Accedian Solution Briefs.pdf

Ken Gold, Henrik Nydell, Denis Marin l Accedian PLM Team Members 09.11.13

Solution Briefs Key success factors for our customers

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Integrated Computing and Network Services Provider (Europe) • Application: Business Services

• Accedian Product: MetroNID TE™, MetroNODE CE™/NE, evolving to MetroNID GT™ & MetroNODE LT-S™

• Issue: The service provider’s current legacy platform was expensive, did not have the required performance monitoring functionality it required and only had Optical interfaces

• How we solved the problem:

• We implemented the Accedian MetroNID TE. It was used in a Hub and Spoke network and delivered the EPL/EVPL support over either optical or electrical Ethernet interfaces

• Accedian delivered scalable growth via bookended MetroNID TE with an Accedian EtherSHELF-12 in the head-end for port density

• The Solutions provides full support for Layer 2 and Layer 3 performance monitoring and Service Activation Testing, independent of the Core network technology used for backhaul (L2 or L3)

• Key Benefits:

• End-to-End OAM visibility

• Continuous service assurance

• Accelerated, remote troubleshooting

• Performance-Optimized services

• Accedian key advantages:

• Service Creation + Demarcation unit in one

• Service Assurance = Fewer truck rolls

• Service Turn-up testing capability = Reduced Effort to turn-up services

• Low latency


Integrated Computing and Network Services Provider (Europe) • Application: Business Services

• Accedian Product: MetroNID GT, MetroNODE LT-S

• Issue: The current platform (ALU/ NSN) was proprietary and difficult to add in new features added – so the platform didn’t evolve quickly enough to accommodate the new service requirements. The MetroNID GT and MetroNODE LT-S were the platforms of choice to deploy a new, ring-based, network architecture to replace their current NSN based network

• How Accedian solved the problem:

• Worked hand in hand with the customer and partner to develop the right products with the right features

• Specifically, H-QoS on the MetroNID GT, Testing of Locally Created Services, Dual VLAN

• Full support for ring based networking (G.8032v2 sub-rings off the MSP platforms)

• Full integration into Cyan Blue Planet for integrated, flow-through operations

• Key Benefits:

• Highly Resilient Access Topologies enabled by MetroNODE LT G.8032v2 Rings

– Interconnected rings provides additional survivability

• Unique ability to provide both NNI and UNI functionality

– Service aggregation and service creation in the same box

• High density/ low cost survivable access platform – 2 x 10GE + 10 x 1GE

– 4 x 10GE + 8 x 1GE


• Product Performance

• Complete solution set (1G, 10G G.8032v2 ring support)

• Accedian’s ability to work closely with customers to roll out features in the timeframe required


Integrated Computing and Network Services Provider (Europe) Network Topology


Tier 2 Mobile Operator (USA) • Application: Mobile Backhaul

• Accedian Solutions: MetroNID TE, MetroNODE CE/ NE

• Issue: A US Tier 2 mobile operator was demanding stringent performance assurance guarantees (SLA’s) from their AAV partners for transport of wireless traffic from cell sites. Network and service performance visibility, both for the AAV and the wireless carrier, was essential for this application.


• Deployed the Accedian MetroNID TE™ for cell site service termination and the Accedian MetroNODE NE™ for MSC service termination

• These two devices provided all the necessary Service Activation Testing (RFC-2544), and service performance monitoring (Y.1731) that was required by this mobile operator

• Our unique clock synchronization techniques allowed the mobile operator to have both one-way and two-way performance metrics they needed to meet their contractual obligations

• Our integration with CreaNORD provided the required customer portals for SLA management

• Our focus on interoperability allow our products to fit seamlessly into the Cisco based aggregation network

• Our FPGA architecture gave the mobile operator the assurance that issues could and would be fixed as they arose

• Key Benefits:

• Excellent visibility, for both the Carrier and customer, into the service performance

• Cost effective implementation


• Performance monitoring feature at the time of contract awarding

• Close relationship with the customer

• Accedian’s FPGA architecture allows us to address issues quickly and provide easy to integrate solutions


Tier 2 Mobile Operator (USA) Network Topology


Tier 1 Mobile Operator (Asia) • Application: Mobile Backhaul

• Accedian Solutions: V-NID™ & NanoNID™

• Issue:

• The mobile operator was looking for more visibility into its entire mobile backhaul network quality so that they could be able to secure delivery of services and simplify troubleshooting.

• The operator uses three different radio base vendors (Ericsson, NSN and Samsung). There fore they required a vendor independent performance management (PM) solution that is capable of both TWAMP-light towards Ericsson & NSN and TWAMP-control towards Samsung Radios.


