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Global Capacity Selects Telco Systems’ High Density Solutions for its Global Inter-Connect Services

Telco Systems — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:22:11 +0000

T-Metro 8006 and EdgeGenie selected to provide world-wide access interconnection

MANSFIELD, MA, April 16, 2013 – Telco Systems, a BATM company (LSE: BVC, TASE: BATM) and developer of multi-service Carrier Ethernet access, MPLS and SDN solutions for mobile backhaul, business Ethernet services and cloud networking, announced today that Global Capacity, the world’s leading telecommunications information and logistics company, selected Telco Systems’ T-Metro 8006 service aggregation and cloud gateway platform and EdgeGenie service management solutions to play a central piece in its inter-carrier connect solution.

Global Capacity’s One Marketplace enables customers to accelerate time to market and provide ubiquitous services by automating the procurement of network connectivity. Its recently announced One Hub solution provides a consolidated interconnection through which buyers can cost-effectively and efficiently expand their networks. One Hub offers customers the options of 1 or 10 Gigabit E-NNIs that connect to over 3,000,000 addresses in the U.S. with native Ethernet services.

Telco Systems offers Carrier Ethernet and MPLS-based demarcation and aggregation managed solutions designed to create end-to-end, intelligent, self-healing and cost-effective networks.
Global Capacity chose Telco Systems’ T-Metro 8006 high density service aggregation for its flexibility and scalability, combined with the company’s powerful service management system, EdgeGenie. Global Capacity can achieve a superior total cost of ownership using EdgeGenie to accelerate network planning, deployment, and ongoing management of new services. This solution allows for flexible bandwidth management and service assurance via robust integrated OAM tools.

“Telco Systems’ CE 2.0-compliant end-to-end Ethernet product portfolio makes a key difference for Global Capacity. Telco Systems’ solutions enable us to rapidly connect new services with the best user experience and assured SLAs,” states Jack Lodge, President of Global Capacity. “Our customers now have a simple and cost-effective way to gain access to our tremendous Ethernet reach governed by a single service agreement with uniform terms, conditions and SLAs, while mitigating the complexities associated with the management of multiple technical interconnections and vendors.”

“We are excited to be selected by Global Capacity and provide part of their offering to hundreds of service providers around the world featuring service delivery efficiencies, and reduces the cost of buying access network services globally,“ said Reinhard Florin, Vice President of Sales, North America from Telco Systems. “Global Capacity shares our values and our goals to provide service providers the ability to increase revenue, decrease operating expenses, and gain a competitive advantage in the market. Together, we dramatically simplify and accelerate the delivery of data connectivity.”

Learn more about Global Capacity’s experience here.

One Third of Cord Cutters Won’t Ever Go Back – Even if Cable Industry Finally Lowered Prices

DSLReports — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:05:50 +0000

While the cable industry likes to pretend that cable “cord cutters” don’t exist (or that they’re a lower class of human being), apparently the feeling is quite mutual. According to a recent survey released by deal-aggregation website TechBargains.com, 33% of cable and satellite subscribers who have cut the television cord would not return to cable TV — even if the cable industry finally decided they would compete on price and lower the monthly bill. Unsurprisingly, 83% of people who have ditched cable or satellite have done so because of high prices. Even analysts and firms that like high cable prices have repeated that the high prices aren’t sustainable in the face of a flat housing market and Internet video.
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What is a Cloud Gateway?

Telco Systems — Thu, 03 May 2012 07:02:23 +0000

A survey that Light Reading done among the carriers, clearly showed that there has been a major increase in strategic activity related to cloud services over the past year. More than 85% of telecom operators responded to this survey, said that their companies are either offering cloud services or are taking steps to offer them. Moreover a solid majority believes that telecom service providers have a competitive advantage in providing cloud services, because they control the network and can provide end-to-end SLAs.

As enterprises and consumers access these new cloud based services, connectivity by end users or business locations will mandate aggregated WAN connections into the private or public based clouds. Recent advances in wide area networking has brought Carrier Ethernet to the forefront as the transport mechanism of choice to access both private and public cloud services as well as cloud-to-cloud connectivity.

