in Paris once again this year.
134 +\\Test outcomes were distributed as follows:
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137 +* 46% in Segment Routing
138 +* 25% in EVPN
139 +* 19% in time synchronization
140 +* 10% in network management and orchestration
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142 +Amid the global expansion of standalone 5G deployments, many participating vendors focused on testing advanced 5G x-Haul scenarios utilizing SRv6 and SR-MPLS data planes, including traffic engineering policies and time synchronization.
143 +\\The results reflect a pivotal moment for the transport networking industry: Segment Routing architectures (SR-MPLS and SRv6 with EVPN) are now robust, mature, and refined. However, the industry's focus is shifting to address the needs of cloud data centers running GenAI workloads and the demands of 5G/6G-ready mobile edge services. These use cases necessitate highly scalable, reliable, and application-specific service performance.
144 +\\Simultaneously, service providers must rethink how they manage network operations centers (NOCs). The manual, network management software-assisted approaches of the past no longer keep pace with growing complexity. As network architectures mature and qualified, affordable personnel is challenging to hire, the urgency for automated network operations intensifies. While automated provisioning has long been a standard for consumer and small business services, fully autonomous networks (TM Forum AN Level 4) are now on the horizon. Such networks will leverage telemetry-based analytics, automated troubleshooting, and self-optimizing capabilities.
145 +\\In both key areas—application-specific services for AI and automated network operations—manufacturers are making rapid progress, so far sometimes with proprietary solutions. At EANTC, we advocate for the accelerated development of standards-based, interoperable solutions. Critical questions remain: How will future transport networks support supplier-independent network expansion? Will service providers retain the ability to issue RFPs for discrete components like core, aggregation, peering, and edge routers, or will they need to embrace single-vendor ecosystems to achieve automated operations? These are critical topics that we will tackle next year.
146 +\\We hope our tests offer valuable insights to network operators—including carriers, service providers, MNOs, large enterprises, and government agencies—demonstrating how to design efficient architectures and achieve seamless operations in multi-vendor network environments.
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