PacketFront solutions overview

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Jean-Luc Popovics 06 13 07 95 20 jlpopovics_at_clovis
europe/com
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Agenda

• PacketFront introduction
• Solving the challenges in broadband networks
• Automation for profitable broadband networks
• Service innovation and ARPU
• High quality broadband TV
• Out-of-data-path
• Factors reducing CAPEX
• Solution overview
• Automation and control automation for low OPEX
• Broadband aggregation
• FTTH access
• ADSL2 access
• References

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PacketFront introduction

• Founded in 2001 by the key personnel responsible
  for building some of the worlds most advanced
  broadband networks.
• 125 employees (June 2006) approx. 180 early
  2007
• HQ in Stockholm, Sweden, and sales offices in the
  USA, Korea, Japan, Norway and the Netherlands,
  presence in Austria and Denmark and via Clovis in
  France
• Owners
• European Equity Partners
• TLcom Capital Partners Limited
• Amadeus Capital Partners
• Founding employees
• First company acquisition in December 2006
  42Networks
• Owners

• International recognition
• European IST Prize for groundbreaking products
• Tornado100, top 100 high-tech companies
• Pulver.com, top 100 companies
• Europe's top 500 job creating companies
• InfoVision Award by IEC, for the control and
  provisioning system, BECS

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Agenda

• PacketFront introduction
• Solving the challenges in broadband networks
• Automation for profitable broadband networks
• Service innovation and ARPU
• High quality broadband TV
• Out-of-data-path
• Factors reducing CAPEX and OPEX
• Solution overview
• Automation and control
• Broadband aggregation
• FTTH access
• ADSL2 access
• References

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Increasing complexity and costs
There is a risk that OPEX and CAPEX will grow
exponentially with deployment of multiple
services and introduction of multiple service
providers!

• Introducing multiple services often results in an
  exponential increase of complexity, and thus
  exponential increase in costs
• Introducing multiple service providers makes
  complexity even greater
• Traditional telecom systems werent built to
  carry different types of services with different
  kinds of requirements on
• Priority
• Shaping
• QoS
• Security
• Bandwidth

Reduce this gap!
OPEX and CAPEX
Service scope
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Automation is key to cost efficiency OPEX
reduction

• PacketFronts broadband solution offers
• Automated element control
• Automated provisioning of service profile changes
• Automated upgrades of network elements SW and
  configuration data
• Automated service control
• Cost efficient service registration,
  automatically provisioned to network elements
• Flexible QoS management
• Advanced filtering for secure TV distribution
• Automated subscriber control
• Automated end user authentication upon client
  booting
• Automated end user authorisation upon service
  activation
• Effective user tracking through centralized IP
  management

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Service innovation and ARPU

• How increase the amount each end user spends on
  broadband services?
• .without losing control of operational costs.

Customer max
Other
Alarm
Video
Source of income
TV
Tel
Example services
ISP
Increase the possibility for end users to buy
more services, i.e. increase ARPU
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Open access per service

• Open access (multiple service providers that
  distribute their services over a shared
  infrastructure) - stimulates service development
  and innovation thus improves service
  take-rate and ARPU
• Shares the risks and revenues of broadband
  deployment
• Allows introduction of 3rd party service
  providers for full triple-play service offering
• Encourages service development and service
  innovation
• Enables service differentiation service
  packaging
• Gives end-user advantages in terms of increased
  flexibility in choice of service provider and
  avoids lock-in-effects
• Has positive effects on local development

IPTV
Each service is treated individually in terms of
bandwidth, QoS, security, priority etc. in
PacketFronts broadband solution.
Telephony
Web browsing
Internet
E-mail
File transfer
Telecommuting
Access line
Services
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IPTV challenges
IPTV distribution in broadband networks is
important as revenue carrier and for its
marketing value, but puts significant technical
requirements on the network

• Reserve access only to those subscribing to a
  specific TV channel
• Protect TV content from malicious users
• Quality of service
• Bandwidth limitations on the access line
• Possibility for local TV providers to distribute
  local content

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Proven IPTV solution

• PacketFronts solution addresses
• Restricted multicast access
• Protection of TV channels from malicious users
• Flexible adjustment of bandwidth bandwidth set
  per service, not per access line
• Service unbundling, allows channel unbundling
• Multicast to conserve bandwidth
• Self provisioning of TV channels through BECS and
  SSP

