EXFO and CENX partner to deliver 'off-net' SLA monitoring

Provider monitoring no longer 'runs blind'

Wed. July 28, 2010

by staff from releases, additional reporting by Chris Snow

EXFO Inc. and CENX Inc. have announced a partnership that will result in deployment of off-net service-level agreement (SLA) monitoring for Carrier Ethernet services. Previously, when a service provider needed SLA monitoring to off-net locations via a partner network, their practical choices were to “run blind,” with no ability to measure, alarm and report on the Ethernet service quality to these off-net locations, or deploy customer premises monitoring equipment at each of these off-net locations.

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