Success Story: Network Transformation Analysis
Simplifying network migration planning for a small rural telco:
Network Transformation Analysis
Challenge
Located in central Ohio, a local communication company has been a provider of telephone service to its community for 80 years, and now also provides high speed Internet and cable TV services. As with many other service providers, this company has been struggling to keep up with subscriber demands and is under competitive pressure from the local cable provider.
Determined to maintain its competitive position and deliver the best possible customer experience, the service provider wanted to invest in the Calix E7-20 Ethernet Service Access platform (ESAP) to expand network capacity and ensure that it could deliver the next generation services its residential and business customers would demand.
With minimal in-house resources, the service provider was looking for a partner that could help architect their new network and also provide a clear pathway to keep Network Transformation as simple as possible to execute.
With limited CAPEX budget, it was also important that the service provider could take a phased approach to migrating its network over time and that its investment balanced immediate capacity constraints with future demand requirements.
Solution
Calix Professional Services team delivered a Network Transformation Analysis, which provided:
- A detailed review of current network performance and capacity
- A revised network design based on anticipated future demands
- A network migration plan
Examples of specific activities completed during this service included:
- Bandwidth utilization assessment
- Subscriber profile and template review (CMS/iMS)
- File system inspection
- Timing verification
- Provisioning assessment
- Alarm history and performance monitoring data review
- Protection evaluation (equipment and facility)
- Video - analysis of video growth trends and impact of additional channels being added
- Data - Mapped aggregate Internet growth over 36-month period
- Documentation and graphing of traffic and service forecasts
- Detailed "as-is" network design drawing
Insights
From the service provider's Engineering Manager: "We have limited budget and resources, and we're constantly battling the need to maintain our current services and invest in capacity for future demand. With the Calix Network Transformation Analysis we were provided a clear set of priorities and a roadmap for our network planning and engineering activity over the next several months. We're confident that if we execute to this plan, we'll finally start to get ahead of our customer demands and be able to provide a more competitive set of services."
