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Case Study: CentraCom – An End-to-end 100G Packet and Optical Solution for Growing Network and Service Offerings INTRODUCTION During the past decade CentraCom saw the rapid growth of their residenal and business customer base. In the coming years, they expect to see connued growth in their residenal and business customer base, as well as growth in the bandwidth requirements for both groups. To accommodate this growth they required an upgrade to the core opcal and packet networks. At the same me, they wanted to ensure that their access equipment and their management soſtware had the capabilies to deliver any service in a rapidly changing service environment. MRV was able to provide soluons spanning their enre network from customer premises to provider edge that scale with customer demands, all managed under a single service orchestraon plaorm. CUSTOMER PROFILE CentraCom is an independent telecom provider founded more than 115 years ago in Utah. It is now owned by New York based LICT Corporaon that also owns 14 other independent telecommunicaons companies from New Hampshire to Oregon. CentraCom maintains the largest fiber-opc network in the state of Utah. They support more than 500 Enterprise customers as well as 10,000+ residenal customers. Service(S) offered by the cuStomer Business customers are supported over an L2VPN architecture that delivers Carrier Ethernet services. The primary residenal applicaon is Direct Internet Access (DIA). CentraCom also maintains a significant cell tower network for a major Tier 1 cellular provider. Their fiber network includes more than 1,000 route miles of backbone fiber including a 12 fiber ring in downtown Salt Lake City. CentraCom’s service offerings: business services, residenal triple play, and cellular backhaul are supported over the same fiber backbone network. 1 Applicaon challenges ● CentraCom needed to increase the resilience of their Layer 2 switching network. ● They wanted to build a future-proof network capable of growing with their customer base. ● CentraCom planned to use the latest service and network management soſtware to control operaonal costs and speed new service creaon. customer benefits ● MRV’s packet and opcal equipment enabled CentraCom to build a network that supports their current and future service requirements. ● The range of product opons from mulple 100G interfaces, to a wide selecon of NIDs, offers CentraCom the flexibility to meet unforeseen requirements. ● With Pro-Vision to orchestrate the network and services, CentraCom got the comprehensive management plaorm they required. ● Using MRV gave CentraCom one company that offered an end-to-end soluon for their network upgrade.
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Case Study: CentraCom – An End-to-end 100G Packet and Optical Solution for Growing Network and Service Offerings
IntroduCtIonDuring the past decade CentraCom saw the rapid growth of their residential and business customer base. In the coming years, they expect to see continued growth in their residential and business customer base, as well as growth in the bandwidth requirements for both groups. To accommodate this growth they required an upgrade to the core optical and packet networks. At the same time, they wanted to ensure that their access equipment and their management software had the capabilities to deliver any service in a rapidly changing service environment. MRV was able to provide solutions spanning their entire network from customer premises to provider edge that scale with customer demands, all managed under a single service orchestration platform.
CuStomer ProfIleCentraCom is an independent telecom provider founded more than 115 years ago in Utah. It is now owned by New York based LICT Corporation that also owns 14 other independent telecommunications companies from New Hampshire to Oregon. CentraCom maintains the largest fiber-optic network in the state of Utah. They support more than 500 Enterprise customers as well as 10,000+ residential customers.
Service(S) offered by the cuStomerBusiness customers are supported over an L2VPN architecture that delivers Carrier Ethernet services. The primary residential application is Direct Internet Access (DIA). CentraCom also maintains a significant cell tower network for a major Tier 1 cellular provider. Their fiber network includes more than 1,000 route miles of backbone fiber including a 12 fiber ring in downtown Salt Lake City. CentraCom’s service offerings: business services, residential triple play, and cellular backhaul are supported over the same fiber backbone network.
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Application challenges ● CentraCom needed to increase the resilience of their Layer 2 switching network.
● They wanted to build a future-proof network capable of growing with their customer base.
● CentraCom planned to use the latest service and network management software to control operational costs and speed new service creation.
customer benefits● MRV’s packet and optical equipment enabled CentraCom to build a network that supports their current and future service requirements.
● The range of product options from multiple 100G interfaces, to a wide selection of NIDs, offers CentraCom the flexibility to meet unforeseen requirements.
● With Pro-Vision to orchestrate the network and services, CentraCom got the comprehensive management platform they required.
● Using MRV gave CentraCom one company that offered an end-to-end solution for their network upgrade.
ApplicAtion chAllengeS & mAjor iSSueSCentraCom serves thousands of customers through their core high bandwidth switching nodes. They experienced a series of service outages that were traced to their 10G Ethernet switches. These Layer 2 devices lacked the purpose-built resilience required of core nodes supporting a high proportion of their customer traffic. The intermittent failure of these nodes became the impetus for their network upgrade.
