PLANNING AND DEPLOYING HIGH AVAILABILITY BROADBAND NETWORKS FOR MANAGED BUSINESS SERVICES

A major global enterprise-network service provider needs to deploy both metro- and regional-access rings to meet a customer’s demand for a highly reliable network to support critical ent

A major global enterprise-network service provider needs to deploy both metro- and regional-access rings to meet a customer’s demand for a highly reliable network to support critical enterprise applications This includes interconnection of its mainframe systems and storage-area networks

STRATEGY

Engage a professional services partner with in-depth technical expertise and proven experience to complete the project on-time, on-budget while delivering superior quality to meet the end customer’s needs

RESULTS

By selecting ADC Professional Services to deliver a comprehensive set

of planning and deployment services, the service provider streamlined its entire deployment process, saving both time and money while improving time-to-revenue for its managed services

PLANNING AND DEPLOYING HIGH AVAILABILITY BROADBAND NETWORKS FOR MANAGED

BUSINESS SERVICES

BUSINESS CHALLENGE

As part of its business continuity and disaster

recovery services, a major global

enterprise-network service provider developed a suite of

high-availability services to offer its customers

continuous availability to interconnect data

centers and business sites The infrastructure

included network synchronous data mirroring and

multisite fail-over server clusters In this

environment, SONET/DWDM multiplexers serve as

the interface between the optical network and

the customer’s networks The architecture is

comprised of base point-to-point and a

high-availability network ring The service allows for

various and unique data protocols carried over an

optical network

As part of its deployment efforts for a global

manufacturer of health and hygiene products,

the service provider needed to build two

high-availability network rings; one ring to serve as a

metro ring and a second to connect data

infrastructures located 90 miles apart For this

service provider, the project represented its largest

high-availability network deployment to date in

terms of the number of connected nodes Given

the complexity of the project, expertise in optical

networking and the technical resources required

to successfully complete the deployment, the

service provider chose ADC as its professional

services partner

ADC SOLUTION

ADC implemented a suite of professional services specifically tailored for high-availability network ring deployments As a Cisco Systems’ Advanced Technology Provider for optical metro transport and metro DWDM, ADC offered the service provider in-depth technical expertise with critical network components as well as extensive experience in complex multivendor, multiservice, multitechnology environments After discussions with the service provider’s network design team, ADC developed customized Engineering Design Packages (EDPs) for both rings The EDPs contained specific site details and overall ring architecture information including:

• Network diagrams

• Job information

• Site directions

• Customer deliverables

• Task list/installation notes

• Commissioning/provisioning sheets

• Test data sheets

• Diagrams for:

- Cable racks

- Fiber raceways

- Power and grounding

- Top and bottom supports

- Bay and shelf layouts

- Signal flows/fiber runs

- Cabling

- Timing

- Parallel telemetry/alarm wiring ADC also developed sets of site-specific detailed instructions for installation that included:

• Material lists

• Cable running diagrams

• Rack and shelf configurations

• External cabling configurations

• Site-specific EDP information

The final engineering documentation for the rings

were integrated into the service provider’s Ring

Design Packages, which contained all the

engineering information about the rings and

included:

• Site floor plans

• Commissioning and telemetry data

• Equipment lists

• Baseline fiber characterization and equipment

power-level information

• Commissioning and integration test

documentation

• Testing procedures

• Diagrams for:

- Physical and logical ring overviews

- Equipment elevation

- Shelves and card layout assignments

- Fiber-ring design

In addition to engineering services, ADC provided

materials management services to procure and

handle all the miscellaneous and connectivity

materials for each deployment Once these

materials were in ADC’s secured facilities, ADC

pre-assembled the nodes ADC burned-in and

tested OEM equipment, verified the software and

firmware versions and precommissioned the

nodes prior to job-site delivery

ADC also provided installation services as well as

commissioning services that included:

• Loading and verifying all the software

configurations

• Integrating all the nodes into both rings

• Adjusting optical power levels

• Configuring all the network management

levels

As a final step in the deployment process, ADC conducted tests that included:

• Network management system tests

• Optical interface tests

• Bit Error Rate measurement tests

• Synchronization integrity verification

• Protocol testing

• Far-end and graduated loop back testing

• Protocol testing

RESULTS

ADC provided the enterprise-network service provider a comprehensive package of services that helped to streamline the entire planning and deployment process By working with a single source of professional services, the service provider realized cost and time savings More importantly, ADC’s turnkey approach to high-availability network deployments ensured that the service provider could meet its commitment to its end customer to deliver 99.999 percent network availability for business continuity and

uninterruptible access to critical information

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ABOUT ADC PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

Through its Professional Services organization, ADC helps plan, deploy and maintain telecommunica-tions networks throughout the United States and Europe ADC’s unique experience in multivendor, multitechnology, multiservice solutions makes ADC the ideal choice for projects that require an in-depth, hands-on understanding of simple to complex network environments

PLANNING SERVICES

• Program and Project Management

• Network Inventory and Audit

• Engineering

DEPLOYMENT SERVICES

• Program and Project Management

• Engineering

• Material Services

• Preconfigured Equipment Solutions

• Power Services

• Installation Services

• Commissioning and Integration

• Provisioning

• Decommissioning and Removals

MAINTENANCE SERVICES

• Program and Project Management

• Service Call Center and Dispatch

• Technical Assistance Center

• Scheduled Preventive Maintenance

• Emergency Corrective Maintenance

• Field Resource Support

• Circuit Provisioning

• Logistic Services

• Spares Management

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