Carrier Ethernet connections will have to support new capabilities to address the unique needs of connections to cloud based services. Several areas of focus and use cases have been identified by the MEF: See new white paper on Carrier Ethernet for Delivery of Private Cloud Services

Elastic Ethernet Service attributes
On-demand bandwidth approaches and
Network/Cloud/Subscriber Management Orchestration

Cloud gateway is the missing piece in the puzzle:

It connects the core network with the access and edge network
It connects the cloud traffic to the end-users
It also connects between different clouds/datacenters (different locations and different providers)

But there is much more than just connectivity. To ensure end-to-end SLA, various elements need to be controlled and managed in order to provide successful cloud based service:

Scalable density: Carrier Ethernet connections have evolved from mid-band Ethernet connections (sub 100Mbps) to Gigabit and now 10GigE connections for wholesale, business end users, and for mobile backhaul connections. New Carrier Cloud gateway platforms will enable scale via modular chassis based designs that can scale to support high numbers of both 1G and 10G interfaces which will drive multiple 40GigE connections and 100GigE (future) for the uplinks with a minimum of at least a 1T of total capacity.
Open Architecture: To ensure rapid deployment and adoption of these new carrier cloud gateways, the equipment architecture should ideally be based on industry standard such as AdvancedTCA chassis. These standard chassis can scale from 1RU up to 16RU slot capacity, allowing operators to rapidly match density needs while adding new applications capabilities via standard AdvancedTCA ecosystem blades and line interface cards. An ecosystem of AdvancedTCA vendors already support best of breed applications such as firewall, intrusion detection, video optimization, DPI, caching, load balancing, SAN, virtualization, policy management and new SDN based Openflow protocol.
Efficiency: Carrier Cloud gateways will need to support best in class densities with space, power savings, and extensive Ethernet wire speed OAM to ensure service providers can easily manage and monitor SLA requirements while minimizing CAPEX and maximizing OPEX savings for low overall TCO.
Flexible: Several protocol alternatives exist to support end to end carrier Ethernet connectivity. Ideally the carrier cloud gateway will have support for both L2 Ethernet, MPLS, and new SDN supported Openflow protocols to ensure carriers can support interconnection to any customer, carrier, operator, or wholesale broker that may require access to the carrier cloud gateway.
End-to-end service management and monitoring: MEF identified that there must be smooth management orchestration between carrier network, cloud provider, and subscriber management systems. Additionally operators will likely require multivendor support, as different existing vendors equipment will continue to exist in the operator networks as migration to newer cloud architectures are deployed. As part of the services management, more granular monitoring of the actual end-user flows will increasingly be needed to provide real time information for security and virtualization techniques which will be used to provide secure bandwidth-on-demand and elastic Ethernet capabilities to “tune up or down” service levels on an as-needed-basis.
Flow based management – the quality of different flows and different services should managed separately to ensure different characteristics per type of service per customer some mechanisms like HQoS exist already in the market today allowing that
Resiliency - as the network getting more and more complex resiliency is not only about providing alternative to failing network device but alternative to depredated service and resiliency across different domains
Low Latency – the level of experience user expect should be as high if not higher as the service the users are getting if the info/service are using their local LAN, this forces the provider for maintain low latency across the network. Thus each element’s latency needs to be measure in microseconds
Load Balancing - high capacity metro network combined with data centers and multiple bottle necks require a device that will manage the load in the edge of the cloud , going into the cloud, going to the metro network or going across multiple cloud
Caching and resource optimization — this is a critical element to ensure that data is stored in a way that provides a faster storage system or a storage system closer to the usage of the data, cloud gateway can communicate this information with the cloud and optimize the traffic

To summarize, Cloud Gateway is the gateway connecting the cloud, core and metro Ethernet in the different layers of communication, transport, control, service and ensure assure end-to-end SLA.

We’ve lately released the T-Metro 8000 cloud gateway and service aggregation platform, click here to get more details or contact us to discuss.

What is Cloud Gateway?

Telco Systems — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 07:02:28 +0000

Elastic Ethernet Service attributes
On-demand bandwidth approaches and
Network/Cloud/Subscriber Management Orchestration

Cloud gateway is the missing piece in the puzzle:

It connects the core network with the access and edge network
It connects the cloud traffic to the end-users
It also connects between different clouds/datacenters (different locations and different providers)

But there is much more than just connectivity. To ensure end-to-end SLA, various elements need to be controlled and managed in order to provide successful cloud based service:

Scalable density: Carrier Ethernet connections have evolved from mid-band Ethernet connections (sub 100Mbps) to Gigabit and now 10GigE connections for wholesale, business end users, and for mobile backhaul connections. New Carrier Cloud gateway platforms will enable scale via modular chassis based designs that can scale to support high numbers of both 1G and 10G interfaces which will drive multiple 40GigE connections and 100GigE (future) for the uplinks with a minimum of at least a 1T of total capacity.
Open Architecture: To ensure rapid deployment and adoption of these new carrier cloud gateways, the equipment architecture should ideally be based on industry standard such as AdvancedTCA chassis. These standard chassis can scale from 1RU up to 16RU slot capacity, allowing operators to rapidly match density needs while adding new applications capabilities via standard AdvancedTCA ecosystem blades and line interface cards. An ecosystem of AdvancedTCA vendors already support best of breed applications such as firewall, intrusion detection, video optimization, DPI, caching, load balancing, SAN, virtualization, policy management and new SDN based Openflow protocol.
Efficiency: Carrier Cloud gateways will need to support best in class densities with space, power savings, and extensive Ethernet wire speed OAM to ensure service providers can easily manage and monitor SLA requirements while minimizing CAPEX and maximizing OPEX savings for low overall TCO.
Flexible: Several protocol alternatives exist to support end to end carrier Ethernet connectivity. Ideally the carrier cloud gateway will have support for both L2 Ethernet, MPLS, and new SDN supported Openflow protocols to ensure carriers can support interconnection to any customer, carrier, operator, or wholesale broker that may require access to the carrier cloud gateway.
End-to-end service management and monitoring: MEF identified that there must be smooth management orchestration between carrier network, cloud provider, and subscriber management systems. Additionally operators will likely require multivendor support, as different existing vendors equipment will continue to exist in the operator networks as migration to newer cloud architectures are deployed. As part of the services management, more granular monitoring of the actual end-user flows will increasingly be needed to provide real time information for security and virtualization techniques which will be used to provide secure bandwidth-on-demand and elastic Ethernet capabilities to “tune up or down” service levels on an as-needed-basis.
Flow based management – the quality of different flows and different services should managed separately to ensure different characteristics per type of service per customer some mechanisms like HQoS exist already in the market today allowing that
Resiliency - as the network getting more and more complex resiliency is not only about providing alternative to failing network device but alternative to depredated service and resiliency across different domains
Low Latency – the level of experience user expect should be as high if not higher as the service the users are getting if the info/service are using their local LAN, this forces the provider for maintain low latency across the network. Thus each element’s latency needs to be measure in microseconds
Load Balancing - high capacity metro network combined with data centers and multiple bottle necks require a device that will manage the load in the edge of the cloud , going into the cloud, going to the metro network or going across multiple cloud
Caching and resource optimization — this is a critical element to ensure that data is stored in a way that provides a faster storage system or a storage system closer to the usage of the data, cloud gateway can communicate this information with the cloud and optimize the traffic

To summarize, Cloud Gateway is the gateway connecting the cloud, core and metro Ethernet in the different layers of communication, transport, control, service and ensure assure end-to-end SLA.

We’ve lately released the T-Metro 8000 cloud gateway and service aggregation platform, click here to get more details or contact us to discuss.

First open architecture platform – T-Metro 8000 Cloud Gateway

Telco Systems — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 07:02:22 +0000

T-Metro 8000 provides industry’s first open architecture platform with best in class carrier Ethernet/MPLS density, scalability and price performance for cloud, mobile backhaul, and business services

T-Metro 8000 offers answers to many of the challenges introduced by cloud based services including security, resiliency, low latency, load balancing, and SLA monitoring. Based on AdvancedTCA open architecture standards, the T-Metro 8000 Carrier Cloud Gateway comes with the award winning BiNOX operating system software supporting Hierarchal QoS (HQoS), hardware based wire speed OAM, load balancing, VPLS/HVPLS and L2VPN optimized capabilities.

The open carrier-grade industry standard architecture AdvancedTCA, enables seamless integration of additional blades from other vendors allowing for creation of new services and solutions. T-Metro 8000 introduces the first open Carrier Ethernet solution that future-proof the provider network by supporting value-added services including in-cloud load balancing to ensure an exceptional level of experience for the end-user while optimizing carrier resources.

Telco Systems’ T-Metro 8000 is the next generation MPLS and Ethernet Chassis based highest density service aggregation platform. With up to 1T of capacity in compact 6RU chassis and up to 240G per line card, this product line offers industry-leading throughput, densities, monitoring and resiliency. Enabling a wide variety of services and an easy migration to a converged service environment, the T-Metro 8000 is the platform of choice to enable wide-scale Carrier Ethernet 2.0 (CE2.0) adoption, implementation, and transformation.

“Our Carriers customers shared with us that their biggest concern is providing assured, secured end-to-end service with low latency and high scalability”, said Nir Daube, VP Product Management for Telco Systems. “T-Metro 8000 combines with EdgeGenie, our service management solution, as well as with our demarcation and aggregation switches allowing our customers to build a cost-optimized scalable MPLS and Ethernet network. It utilizes unique service management which enables customers to focus on the services offered to their end-users, making them the cloud and business services provider of choice for any enterprise.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbxhi4kL_08

Insight into Telefonica’s Tecnopolis Project

Ethernut.net — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:44:56 +0000

We are very fortunate to be able to bring you this interview with Hector Menjivar, LATAM Sales Director for Telco Systems on the recent announcement that Telco Systems’ Ethernet demarcation and aggregation products were chosen by Telefonica Argentina.

