carrier business opportunities

Corporate IT professionals very familiar with Ethernet as a local area network (LAN) technology are embracing E-VPLS as a full-fledged WAN service. Operational advantages that make E-VPLS architecture advantageous for IT management include ease of implementation, migration and management. Whether using E-VPLS as a service delivery platform or as a Managed VPN service offering, carriers understand that Enterprises are asking for the kind of economical, flexible, highly scalable service that Ethernet VPLS provides.

In the Enterprise, the first business segments to benefit are Health Care, Finance, Education and Government. The applications that are enabled or greatly enhanced are site-to-site access, server consolidation, disaster recovery, Service Orientated Architecture and Internet access. IT departments are attracted to the control, reliability, performance, scalability, cost reduction and simplicity of implementation for organizations that are usually under-resourced.

Ethernet VPLS can support whatever applications the Enterprise needs, from best-effort services for Internet browsing to real-time services for delay and jitter-sensitive voice and video conferencing, with appropriate service levels assigned to each over TelePacific’s IP/MPLS core network.

TelePacific Carrier Partner Benefits

• Carriers can offer competitive service pricing. A single high-speed Ethernet interface is delivered to the end-user customer for all service needs. This allows the carrier to reduce the number of connections (for their different services) to one Ethernet connection, reducing connection fees.
• Carriers benefit from simplified operations, administration and maintenance (OAM): Because services are delivered over a single unified infrastructure, service providers benefit from efficiencies not available in segmented networks. The result is shorter repair time and higher availability.
• Service providers using Ethernet VPLS eliminate the OPEX and capital expenditure (CAPEX) redundancies in operating multiple networks.
• Reduced MAC costs: Service providers can react quickly to an enterprise’s dynamically-changing business environment. This can range from flexible bandwidth to adding or removing sites without impacting the other sites.

• Carriers can reduce training, maintenance and administration costs by migrating to simple Ethernet VPLS networks to offer advanced business services.
• Reliability: IP/MPLS core makes E-VPLS very reliable and secure with QoS capability.
• E-VPLS can guarantee end-to-end QoS and preserve that capability as it scales.
• Bandwidth provisioning on-the-fly for each subscriber independently per E-VPLS service offered to the Enterprise.
• E-VPLS auto-discovery and service provisioning simplifies addition of new sites without requiring reconfiguration at existing sites.
• Reach: From a single NNI interconnection, the scalability of E-VPLS and its multipoint capabilities, make E-VPLS a great choice for geographically-distributed services, not just for a single metro area.

E-VPLS features multiple classes of service; with different QoS characteristics for each CoS level the network performance is aligned to each application and business requirements. With CoS, carriers can address their customer’s reliability concerns by offering them service-specific service level agreements (SLAs) that understands their business requirements and their desire for services tailored to their needs. A plain Layer 2-based Ethernet solution does not allow for class of service.

Carriers using E-VPLS as a service delivery platform benefit from the capabilities of next-generation multipoint services, including support for voice over IP (VoIP), video and data services, as well as support for the non-IP applications that are still a requirement for many corporate firms. Legacy networks are unable to cost-effectively deliver the bandwidth needed for these media-rich applications, while best-effort services do not meet business-reliability criteria.