ConnetU
ConnetU需要一个可扩展的, reliable solution to support ongoing expansion and customer connectivity needs.
- 国家:英国
- 火狐体育手机:服务
- Solution: Data Center, 数字时代网络, 关键任务网络, 最短路径桥接
ConnetU is a London network service provider, which under its Gwhizz Networks brand offers Gigabit+ IP and Ethernet connectivity between offices, shops, homes, 数据中心和云入口, as well as network consultancy services and wholesale access to other ISPs. ConnetU needs uncompromising uptime, with a scalable business model, to support ongoing growth.
Challenges
Existing solutions from other vendors were reaching scalability limits. Port capacity and density were insufficient, with a shortage of 10GE+ interfaces. As the number of customers' virtual circuits grew, random traffic-stopping bugs were appearing in vendors’ complex MPLS implementations.
Larger boxes from the same vendors were commercially available but expensive, with no guarantee that software bugs would desist. 此外, with an increasingly complicated network topology, the incumbent fabric demanded manual map pathing to ensure traffic was taking sensible routes with path protection in place. In short, as network scale and complexity grew, the current systems were becoming unmanageable.
除了这些技术问题, ConnetU was unhappy with their previous network equipment supplier’s response to the traffic-stopping bugs, and they were increasing prices at the same time.
Action
With the deployment of a new larger metro network, port density has increased in the same physical space, matching customer demands for 10-fold increases in port capacities, without significantly higher power consumption.
部署时间, upgrade maintenance windows and human error have all decreased markedly due to a simple 最短路径桥接(SPB) fabric that is truly plug-and-play with only a few lines of configuration on each node.
自部署, there have been zero traffic-forwarding faults, and convergence times are predictably low, so that network faults are invisible to end customers. The solution has scaled as demanded, 随着季度增长, and is now deployed as a single SPB-powered fabric all the way across the London wide area metro.
Results
技术的好处
- Omni开关 deliver highly scalable wire-speed throughput with minimal configuration
- Easy to add, remove and upgrade network nodes
- Compact, high performance, lower power "pizza box" switches which can also stack for scalability
- SPB Ethernet fabric for tunnelling customer layer 2 traffic, with layer 3 IP routing
经济利益
- Cost predictability with long-term pricing framework agreement
- Short Path Bridging capabilities to improve routing with lower Total Cost of Ownership
用户体验优势
- Simple to manage and configure – from unboxing to production metro Ethernet switch in 30 minutes
- 无中断的可扩展性
- Unnoticeably fast convergence times to work around any network faults
- A sensible range of different switch models and port densities to suit all current use case scenarios
产品 & 解决方案
产品
- 阿尔卡特-朗讯 OmniVista® 2500 网络管理 System
- 阿尔卡特-朗讯 OmniSwitch® 6450 (Edge) and 6860(核心)
- 阿尔卡特-朗讯 OmniAccess®恒星AP1201 和恒星AP1221
解决方案
