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Topics

• Unisource Belgium ’s profile

• Our portfolio

• The future

• Conclusions

• Q&A

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Unisource Belgium

• Unisource N.V. , founded in 1992– KPN,– Telia,– SwissCom (1993).

• AT&T-Unisource Communication Services (1995 - mid2000)

• Nov  98: 100% Subsidiary of KPN +J.V. KPN/QWEST

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Unisource Belgium

• Other Licensed Operator

• Full license agreement– Infrastructure– Voice & Data

• KPN/QWEST– Int’l strategic partner– Eunet (Internet Services)

• KPN/Orange– Mobile telephony (3rd national license)

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Topics

• Unisource Belgium ’s profile

• Our portfolio

• The future

• Conclusions

• Q&A

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Our Portfolio

• National– Data

• Frame relay services

• Managed router services

• Dial- Ip

– Voice• Uniphone (1525)

• 0800 - 0900 Services

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Our Portfolio

– Internet Services• Managed Bandwidth Access

• Managed Secure access services (firewall)

• Web Presence

• E-Commerce

– Call Centers (Marien & Gijbels)

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Our Portfolio

• International– Frame Relay & Managed router services– ATM & Broadband services– Voice Services (VPN)– Internet Services– Satellite Services– Call Centers

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Frame Relay Services

• Based on PVC through a shared packet network

• Designed for LAN interconnect (support of bursty traffic)

• 8 Points of presence in Belgium: From Charleroi, Liège, Brussels, ... To Gent, Antwerpen, Leuven, …

• A Worldwide coverage with our partners

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Managed Router Services

Frame Relay Services

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Customer routers management 24/24H 7/7D

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Global ReachGeographic coverage

6

The EuroRingsTM network: Geography

Frankfurt

L ondon

B russels

Du sseldorf

Paris

Str assburg

A ntw erp

R ot terdam

Am sterdam

Dom burg

Beverwijk

Margate

L owestoft

Elten

L ille

P oP/node

B order crossing/s ea cable sta tion

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KPN EuroRings Network

Brussels

Paris

Basel

Lyon

Geneva

Torino

Milan

Zurich

BerlinDusseldorf

Leipzig

Hamburg

Bremen

Oslo

Stockholm

London

Copenhagen

Prague

BudapestVienna

MunichStuttgart

Strasbourg

RotterdamHannover

Amsterdam

Antwerp

Frankfurt

Global ReachGeographic coverage

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Global ReachGeographic coverage

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Global ReachGeographic coverage

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Uniphone

• Voice Services– Prefix « 1525 »– CPE Based equipment– Dedicated access

• Huge discounts (20 - 40+ %) long distances and international

• and to mobile networks with dedicated access.

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Internet Services

• Managed bandwidth access

• Managed firewall Services

• Web Presence & Web catalog

• E-Commerce (with Eunet)

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Topics

• Unisource Belgium ’s profile

• Our portfolio

• The future

• Conclusions

• Q&A

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The future

NirvânaServices

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Operators View : Higher revenues

Customers view : New services

Today

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The future

…But not the same IP than today !

…And not the same Internet !

Over

For converged - merged - blended multi-services network

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Hot technologies

• Policy

• Quality of Service

• VPN/Security

• Packet telephony

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Policy

• Policies are used to provide with network resources based on:– Business priorities– Security requirements– Network capabilities

• Policies enable network to be optimized for applications

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Hot technologies

• Policy

• Quality of servicesQuality of services• VPN/SecurityVPN/Security• Packet telephonyPacket telephony

• Bind business objectives to the network infrastructure

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Quality of Service

• Every packet faces the issue of – Bandwidth– Delay & Jitter– Reliability

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Quality of Service

How do we ensure that packet arrive at its destination, and at the right “time” ?

• Today : Best effort service.

• Future : Gold Service, Silver Service, Bronze Service

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Hot technologies

• Policy

• Quality of servicesQuality of services• VPN/SecurityVPN/Security• Packet telephonyPacket telephony

• Bind business objectives to the network infrastructure

• Discrimination

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VPN/Security

• To provide on a shared public network infrastructure and targeting equivalency with a private network in terms of :– Reliability– Security– Performance,– Control

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Hot technologies

• Policy

• Quality of servicesQuality of services• VPN/SecurityVPN/Security

• Packet telephonyPacket telephony

• Bind business objectives to the network infrastructure

• Discrimination• Exploit the “shared”

network as your “private” network

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Packet telephony

NewApplications

New ways to do business

Today’s Voice & IP Networks Save $

IP-Based Circuit Emulation

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IP Telepony vs

Internet Telephony

• IP Telephony - “clone” the PSTN and have it to use TCP/IP for transport

• Internet telephony - a “service” on the internet– Value add such a web telephony, e-mail

integration, unified messaging, etc...

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Hot technologiesState of the Art

• Policy

• Quality of servicesQuality of services

• VPN/SecurityVPN/Security

• Packet telephonyPacket telephony

• LDAP V3, PKI, Radius, DHCP, DNS, ...

• DiffServ, IntServ, RSVP, MPLS, …

• L2TP, S-HTTP, IPSEC, IKE, MPLS…H.323, RTP, MGCP,...

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Topics

• Unisource Belgium ’s profile

• Our portfolio

• The future

• Conclusions

• Q&A

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Targeted Services

• IP VPN with – Class of Services: New applications– MPLS: infrastructure independent

• IP managed services– IP Voice VPN– Web Call Centers– E-commerce

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Targeted Customers

• Corporate, multinationals

• Small & Medium enterprises

• National and Int’l Public institutions

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Targeted Customers

• Residentials ?

• Local loop issue– Fiber to Home– xDSL– Cable TV– PowerLine– Wireless

• FWA

• UMTP

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Priorities

• Business driven– IP-based infrastructure (today)– IP VPN– IP managed services

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simpleOscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

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Questions ?