Spark New Zealand leading the way on Carrier Ethernet

Monday, 22 June 2015, 12:19 pm
Press Release: Spark NZ

Spark New Zealand leading the way on Carrier Ethernet

Spark announces new Carrier Ethernet products alongside six Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) Carrier Ethernet (CE) 2.0 certifications

Spark New Zealand announced today that it has released new high-speed Carrier Ethernet services, and has received MEF CE 2.0 Certification for all of them – a first in New Zealand. These new services expand the offerings available from Spark Wholesale and Spark Digital, and provide more choice for business, enterprise, government, and wholesale customers, offering scalable, robust, and future-proofed high speed, dedicated connections.

Carrier Ethernet connections are high-speed connections, and Spark New Zealand’s new range offer a variety of options for management layers and speeds from 1Mbps up to 2Gbps. All these new products have received the MEF CE 2.0 certification, a globally recognised standard given to the highest performing connections, providing more certified services than any other provider in New Zealand.

Spark New Zealand has received MEF 2.0 certification for E-Access (Access-EPL and Access-EVPL), E-Line (EPL and EVPL), E-LAN (EP-LAN and EVP-LAN), meaning the Carrier Ethernet services are run with high quality equipment and conform to global best practice, increasing their compatibility with international providers, their reliability, and their scalability.

The new products and their certification is being welcomed by Spark GM Wholesale, International and Product, Lindsay Cowley, who says it puts Spark New Zealand at the head of the pack and underlines their strategic goal of having New Zealand’s bestdata network.

“This is an independent seal of approval for these new high speed connections as well as for the Spark Network. It means that our customers can have certainty of the quality of the product they’re buying” Cowley said.

Nan Chen, President of the MEF commented: “MEF CE 2.0 certification is a highly challenging and significant accreditation to achieve and represents the gold standard of deployment for the marketplace. We congratulate Spark New Zealand on such an impressive result across its full international Carrier Ethernet product range.”

Spark New Zealand’s new Carrier Ethernet platform is built on Spark New Zealand’s Optical Transport Network, arguably the largest, most resilient and efficient core data transport network in the country. Connecting into the OTN gives New Zealand business, enterprise, and government organisations seamless, ubiquitous connectivity to more cities, exchanges, and data centres than any other provider in New Zealand, as well as a number of trans-Tasman points-of-presence.

“Underpinned by the OTN and backed up by MEF CE 2.0, Spark New Zealand’s new Carrier Ethernet services ensure a scalable, robust and future proofed service offering, suitable for a huge range of business needs. I’m confident that we’re leading the way in New Zealand” Cowley concluded.

Business, Enterprise, and Government customers should contact Spark Digital (www.sparkdigital.co.nz or 0800 694 364) or their Spark Digital account manager for information on how Carrier Ethernet can work for them. Spark Wholesale customers should contact their account manager.

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