A major European carrier will be using a telecommunications access solution from RAD Data Communications to transmit IP video coverage of the World Cup in Johannesburg, South Africa.

What makes this particular deployment newsworthy is that RAD’s RIC-E3 Fast Ethernet over E3 Network Termination Units (NTUs) will enable the IP video broadcast to be transported over a legacy SDH network. The carrier will be maintaining two separate SDH connections between Africa and Europe, one active and one redundant, in order to guarantee transmission in the event of a network failure.

The RIC-E3 NTU enables Fast Ethernet traffic to be transported over E3 access lines by providing Ethernet-to-TDM conversion. In addition, the device can be used to extend Ethernet LANs over SDH/SONET, with remote fault monitoring, end-to-end traffic separation and guaranteed quality of service (QoS).

“We are pleased that RAD equipment has been selected to bring IP video of the games to Europe,” states Ami Barayev, Ethernet Product Line Manager at RAD Data Communications.

RAD’s RIC family of NTUs, part of its EtherAccess® strategy to ensure reliable, economical, accountable, and limitless (REAL) Carrier Ethernet access, allows the extension, demarcation and concentration of Ethernet services such as IP-video over TDM networks. With rate versatility ranging from E1/T1 and bonded E1/T1 to STM-4/OC-12, EtherAccess delivers seamless mid-band Ethernet, Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet connectivity over PDH access circuits and SDH/SONET transport networks.