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Frost & Sullivan Recognizes MRV OCS for Excellence in Carrier Ethernet Demarcation & Service Provisioning
Leading Carrier Ethernet demarcation vendor receives prestigious Frost & Sullivan Product Differentiation Excellence Award for competitive features in OptiSwitch® and true differentiation in scalability of the Pro-Vision® service management system

September 12, 2011 08:33 AM Eastern Daylight Time
CHATSWORTH, Calif.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--MRV Communications™, Inc. (Pink Sheets: MRVC) (“MRV” or the “Company”), a leading provider of optical communications network infrastructure equipment and integration and managed services, today announced that MRV Communications Optical Communications Systems™ (MRV OCS) has been recognized as a leading Carrier Ethernet demarcation vendor and honored with a Product Differentiation Excellence Award by the growth partnership company, Frost & Sullivan. Specifically, the award called out the Pro-Vision® service provisioning and network management system for its compelling ability to address critical service and element management requirements, as well as the capacity to scale for hundreds to tens of thousands of Ethernet demarcation devices. Both features are essential to the demands service providers are facing today as they ramp up their Carrier Ethernet service offerings.

“With Carrier Ethernet deployments growing and evolving to better address infrastructure upgrades and new service offerings, we knew it was important for the sophistication of the service provisioning and management system to evolve with it as well”
.Service providers are scaling their Carrier Ethernet deployments not only in terms of number of subscribers, but also the number of attributes and nature of Carrier Ethernet services. As a result, the service provisioning and management systems have also evolved to meet the new service deployment scenarios and requirements. According to Frost & Sullivan’s research in the Carrier Ethernet demarcation segment, in addition to scale, features related to service assurance and performance monitoring are proving important and essential to differentiating the different solutions currently available on the market.

MRV OCS’ Pro-Vision with zero-touch provisioning, found in the OptiSwitch® Carrier Ethernet demarcation series, offers a carrier-class service provisioning and management platform for a wide range of applications and tools to fully manage and control large-scale Carrier Ethernet networks. The graphical user interface (GUI)-based software platform enables service provisioning, monitoring and troubleshooting tasks to be performed from an easy-to-use, central network management application. This, in combination with the hardware-based Operations, Administration and Maintenance (OAM), allows MRV OCS to provide leading scalability with regards to the number of performance measurements monitored, and allows today’s communications service providers to deploy thousands of demarcation devices and a comparable amount of services with minimal effort — a feature unique to MRV OCS and a critical element to scaling services and profitable operation.

“Our research shows that Pro-Vision, with its zero-touch provisioning, high scalability, enhanced security and proactive fault management features are suited to the critical service management requirements of the Carrier Ethernet demarcation segment in the Ethernet business access network,” said Prayerna Raina, Research Analyst, Frost & Sullivan. “We feel with service providers now looking to scale their Carrier Ethernet services, it will be critical for the service provisioning and management systems to support all the features on a large scale basis. MRV OCS has proven in its deployments that its Pro-Vision service management system can support these large scale deployments.”

“With Carrier Ethernet deployments growing and evolving to better address infrastructure upgrades and new service offerings, we knew it was important for the sophistication of the service provisioning and management system to evolve with it as well,” said Dave Stehlin, Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing at MRV OCS. “We are pleased to have Frost & Sullivan honor the OptiSwitch Carrier Ethernet demarcation and Pro-Vision management system with zero-touch provisioning as not only having all the important elements of a competitive and intelligent Carrier Ethernet demarcation solution, but also for how it is meeting the needs and addressing the challenges of service providers worldwide as they scale their Carrier Ethernet deployments.”

The Frost & Sullivan Best Practices team of industry experts presents awards to companies demonstrating best practices in a variety of regional and global markets. These Best Practices Awards recognize the superior planning and execution of product launches, strategic alliances, distribution strategies, technological innovations, customer service, and mergers and acquisitions. Factors such as leadership, strategy, service, innovation, integration and development are also considered as part of the award methodology. The companies that are commended as Best Practices Award recipients are those with the diligence, perseverance and dedication required to develop a successful business plan and excel in the increasingly competitive global marketplace.

About MRV Communications, Inc.

MRV Communications, Inc. is a leading global provider of Carrier Ethernet, WDM optical transport, infrastructure management equipment and solutions, as well as network integration and managed services. MRV’s solutions enable the delivery and provisioning of next-generation optical transport and carrier Ethernet services over any fiber infrastructure. MRV provides equipment and services worldwide to telecommunications service providers, enterprises, and governments, enabling network evolution and increasing efficiency, while reducing complexity and costs. Through its subsidiaries, MRV operates R&D centers in North America and Europe, along with support centers and sales offices around the world. For more information about MRV, visit: www.mrv.com.

About Pro-Vision®

Pro-Vision® is MRV’s carrier-class service provisioning and management platform that offers service providers a wide range of applications and tools to fully manage and control large-scale Carrier Ethernet networks for converged voice, data and video networks. The GUI-based software platform allows service provisioning, monitoring and troubleshooting tasks to be performed from an easy-to-use, central network management application. Pro-Vision complements MRV’s industry-leading MEF compliant OptiSwitch 9124-410G Carrier Ethernet packet-optical aggregation platform and OptiSwitch 900 series of service demarcation devices. The software provides the ability to pre-define individual service profile components that can be used to easily build new service offerings and reduce time to revenue.

Pro-Vision state-of-the-art feature set includes rapid service creation, powerful performance monitoring and network health checking, including real-time reporting on various service and network performance metrics, port and Ethernet virtual circuit (EVC) utilization, transmission errors and quality of service (QoS) thresholds with historical reporting that can be exported. Pro-Vision also includes per-service and end-to-end fault detection tools, multi-user security levels, site-wide maintenance, zero-touch mass deployment along carrier-class scalability and high-availability. Pro-Vision supports a northbound interface for interconnection with service provider and equipment vendor operations support system (OSS) systems.

About OptiSwitch®

MRV’s OptiSwitch® family is an award-winning line of compact Carrier Ethernet switching platforms that range from the OptiSwitch 9000 metro Ethernet aggregation products to the OS900 demarcation series. OptiSwitch products offer service providers a full suite of carrier-grade Ethernet services along with high-availability, enhanced quality of service, security, TDM circuit emulation and Ethernet operation, administration and maintenance (OAM) support. This full suite of OAM tools creates flexible service awareness and rigid SLAs. OptiSwitch products meet IEEE, ITU, IETF standards and MEF specifications, offering complete control to simplify deployment and management while maintaining full interoperability and visibility into customer and provider networks.

About Frost & Sullivan

Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company, enables clients to accelerate growth and achieve best-in-class positions in growth, innovation and leadership. The company’s Growth Partnership Service provides the CEO and the CEO’s Growth Team with disciplined research and best-practice models to drive the generation, evaluation and implementation of powerful growth strategies. Frost & Sullivan leverages 50 years of experience in partnering with Global 1000 companies, emerging businesses and the investment community from more than 40 offices on six continents. To join our Growth Partnership, please visit http://www.frost.com.


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