CentraCom performed a thorough analysis to determine their future network needs. This enquiry revealed that going forward, two factors, 1) scalability, and 2) resilience were critical for their network design. Due to projected growth in subscribers and bandwidth, scalability became a key focus of the upgrade. Scalability included 100GE links to their optical backbone and also the ability for the nodes to support a large number of 10G ports at full line rate.
Resilience analysis encompassed hardware, software and operational systems both automated and manual. Network nodes were required to have redundancy to eliminate any single point of failure in core devices that carried aggregated customer traffic. Resilience in customer premises equipment (CPE) or network interface device (NID) was not as strict a requirement but still a factor.
The CentraCom network comprises network interface devices, high density Carrier Ethernet aggregation switching platforms, routers, and optical transport as well as connectivity to autonomous networks outside their service area. They understood the overhead cost of managing this disparate collection of equipment and sought to control it using new service management software. Therefore, software to provision and manage their network and services became an important focus of their network upgrade.
high - level deScription of mrv Solution & implementAtionMRV offered CentraCom a complete solution including packet and optical nodes. One, the OptiPacket (OP-X) line fit their need for high density Layer 2 and Layer 3 switching. Two, the OptiDriver family was able to handle all the requirements for their optical transport backbone. Three, the availability of numerous OptiSwitch models satisfied the need for a NID at the customer premises. Four, Pro-Vision presented the option of managing everything under one network management framework, enabling complete lifecycle management of all optical and packet services.
optipacket® – oP-XCore packet switching requirements were met by the OP-X line of switching platforms. With overall throughput in the OP-X4 of up to 3.2Tbps and ample density of 10GE and 100GE ports it, offered the scalability required of their core nodes. Designed for resilience, the OP-X offers redundant power, management, and supports link aggregation. As well as RSVP-TE for hardware and software resilience-in support of CentraCom’s VPLS services. To support their VPN services the, OP-X interoperates with Cisco using LDP protocols.
optidriver®The highly scalable OptiDriver optical transport platform enabled CentraCom to keep their existing ITU wavelength plan with growth potential of more than 80 wavelengths in one OD-48 chassis. Support for multiple 100GE standards gives them the flexibility to evolve their network as demands require. It also enabled them to follow the 100G technology cost curve down, as new interfaces become more common. To support an intelligent and flexible optical backbone CentraCom added ROADMs to their network, so they could grow and change their network without changing their wavelength plans. pro-vision®Managing both the optical and packet elements and offering a powerful way to create and manage services, Pro-Vision provides CentraCom a solid lifecycle service management platform upon which to create all their services. Service creation, monitoring, troubleshooting and reporting will be faster and easier with the tools built-into Pro-Vision.
Case Study: CentraCom – An End-to-end 100G Packet and Optical Solution for Growing Network and Service Offerings
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cuStomer benefitSWith MRV as the supplier for the key elements in their regional network, Centeracom had one company and one team responsible for the success of their network upgrade. This enabled them to focus their attention on customer service and growth, while being assured that any issue would be resolved quickly by the MRV team without the finger pointing that occurs in multi-vendor networks.
Since high bandwidth and future proof designs were critical to CentraCom, the flexibility of the 100G interfaces in both the optical and packet equipment gave them confidence that their network can evolve along with their customer requirements.
Support for both layer 2 and layer 3 protocols in the OptiDriver and OptiSwitch provide options for any service and any network architecture as the needs arise. Whether it is BGP peering with the core internet routers, or layer 2 Carrier Ethernet services, CentraCom can create and manage end-to-end services through the MRV packet elements.
MRV’s Pro-Vision lifecycle service orchestration software provisions and manages both the optical and packet elements in their network. It offers CentraCom the tools to 1) create new services faster, 2) proactively ensure SLA performance and report on service parameters, both real-time and historical.
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Case Study: CentraCom – An End-to-end 100G Packet and Optical Solution for Growing Network and Service Offerings
Why mrv communicAtionS? MRV’s comprehensive offering including switching, routing, optical transport and management software were key factors in the decision to select MRV for the CentraCom network. CentraCom felt that using solutions from one company to create an end-to-end service network would provide the stability and resilience they required. In addition, no compromise in feature or function was required to select MRV. The flexibility MRV offered in all the key areas, NID, switching, optical transport and management gave CentraCom the ability to offer the services they plan with the resilience they require now and into the future.
Quote “CentraCom operates a robust network backbone, therefore it is important that we choose scalable and reliable infrastructure solutions that enable us to streamline service deployments and keep an eye on SLAs,” said Kevin Arthur, Vice President of Network Operations at CentraCom. “It is rare to find a solution vendor that can support our entire packet metro network end-to-end, and that is why we trust MRV. MRV’s solutions enable us to meet the needs of any customer, anywhere throughout our network, while delivering competitive, dependable and responsive services to Utah residents and businesses.”
