Mplify’s Carrier Ethernet certification validates compliance with the latest Mplify standards and test requirements, confirming a service provider’s ability to deliver consistent, standards-based performance across global networks.
Mplify’s Carrier Ethernet standards define the technology-agnostic layer-2 services used by enterprises, or between access, transit, and retail service providers, for backhaul, cloud access, and multi-provider end-to-end services—for seamless on-net and off-net connectivity—supporting both traditional enterprise and AI-driven applications across multi-provider environments.
Carrier Ethernet Certification Service Profiles:
Mplify’s Carrier Ethernet certification covers services optimized for both AI-driven and business use cases:
Mplify’s Carrier Ethernet Certification for Services validates performance excellence, provides competitive differentiation, and enables service providers to establish a standards-compliant presence within a federation of automated networks.
All certified services and their providers are listed in the Services Certification Registry
Mplify’s certification tests the functional attributes, bandwidth, and performance profiles, efficiency, and uptime—defining whether a Carrier Ethernet service is optimized for AI-driven workloads or traditional enterprise environments.
Maximum Frame Size: ≥ 1522 B, 1526 B
Bandwidth: Symmetrical, Asymmetrical
Information Rate & Burst Size: Committed, Best Effort
Tolerance: CIR & EIR: +/- 2%, CBS & EBS: +/- 5%
Performance Tier: PT0.3, PT1, PT2, PT3, PT4, PT5
CoS Label: High, Medium, Low
Performance Objectives:
Not tested
Not tested
Maximum Frame Size: ≥ 9400 B
Bandwidth: Symmetrical
Information Rate & Burst Size: Committed
Tolerance: CIR & EIR: +/- 1%, CBS & EBS: +/- 1%
Performance Tier: PT0.3
CoS Label: High
Performance Objectives:
Max Throughput Speed: ≥ 99 % of EI Speed
Uptime Percentage: ≥ 99.999 %
Supports data-intensive, latency-sensitive AI applications that require predictable, high-throughput transport across distributed environments.
Carrier Ethernet can guarantee the highest performance for connecting subscriber premises running AI applications to AI Edge Providers.
AI apps for industrial automation or high-frequency trading require the predictability and the performance delivered by Carrier Ethernet for inference and real-time control.
E-Line, Access E-Line, Transit E-Line
Carrier Ethernet provides the perfect balance between the high-performance demands of AI and the practical needs of a global, scalable network.
Carrier Ethernet is the optimal transport technology for interconnecting AI Edge to AI Data Centers.
E-Line, Access E-Line, Transit E-Line
Carrier Ethernet is a high performance, cost-effective solution for AI Data Center to Data Center Interconnections.
Large number of Data Centers already have Carrier Ethernet ENNIs in place with one another.
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Enables reliable, secure, and high-performance connectivity for enterprise applications, cloud access, and inter-provider services.
Carrier Ethernet is ideal to interconnect corporate sites like headquarters to branch offices, offering predictable, private, and scalable connectivity.
E-Line, E-LAN, E-Tree, Access E-Line
Carrier Ethernet offers tremendous operational simplicity, predictability and ubiquity which makes it optimal for connecting enterprises to remote cloud resources or for service providers to extend their footprint.
E-Line, E-LAN, Access E-Line
Carrier Ethernet connectivity delivers the perfect combination of high performance, and security that traditional Data Center inter-connections are demanding.
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