Ethiopian Telecommunications

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Ethiopian Telecommunications
Corporation
(ETC)

• Broadband Multimedia Network

( BMN )
1996 (2004) IXP
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Broadband Multimedia Network

• It is a backbone infrastructure that can enable
  ETC to provide integrated services (Voice, Data
  and Video) to demanding customers through a
  broadband access.
• It is designed and implemented using
• State of the art and cutting edge technologies.
• Powerful and proven platforms
• This network will have a great role for the
  overall development of the country in general and
  nationwide ICT development program in particular.

ETC is making Broadband Services a reality!
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Broadband Multimedia Network

• It is composed of different kinds of technologies
• MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) enabled
  IPATM network
• Optical Network Systems
• ADSL and Fixed Wireless Access networks as a last
  mile access.

ETC is making Broadband Services a reality!
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Broadband Multimedia Network

• This network enables ETC to provide a reliable,
  flexible, scalable, secure, cost effective and
  fully managed IP VPN solutions for customers
  like
• Governmental and Non-governmental organizations
• Private Business/Organizations
• Medical Institutions
• Academic Institutions
• International Organizations
• Residential, etc

ETC is making Broadband Services a reality!
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What is IP?

• It is an Internet Protocol
• IP is set to become the dominant end-to-end
  protocol and the enabler of an unstoppable
  migration to real voice, video and data
  convergence at the applications level, through
  the LAN to the WAN and within the service
  provider cloud

ETC is making Broadband Services a reality!
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What is VPN?

• A VPN is a Virtual Private Network deployed over
  public facilities that provides similar levels of
  privacy, security, quality of services, and
  manageability compared to networks built entirely
  on dedicated, privately owned or leased
  facilities.

ETC is making Broadband Services a reality!
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Virtual Private Network

• There are three types of VPN services, which are
  not mutually exclusive to one another. They are
• Remote Access VPNs
• Intranet VPNs
• Extranet VPNs
• BMN supports all types of the VPN services

ETC is making Broadband Services a reality!
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Remote Access VPN

• VPN access using dial-up or broadband (DSL or
  cable) access to a service provider network to
  connect remote or mobile users to the company
  network.

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Intranet VPN

• Connecting main and branch offices at
  geographically dispersed locations using
  always-on connections for fast and efficient
  communications.
• Two types of Intranet connectivity
• Any-to-any
• Hub-and-spoke

ETC is making Broadband Services a reality!
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Extranet VPN

• Connecting a company with its customers,
  suppliers, and other business partners, to
  provide them with limited access to specific
  portions of the company network for collaboration
  and co-ordination.

ETC is making Broadband Services a reality!
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IP VPN

• IP based VPN through which customers can get
  managed value added IP services, in addition to
  the Intranet and Extranet connectivity services,
  like
• Managed LAN services
• Managed Content Networking
• Internet access
• Video-over-IP
• Web-casting
• IP hosting storage
• Streaming, etc

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IP VPN Features Customer Benefits

• IP VPN Features
• Fully managed outsourced network service with
  the same policies and security enjoyed on a
  private network

• Customer Benefits
• Eliminates the need to purchase private
  network WAN equipment
• Reduces staff training requirements and
  operational costs
• Eliminates cost and hassle of designing,
  deploying and maintaining private WAN
• Customers can focus on core competencies, not
  network operations
• Scales to as many Sites and Users as needed
• SP manages the network and provides 7x24
  helpdesk for comprehensive support

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IP VPN Features Customer Benefits

• IP VPN Features
• Differentiated Classes of Service

• Customer Benefits
• Customers can ensure that mission critical
  traffic receives the bandwidth it requires
• Customers can be offered differentiated classes
  of service (e.g. premium for Voice, business
  for mission critical and, best effort for email
  and FTP)
• Customers can optimize utilization of network
  resources and reduce cost.
• Supports delivery of any type of new application
  on top of VPNs

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IP VPN Features Customer Benefits

• IP VPN Features
• Scalability VPNs with faster provisioning
• Affordable for small and medium-sized enterprises
  

• Customer Benefits
• Customers enjoy faster provisioning to connect
  new sites, new users, and new applications
• VPN services are affordable for new markets (such
  as small and medium-sized businesses) that can
  not always afford traditional Layer 2 services
• WAN bandwidth optimisation saves costs

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IP VPN Features Customer Benefits

• IP VPN Features
• Consolidation of data, voice and video services
  through a single connection
• IP VPN supports variety of access technologies
  with variety bandwidth

• Customer Benefits
• Enables advanced multimedia applications
• Customers enjoy lower costs than they would with
  multiple networks services
• Reduces customer capital equipment expenditure
• One consistent platform for total customer VPN
  solution.
• Allows remote users to securely access corporate
  intranet services.

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IP VPN Features Customer Benefits

• IP VPN Features
• IP address management
• Security and customer-defined access control

• Customer Benefits
• Customers can use private IP addresses internally
  which remain confidential.
• Optional Network Address Translation allows
  customers to access external destinations
• Customers conserve IP addresses and preserve
  current addressing scheme.
• Customers can enforce their private security
  policy to administrate which users can access
  which portions of the network
• For security conscious customers, traffic can be
  encrypted with IPSec for access, intranets and
  extranets to ensure traffic cannot be read by
  anyone but the destination users.

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IP VPN Features Customer Benefits

• Customer Benefits
• Improve ability to do business with branch
  offices, customers, suppliers and partners
• Customer can focus on their core competencies,
  not the network
• Eliminates the burden and complexity of dealing
  with and managing multiple vendors

• IP VPN Features
• Supply chain automation
• Single-point-of-contact for the entire solution,
  LAN WAN

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