Mirantis Case Studies With OpenStack, Leading Asia Pacific Telecom Reduces Provisioning Time from Weeks to Seconds

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With OpenStack, Leading Asia Pacific Telecom Reduces Provisioning Time from Weeks to Seconds

Mirantis

Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries	Telecommunications
Applicable Functions	Logistics & Transportation
Use Cases	Process Control & Optimization Real-Time Location System (RTLS)
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services System Integration
Challenge	The company, a leading telecommunications and technology company based in the Asia Pacific region, was facing challenges in dynamically allocating bandwidth to efficiently provide the exact network resources required by every user at any given time. This was critical to minimize latency in applications with large volumes of fast-moving data and to maintain high end-to-end performance in bandwidth-intensive applications, such as video, gaming and other multimedia. The rapid growth of cloud computing was putting tremendous pressure on carriers and enterprises to ensure reliable, high-performance networking services despite heavier traffic patterns and greater strain on network bandwidth for distributed computing operations. The company's infrastructure made provisioning a circuit for customers a multiweek process that included manually setting up switches, routers and other equipment. Read More
About Customer	The customer is a leading telecommunications and technology company based in the Asia Pacific region. The company operates in more than countries, with 40,000 employees globally. The company’s solutions range from global connectivity, managed network services, cloud services, collaboration services, voice and mobile services and satellite and media services. The company’s enterprise services division provides IP networks and network applications services. The company had historically built out infrastructure that made provisioning a circuit for customers a multiweek process that included manually setting up switches, routers and other equipment. Read More
Solution	The company selected Mirantis OpenStack, along with integration services from Mirantis, to provide a flexible bandwidth solution utilizing SDN across multiple geographically distributed data centers to provide point-to-point connectivity between OpenStack clouds. Customers work from the network API, a self-service customer portal and a network control plane powered by Mirantis OpenStack using Fuel, to dynamically provision network connectivity and bandwidth by calling the API with automation tools. The company’s SDN platform provides Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) architecture to carriers and enterprises. The telecom can orchestrate multi-region application services in real time. Port-to-port connections can be provisioned in about four seconds, even between geographically distant data centers in different countries and continents. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Applicable Industries

Telecommunications

Applicable Functions

Logistics & Transportation

Use Cases

Process Control & Optimization

Real-Time Location System (RTLS)

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

System Integration

Challenge

The company, a leading telecommunications and technology company based in the Asia Pacific region, was facing challenges in dynamically allocating bandwidth to efficiently provide the exact network resources required by every user at any given time. This was critical to minimize latency in applications with large volumes of fast-moving data and to maintain high end-to-end performance in bandwidth-intensive applications, such as video, gaming and other multimedia. The rapid growth of cloud computing was putting tremendous pressure on carriers and enterprises to ensure reliable, high-performance networking services despite heavier traffic patterns and greater strain on network bandwidth for distributed computing operations. The company's infrastructure made provisioning a circuit for customers a multiweek process that included manually setting up switches, routers and other equipment.

About Customer

The customer is a leading telecommunications and technology company based in the Asia Pacific region. The company operates in more than countries, with 40,000 employees globally. The company’s solutions range from global connectivity, managed network services, cloud services, collaboration services, voice and mobile services and satellite and media services. The company’s enterprise services division provides IP networks and network applications services. The company had historically built out infrastructure that made provisioning a circuit for customers a multiweek process that included manually setting up switches, routers and other equipment.

Solution

The company selected Mirantis OpenStack, along with integration services from Mirantis, to provide a flexible bandwidth solution utilizing SDN across multiple geographically distributed data centers to provide point-to-point connectivity between OpenStack clouds. Customers work from the network API, a self-service customer portal and a network control plane powered by Mirantis OpenStack using Fuel, to dynamically provision network connectivity and bandwidth by calling the API with automation tools. The company’s SDN platform provides Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) architecture to carriers and enterprises. The telecom can orchestrate multi-region application services in real time. Port-to-port connections can be provisioned in about four seconds, even between geographically distant data centers in different countries and continents.

Impact #1	The company can now provision and deprovision circuits in seconds.
Impact #2	Customers can dynamically provision bandwidth only when needed, even in hourlong increments, with pricing information in real time for different types of bandwidth.
Impact #3	The service brings the financial benefits of highlygranular SLAs with just-in-time provisioning, bandwidth calendaring, and automatic path recalculation and failover.

Impact #1

The company can now provision and deprovision circuits in seconds.

Impact #2

Customers can dynamically provision bandwidth only when needed, even in hourlong increments, with pricing information in real time for different types of bandwidth.

Impact #3

The service brings the financial benefits of highlygranular SLAs with just-in-time provisioning, bandwidth calendaring, and automatic path recalculation and failover.

Benefit #1	Network provisioning reduced from weeks to seconds
Benefit #2	User Commitments slashed from an year to an hour

Benefit #1

Network provisioning reduced from weeks to seconds

Benefit #2

User Commitments slashed from an year to an hour

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With OpenStack, Leading Asia Pacific Telecom Reduces Provisioning Time from Weeks to Seconds

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