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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thought some of you might be interest in this.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Mike Biber<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR-LU style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Luc Martens <a href="mailto:[mailto:luc.martens@excentis.com]">[mailto:luc.martens@excentis.com]</a> <br><b>Sent:</b> Montag, 19. Dezember 2011 16:16<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:latif.ladid@ipv6forum.com">latif.ladid@ipv6forum.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> FW: Successful IPv6 Interop<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR-LU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR-LU style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br>------ Doorgestuurd bericht<br><b>Van: </b>Excentis <<a href="newsletter@excentis.com">newsletter@excentis.com</a>><br><b>Beantwoorden - Aan: </b>Excentis <<a href="newsletter@excentis.com">newsletter@excentis.com</a>><br><b>Datum: </b>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:39:47 +0100<br><b>Aan: </b>Luc Martens <<a href="luc.martens@excentis.com">luc.martens@excentis.com</a>><br><b>Onderwerp: </b>Successful IPv6 Interop<br><br><span style='color:#00ACEC'><br><br> <<a href="http://www.excentis.com/index.php">http://www.excentis.com/index.php</a>> <br> <br>PRESS RELEASE <br> <br><br></span></span><b><span lang=FR-LU style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#00ACEC'>Excentis Hosted Successful IPv6 Interop for the European Cable operators<br></span></b><span lang=FR-LU style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#00ACEC'><br><b>December 19, 2011 - Ghent (Belgium) - From December 5 till 9, eighteen vendors (A10 Networks, Alcatel-Lucent, Arris, AVM, Broadcom, Casa Systems, Cisco, Compal Broadband Networks, EchoStar Europe, Hitron Technologies, Incognito Software, Intel, Juniper Networks, Kathrein, Motorola Mobility, Netgear, Technicolor, Ubee Interactive Europe) tested their IPv6 enabled CPE, CMTS, CGN and provisioning products in Excentis' labs to successfully demonstrate IPv6 interoperability and capabilities of the products.<br></b><br>For a whole week, chip and equipment vendors had a unique opportunity to test and refine the IPv6 capabilities of their equipment in the test lab of Excentis in Ghent. This event was an important milestone to demonstrate the IPv6 capabilities of EuroDOCSIS™ CPE and CMTS, Carrier Grade NAT (CGN) equipment and provisioning software that are used on cable operators' networks.<br><br>Participating vendors were:<br>• With EuroDOCSIS™ CPE: Arris, AVM, Broadcom, Cisco, Compal Broadband Networks, EchoStar Europe, Hitron Technologies, Intel, Kathrein, Netgear, Technicolor, and Ubee Interactive Europe<br>• With EuroDOCSIS™ CMTS: Arris, Casa Systems, Cisco, and Motorola Mobility<br>• With Carrier Grade NAT: A10 Networks, Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco and Juniper Networks<br>• With provisioning systems: Cisco and Incognito Software <br><br><br>Live demonstrations were organised on December 8 for cable operators in cooperation with Cable Europe Labs.<br><br>"The Cable industry has been preparing for the important and necessary transition from IPv4 to IPv6 for some time now. Due to our members’ rapid growth, Cable Europe Labs has increased our focus on validating technical solution and transition strategies. The recent interoperability event hosted by Excentis, successfully demonstrated the great strides made by key vendor partners. It is a major industry milestone”, says Peter Percosan, Managing Director of Cable Europe Labs.<br><br>"Excentis has the expertise and a fully compliant IPv6 test lab with dedicated test equipment including its ByteBlower traffic generator/analyser to support this interoperability testing. Moreover as neutral partner for the cable operator’s industry, Excentis is well positioned to bring competitors together for a successful interoperability event", says Luc Martens, CEO of Excentis. <br><br>"During the testing week, participating products achieved a high level of IPv6 interoperability", says Wim De Ketelaere, CTO of Excentis. "This event gave developers the opportunity to further refine their products and identify any remaining interoperability issues with multiple vendors' products", he continues.<br><br>"The products have been tested for IPv6 interoperability in the areas of ED2.0+IPv6, ED3.0 and eRouter. Also several IPv6 migration techniques were demonstrated successfully, like Dual-Stack Lite, NAT64/DNS64 and NAT444", Kristof Sercu, manager testing services at Excentis, concludes.<br><br><br><b>For more information, contact<br></b>Luc Martens, CEO at Excentis<br>Address: Gildestraat 8, 9000 Gent, Belgium | Phone: +32 9 269 22 91 | E-mail: <a href="info@excentis.com">info@excentis.com</a><br><br><b>About Excentis:<br></b>Excentis (<a href="http://www.excentis.com">www.excentis.com</a>), founded in May 2000, offers testing and consulting services, specialised training, and products for the telecom and ICT industry. The strongly held company values of integrity and vendor independence, combined with a well-equipped lab and proven expertise in IP, VoIP, SIP, Interactive Digital TV, network security, HFC networks, (Euro)DOCSIS™ and (Euro)PacketCable™ standards make Excentis the competence center in Europe to which cable operators, telecom operators and service providers can turn for unbiased, technical support. <br>Its consultancy ranges from architecture designs, audits and operational support to field problem solving. Excentis executes specific test programs on network components and acts as an independent company to perform certification testing for EuroDOCSIS™ and EuroPacketCable™ equipment on behalf of the European cable operators (Cable Europe Labs). The Excentis Training Centre offers standard and custom made training programs on the most recent telecommunication technologies. Excentis also develops test and monitoring products, like the ByteBlower TCP/IP traffic generator and analyzer (<a href="http://www.byteblower.com">www.byteblower.com</a>) and VoIPexaminer monitoring tool (<a href="http://www.voipexaminer.com">www.voipexaminer.com</a>). For more information, visit our website or contact us at <a href="info@excentis.com">info@excentis.com</a>.<br><br><br><br></span><b><span lang=FR-LU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#00ACEC'>EuroDOCSIS™ and EuroPacketCable™ are trademarks of Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.<br></span></b><span lang=FR-LU style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#00ACEC'><br> <br><br>Excentis, Gildestraat 8, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium <b>T</b> +32 9 269 22 91 <b>F</b> +32 9 329 31 74 <b>E</b> <a href="info@excentis.com">info@excentis.com</a><br> <br><br>This e-mail was sent to <a href="luc.martens@excentis.com">luc.martens@excentis.com</a> because you are subscribed to at least one of our mailing lists.<br> If at any time you would like to remove yourself from our mailing list, please feel free to do so by visiting our unsubscribe page <<a href="http://www.excentis.com/mailing/public/unsubscribe.php?addr=luc.martens@excentis.com">http://www.excentis.com/mailing/public/unsubscribe.php?addr=luc.martens@excentis.com</a>> .<br><br><br>------ Einde van doorgestuurd bericht</span><span lang=FR-LU><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>