Automated End-to-End Managed Service Delivery

Ciena’s industry-leading CoreDirector Multiservice Optical Switch with FastMesh® has been used for efficient and robust core switching in the world’s largest networks....

Economic Benefits of End-to-End OTN Service Switching

The unrelenting growth of bandwidth demand is causing a number of dilemmas for network operators including how best to accommodate the need to provision higher-rate circuits, both for enterprise private-line customers and for operators’ own infrastructure for higher-layer services....

The Network as a Programmable Service Delivery Engine White Paper

Service providers face the increasing need to capitalize on the paradigm shift occurring in the ways consumers and enterprises perceive and use network services and bandwidth. To remain differentiated and valuable to end-users, providers must transition networks to service-driven and highly programmable infrastructures. ...

Integrated Edge Services: The TCO Advantage

This sponsored study conducted by an independent technology research and consulting firm, Yankee Group, cites a shift among network carriers to integrated edge routing solutions such as the Ericsson SmartEdge. The report, titled “Integrated Edge Services – The TCO Advantage,” reports a total cost of ownership (TCO) of 22 percent with CAPEX and OPEX savings of 21 percent and 53 percent (respectively) of integrated solutions over multi-element solutions....

Ericsson Delivers on Carrier Ethernet Solution

IDC expects carriers that deploy intelligence closer to the edge will have more advantages to penetrate this market than those that go for a simple and cost-effective edge network. The challenge over the next five years is to deploy an intelligent network at a cost-effective price so that new services can contribute to carrier profits and not eat into them. IDC believes Ericsson is well placed to meet these demands with the SM 480 and SmartEdge platforms, both of which support multiple applications in compact and cost-effective manners....

Network Security Handbook for Service Providers

As network services migrate to IP, it is essential that they be vigilant about security. Network infrastructure must defend itself from attacks and operators must implement network security best practices. This network security handbook provides service providers with an anatomy of network security threats and a set of best practices for protecting the network. Best practices for network security architecture are defined for some of the most important services, applications, and network infrastructure including: Voice services, TV and multimedia services, Mobile networks, and service provider data centers...

Cross-Domain VPLS Deployment Strategies

VPLS is a key technology in the delivery of multipoint Ethernet service. The MPLS VPN market has seen explosive growth, and is forecast to continue growing. This increasing demand for VPLS requires a highly scalable VPLS network that supports many VPLS customers having multiple sites spread across geographically dispersed regions. A critical factor in growing a VPLS network is how well the underlying VPLS control plane scales. This white paper presents various interworking mechanisms that leverage BGP VPLS to scale VPLS implementations and augment existing LDP VPLS networks. The paper also discusses the use of BGP VPLS to extend the reach of VPLS from a single LDP-VPLS metro domain into the intermetro WAN. This scheme allows service providers to offer regional and/or national VPLS in a scalable and transparent way...

Best Practices for Video Transit on an MPLS Backbone

This paper describes how an innovative new technology called point-to-multipoint Label Switched Paths (LSPs) enables service providers to efficiently carry broadcast video (IPTV) traffic across an IP backbone. This technology can be used for distributing IPTV traffic to residential subscribers, across a private network, or within a Virtual Private Network (VPN). Combined with other recent enhancements, MPLS is now the technology of choice for converging services. With the development of point-to-multipoint LSPs and related multiplay technologies, Juniper Networks has taken a leading role in providing the tools to support the transport of all types of video - from selected content such as Video on Demand (VoD) to interactive multimedia and broadcast television - across an IP/MPLS backbone...

Successful Product Bundling Strategies for the Communications Sector

Why optimizing value creation is critical to success

Despite a dizzying rush of fresh technological innovation, old-fashioned customer development strategies remain key determinants of success in the newest round of competition between communication services providers. This white paper explores the potential of "bundling" services in the communications industry. Specifically, it addresses the implications of bundling for the customer experience and how it can impact customer lifetime value.

Opening up: How R and D is changing in the telecommunications sector today

Opening up: How R&D is changing in the telecommunications sector today investigates how technology and telecommunications firms are dealing with the process of innovation. As the rate of innovation has increased, so have the pressures and demands placed on those responsible for this R&D effort. Inevitably, this has forced them to change the way they work. This report from the Economist Intelligence Unit, aims to explore these changes in greater detail and the overall impact on the innovation process. ...

Single-Ended Data-Rate Prediction

For years, telecom service providers have measured noise power on telephone circuits to determine the quality of experience. Once the technology evolved from dial-up to DSL technologies such as discrete multitone, assessment of pair quality changed dramatically. For ADSL, ADSL2+, VDSL and VDSL2, a simple noise measurement is not enough; a more complex analysis is required to qualify the line and predict the performance of a service....

Quality of Service: Key Concepts and Testing Needs

With the increasing demand for advanced voice and video services, the traditional best-effort delivery model is no longer adequate to attract and retain premium service customers, who are essential to profitable carrier services. As network traffic increases, events such as congestion and data priority become an issue and can seriously affect traffic flows and delivery. Service providers must guarantee a predetermined level of service, regardless of traffic levels. To do so, a set of mechanisms known as quality of service (QoS) is used to prioritize and guarantee performance to support customer service-level agreements (SLAs). The objective of the application note is to introduce various concepts related to Qos and the testing needs for such mechanisms....