Ethernut: Telco Systems just announced a high-profile project with Telefonica. Can you tell us more about it?

Hector Menjivar, LATAM Sales Director at Telco Systems

Menjivar: Telefonica Argentina was tasked by the Argentinean government to build the network for a new technology park in which the government could share developments in technology- and specifically communication technology – with the Argentinean people.

Telefonica was looking for a solution that could be used to carry multiple services – voice, video, surveillance, music, wireless (WiFi) and mobile on the same devices while giving each a different quality of service. Telefonica has been working with Telco Systems for years and they knew that our product could provide them with what they needed.

However, because of the nature of this project, we had to compete with some of the largest companies in the industry. We were selected not only because our solutions met their requirements, but also because they knew that they could rely on our technical support team to make sure that the deployment went smoothly.

Ethernut: So this not a one-shot win for you?

Menjivar: No, this is just another win in a list of projects in which Telefonica used both our demarcation and aggregation solutions.

Ethernut: Can you tell us more about the network?

Menjivar: Using a single fiber-based infrastructure, Telefónica designed an internal ring of five miles (eight kilometers) of optical fiber with 35 nodes that cover more than 200 points within the park to offer high-speed IP services. They selected the core devices from another vendor and then used our 10Gig aggregation switches (T5C-XG) to create non-blocking rings. Off these rings they connected our demarcation products (T-Marc) that can support over 120 separate services. Each service is configured with its own priority, jitter, delay and other QoS characteristics

Ethernut: How is it done?

Menjivar: Our software creates a Service Virtualization Layer in which all the services are controlled. In this layer we have Virtual Switching Instances (VSI) per service and virtual interfaces for incoming and outgoing traffic separately. These virtual instances are then assigned to physical ports but still managed separately. So while multiple services use same physical port, MAC addresses are learned per service and per virtual port. This service layer is fully compliant with MEF standards.

Our service management platform, EdgeGenie, further simplifies the ability to manage the services over the network.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5gpRPR6CE4

Telefonica picks Telco Systems for Argentina’s Tecnopolis theme park

Irit Gillath — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:27:11 +0000

Telefonica Argentina has selected Telco Systems‘ Ethernet demarcation and aggregation products to create the telecommunications network for the Tecnopolis theme park. Located in Villa Martelli, near the Buenos Aires capital, the 50 hectares technology theme park opened on 15 July. Telefonica was selected by the Argentinean government to implement a technological infrastructure to support the science, technology and art exhibitions at the park. The network supports multicast video and music, internet access and video surveillance applications that serve the needs of the park operators and visitors. Using a single fibre-based infrastructure, Telefonica designed an internal ring of eight kilometers of optical fibre with 35 nodes that cover more than 200 points within the park to offer high-speed IP services. The network supports voice, audio, video and 3G mobile services through Movistar. The infrastructure also supports broadband internet access throughout the park to over 3,000 users and video surveillance for park security and lighting control.

Telefónica was tasked by the Argentinean government to implement a technological infrastructure to support the many science, technology and art exhibitions at the park. The network supports multicast video and music, Internet access and video surveillance applications that serve the needs of the park operators and visitors.

According to Ing. Andres Omar Persello, Area de Administracion y Operacion de RED of Telefónica, “We chose the telecom equipment for the network carefully, knowing that it would be the technological heart of one of the most important government projects in Argentina. After evaluating solutions from several large equipment vendors, we chose Telco Systems to supply the demarcation and aggregation devices. We are using Telco Systems equipment in many of our networks and as such we knew that it would support the quad-play service requirement very well. As expected, Telco Systems’ support in this project ensured that the turn-up went smoothly and professionally.”

Using a single fiber-based infrastructure, Telefónica designed an internal ring of five miles (eight kilometers) of optical fiber with 35 nodes that cover more than 200 points within the park to offer high-speed IP services. The network supports voice, audio, video and 3G cellular services through MoviStar, a major Spanish mobile phone operator owned by Telefónica Móviles. The infrastructure also supports broadband internet access throughout the park to over 3,000 users and video surveillance for park security and lighting control.

“We appreciate the opportunity to be a part of this project which is important to the Argentinean government and its people,” stated Itzik Weinstein, CEO of Telco Systems. “I believe Telefonica has succeeded in providing a high-end next generation telecommunications network, setting the bar for delivery of multiple services across a single fiber-based infrastructure in Argentina and throughout the region.”

Telco Systems T-Marc 300 was chosen as the termination primarily because of its ability to multiplex multiple services over each port of the device. Each service is configured with its own quality of service and priority. These devices are deployed in multiple rings which are aggregated over the Company’s T5C-XG multilayer 10Gig aggregation switches.