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Carrier Networks
Revenue Architecture
Carriers achieve revenue by delivering services, extending service reach or diversifying service options. Naturally, the ultimate revenue architecture does all three. Carriers must find ways to reduce operating expenses, generate new markets, and evolve with market requirements towards these three goals.
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Aggregation Economics: Cost benefits of extended management capabilities and decentralized critical infrastructure |
Yes |
Yes |
Maximized Service Efficiency with VCAT LCAS technology |
Yes |
Yes |
CPE Style Provisioning for consumer product delivery |
Yes |
Yes |
Feature and Service Transparency (same level service across metro and regional), challenging the SOE cost paradigm |
Yes |
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At the consumer doorstep, the Carrier Service Provider requires flexible service interface options from sub-DS0 to GigE Ethernet, Public Internet and Corporate LAN. This interfacing should be scaleable, conducive to increments and instantly deployable with remote management and diagnostics capabilities so that the customer experience is smooth and hassle-free.
In a bid to enhance optical transport networks to meet the market requirements for both TDM and high bandwidth IP packet services, Carriers have gravitated towards multiservice provisioning platforms. The consolidation of network elements into a single, managed unit is a natural extension of this principle. At the same time, Carriers are requiring that new products seamlessly integrate with existing SONET/SDH infrastructure and interoperate with emerging Carrier Ethernet and IP/MPLS frameworks. It is expected that the delivery of these high-value services over a flexible converged architecture be optimized by way of switching, multiplexing, cross-connect and grooming capabilities.
Finally, setting aside the possibilities presented by wireless infrastructure, Carriers are confronted with the challenge of extending a network's reach without incurring the massive capital and operational deficits associated with "Standard Operating Environment" rollouts.
Haliplex Solutions
Customer Products
Corporate service delivery is the first point of deployment at which a Haliplex consolidated MSPP maximizes revenue options. As fiber prices drop, customer expectations rise, creating a demand for bundled services over fiber tails. Haliplex Micro MSPP solutions introduce breakthrough economics for this service mix. Ideally suited to the head end, the modular, scaleable HPX-1600 enables Carriers to deliver an extensive range of consumer products (ISDN, VPN, DDP, VoIP, Enterprise IP) from a single managed CPE unit, and execute adds, moves and changes with the world's smallest form factor plug-and-play interface modules. As a network extender deep in the access layer, Haliplex platforms have aggregation capacity options from 2 to 56Mbps and core quality availability and protection strategies.
Decentralized Infrastructure, Centralized Management
In the old economy, Digital Access Cross Connection would be the function of a centralized monolith requiring critical support and necessitating considerable risk exposure. Haliplex platforms incorporate DS0 Cross Connect capabilities, meaning that the DACS function is moved to the network edge. Decentralizing network elements reduces risk exposure, frees up saleable bandwidth, and leaves Carriers to tend to the sole focus of transmission infrastructure. At the same time, by implementing Haliplex SNMP-based platforms with full remote management and diagnostics capabilities, Carriers automatically and intrinsically extend the reach of network management, which in turn simplifies operations and reduces truck rolls. Leveraging "aggregation economics", Haliplex platforms succeed in delivering both the integrity of centralized management and the economy of decentralized infrastructure.
Feature and Service Transparency
The traditional limitations on outer-limits revenue have included the ROI paradox of deploying a standard operating environment (SOE) for minimal return, and the expense involved in the management and maintenance of far flung outposts. With the Haliplex MSPP range, Carriers can deploy a single product interface as a means to achieving feature and service transparency between city and rural customers. A single best-in-class Haliplex platform becomes a standalone SOE for providing remotely managed on-demand services on par with metro offerings, and is scaleable to any size as these new markets develop.
Maximizing Service Efficiency
Haliplex platforms exploit efficiencies inherent in the standards-based approach to combining Ethernet and traditional voice and data services over a single transport infrastructure. The Haliplex HPX-1600 SS incorporates Virtual Concatenation (VCAT), which is a technology that allows bandwidth to be better partitioned, enabling significantly greater efficiencies for Ethernet traffic over an SDH/SONET infrastructure. When combined with VCAT, Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme (LCAS) produces an enormously cost-effective mechanism for overlaying data services on existing optical transport networks. This standards application allows a carrier to maximize revenue while using existing and deployed technologies, and is particularly relevant outside the metro packet area.
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