• Accedian leveraged the performance management capabilities which is embedded in the Accedian V-NID™ and the Accedian NanoNID™ solutions; and the seamless interoperability capabilities with Ericsson, Samsung and NSN eNodeB’s

• Key Benefits:

• The operator was able to secure complete network coverage and obtain a neutral assessment or each vendor performance


• Full suite of solutions that deliver extremely granular performance metrics

• All Accedian solutions are vendor agnostic, so able to work with any vendor in the network

• Fully interoperable solutions


Tier 1 Mobile Operator (Asia) Network Topology


Tier 1 Mobile Operator (Asia) Network Topology


Financial Services Company (Europe) • Application: Financial Services

• Accedian Solutions: VeloCITY™ and Vision EMS™

• Issue: • This leading financial services company was looking to secure last mile reporting of service quality and bandwidth

utilization for its service offering. They reached a point in their network services where they wished to ensure that the instrumentation and management of the access network for their customers, therefore to provide a market leading user experience.

• In order to achieve this goal, in an environment where they manage their customers across multiple supplier infrastructures, they recognized that IP SLA was no longer accurate enough or granular enough for their needs to identify latency and utilization issues in a near to real time environment.

• How Accedian solved the problem: • Accedian deployed its VeloCITY FS™, as it is able to deliver the accuracy and granularity of measurements required by

the customer. Combined with Accedian’s Vision EMS™, this solution provided the customer with near to real-time updates for their management systems.

• The Accedian Plug-and-Go™ capabilities that were delivered when combining VeloCITY FS with Vision EMS delivered a low touch provisioning operation across a complex Layer 3 environment.

• Key Benefits: • Better understanding of bandwidth utilization and latency issues • Faster resolution of any issues which is critical for Financial Services • The customer is now able to upsell bandwidth services to their customers • The customer is now able to guarantee 100 msec sampling , which is a key differentiator

• Accedian key advantages: • Initial launch with 1 minute granularity with target with objective to move to finer granularities (down to 1 second). • The ability to report and graph utilization data with this level of detail will allow the customer to upsell bandwidth

services to their customers. • Being able to trace packet loss to bandwidth spikes will make the upsell and easy process and

being able to guarantee 100ms sampling of their carrier Ethernet service is a key differentiating factor in this customers service offering.


Financial Services Company (Europe) Network Topology

MetroNODE NE at aggregation Sites • PAA sessions with Customer sites (1 per device) • Bandwidth monitoring at customer site ( 1 flow) • NE to FS ratio of 1:80


Tier 1 Mobile Operator (Europe and LATAM) • Application: Mobile Backhaul

• Accedian Solutions: MetroNID GT™, Vision EMS™, MetroNODE 10GE™

• Issue:

• In the first phase of its deployment, this Tier 1 mobile operator wanted to implement ITU-T Y.1564 Service Activation Testing. For service turn-up testing the mobile operator already had a solution in place which was based on the usage of EXFO® handhelds.

• Since the current solution had a limited feature set, was rather complex and for field engineers, extremely time consuming, as they had to perform tests from cell-sites to the MSC sites, and stay on-site during these tests.

• The biggest issue was the fact that the measurement results were stored on the handhelds, with almost no export functions. Thus, this solution did not allow for easy central test result storage.


• Tests are now configured and initiated from Accedian’s Vision SP™ with pre-configured Accedian MetroNID GTs. The main use case is to be able to test multiple Layer 3 one-way reverse flows. This needs Accedian Vision SP to coordinate and ITU-T Y.1564 to support up to 8 flows. This has greatly streamlined the existing process and provided centralized results required by their operations teams.

• Key Benefits:

• Intuitive centralized operations

• Minimal effort at cell-site (reduced operations costs)

• Centralized results storage with back up and restore

• Overall more streamlined process and faster service turn-up


• Automated provisioning and centralized operation integrated with Accedian Vision EMS

• 8 simultaneous flows individually configured for each site

• Automated reverse path


Tier 1 Mobile Operator (Europe and LATAM) Network Topology


Tier 1 Mobile Operator (Europe and LATAM) Network Topology


Tier 1 Mobile Operator (Europe)

• Application: Mobile Backhaul

• Accedian Solution: V-NID™ (14000 sessions)

• Issue:

• This Tier 1 Nordic operator deploys and runs the Mobile Backhaul network as a separate business entity. This entity sells the backhaul capacity back to an internal sister company and to a mobile competitor. To safeguard this RAN sharing, and be able to provide SLA guarantees, this mobile operator monitors all radio sites 24/7.


• Deployed the Accedian V-NID solution at each RNC site, interoperating with MRV switches at each cell site (TWAMP & L2 responders )

• With the Accedian V-NID system. The radio site reflectors are integrated into the MRV OS-9xx series site switches, this integration was done by MRV upon request from the mobile operator. The Accedian V-NID’s built-in alarms are used to provide thresholds, for reporting the V-NID XML interface has been integrated into IBM Proviso.

• Key Benefits:

• Full visibility of network performance


• L2 and L3 performance monitoring

• Granular PMs facilitate trouble shooting

• Full interoperability with MRV switch

• Ease of integration with IBM proviso (leveraging built-in xml interface)


Tier 1 Mobile Operator (Europe) Network Topology

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