Effective Migration from legacy, vertically integrated solutions, towards multi-vendor, interoperable, vendor-agnostic and integrated end-end high-speed internet infrastructure – Reply’s Network Maestro Blueprint is a route to success.
During recent years, the need to provide high-speed internet access is a must-do for service provider’s clients, both residential as well as enterprises. The digital era we now live in demands ubiquitous access to social media, educational and other types of content including automated customer services (whether we want that aspect or not). But plain internet access it is not enough to meet demand, offer excellence in customer services and remain profitable. Customers need a range of service packages to be available from the service providers, that address their individual needs, such as mobile plans, high-speed broadband, Voice over IP, IP TV and others. Providing a cost-effective and “future proof” end-to-end solution for service providers, so that they can satisfy the needs of their clients, can be challenging as they try to deliver differentiate on the highest speeds but are limited by legacy networks with long timescales for technology refresh and are constrained by the roadmap of their incumbent suppliers. Their vertically integrated software and hardware limit innovation and agility with which to serve their customer’s needs.
There are several key points which need to be considered for high-speed internet solutions:
In traditional solutions, sometimes referred to as “legacy” or “vertically integrated”, service providers were obliged to use components from a single manufacturer with which to build their entire network, i.e. hardware, firmware, software and bespoke integration services would be provided by a single supplier because open standards were not available, and/or interoperability was not possible or complex and costly to achieve. In turn, this led to vendor lock resulting in a higher total cost of ownership, lower profit margins and complexity in migration. Thankfully this has changed with the introduction of disaggregated architectures, both between hardware and software (from different suppliers) and importantly, between the data and control planes of the software architecture, meaning that a single, common, control plane solution such as Reply’s Network Maestro E2E project blueprint can be deployed and used to manage not only multiple vendors equipment but also multiple technologies from a single “brain”. Service providers are now able to utilise components from any vendor to create a solution that meets their needs. Moreover, the timeline for the introduction of a new, or indeed a replacement, vendor is much shorter and less complex.
Net Reply, together and in partnership with Zyxel and Netsia, we are able to help organisations migrate from legacy and integrate a disaggregated Software Defined Networking End-End solution and, at our Nova offices in London Victoria, our showcase for the “Network Maestro” is open for visitors. Based on Broadband Forum and Open Network Foundation architectures, protocols and standards the solution can deliver end-to-end solutions for fixed broadband networks with speeds of up to 10Gbps to residential gateways and enterprise premises equipment.
We recognised that it can be challenging, and time-consuming, for technology and solution providers collaborate in multiple groups that, individually, only offer component parts of a new end-to-end solution that include software to hardware. At Net Reply (UK), we are established as system integrators, that can be that single point of contact and information for any service provider looking to implement and maintain a disaggregated solution in their network.
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