Bandwidth is isolated per service, not per access
line. Total unbundling of TV services results in
greater flexibility in service differentiation
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Out-of-data-path control not a bottleneck

• Capacity challenges
• A solution where the service engine lies in the
  data path can never scale
• Limitations in capacity
• Limitations in service differentiation and
  manageability
• Centralised or decentralised BRAS does not make
• the difference

BRAS
User 1
User 2
DSLAM/ Access Router
User nn

• PacketFront solution
• Getting out of the data path facilitates a
  scalable and future proof solution for multiple
  services
• Separation of signalling and data traffic avoids
  capacity
• limitations
• More advanced options for service differentiation
  when
• not using the limiting PPPoE technology

Signalling traffic
User 1
User 2
Data traffic
PacketFront IPD / ASR
User nn
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Reduced CAPEX and OPEX

• Costs challenges
• Obsolete installed base. Multi-layer
  architectures with SDH/POS/ATM/IP.
• Different access technologies with different
  systems for control and provisioning
• Large amount of integration work needed for
  interaction between different processes
• Heavy work for provisioning a number of services
  and configurations
• PacketFront solution
• All-IP solution reduces investment and support
  cost
• One single solution for control and provisioning
  of services, independent of access technology
• Triple-play enabled from start, eliminates need
  to re-invest for full service portfolio
• Non blocking architecture future proof
• Integrated system reduces the need for
  integration work
• Ownership of network infrastructure is separated
  from ownership of service provider systems.
  Shared approach to finance broadband deployment
• Services self-provisioning by end-users

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Agenda

• PacketFront introduction
• Solving the challenges in broadband networks
• Automation for profitable broadband networks
• Service innovation and ARPU
• High quality broadband TV
• Out-of-data-path
• Factors reducing CAPEX
• Solution overview
• Automation and control
• Broadband aggregation
• FTTH access
• ADSL2 access
• References

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PacketFront solution overview
Service providers triple play
Network automation, control provisioning
SP 1
SP 1
SP 1
SP 1
SP 2
SP 2
SP 2
SP 2
SP 3
SP 3
SP 3
SP 3
Metro network
Business park using FTTx
Central office
Residential homes using FTTH
Residential homes using ADSL/ADSL2
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Agenda

• PacketFront introduction
• Solving the challenges in broadband networks
• Automation for profitable broadband networks
• Service innovation and ARPU
• High quality broadband TV
• Out-of-data-path
• Factors reducing CAPEX
• Solution overview
• Automation and control
• Broadband aggregation
• FTTH access
• ADSL2 access
• References

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Automation and control
Mediation point
Service providers
Metro network
Signalling traffic
Data traffic
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Automation and control - BECS

• BECS - Control and provisioning system
• Policy management server
• Mass deployment of ASRs
• Service provider management
• Service creation, editing, activation
  deactivation
• Automated service provisioning
• IP address management
• Network maintenance (SW configuration)
• Restricted multicast access
• Placement out-of-data-path
• Security and abuse tracking
• Easy integration with PacketFront developed and
  3rd party OSS/BSS systems through BECS Mediation
  Point

BECS MP
Mediation Point
File system
API
System manager
Netlog
Message Queues
IAMB (IPC)
BECS
BECS core
Script engine
DB
Log Manager
Config job manager
DBAPI
Config rendering engine
Element manager
BECS cell
Network elements

• Values of BECS
• Automates provisioning of software and
  configuration profile to all network elements
  (ASRs) in the network
• Reduces complexity with service registration.
  Services are registered only once in BECS, not
  per network element (as in many other systems)
• Handles the complexity of IP address pools coming
  from multiple service providers a prerequisite
  for an open-access environment
• Enables advanced service differentiation as each
  service is treated individually in terms of
  bandwidth, priority, security, QoS etc
• Placed out-of-data-path, avoiding bottlenecks in
  network traffic

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Automation and control SMT
Service provider/ Network owner

• SMT - Subscriber Management Tool
• Maintains database of which service each end
  users subscribes to, and to which client the
  service is sent
• Enables traceability and monitoring through
  logging records from end users IP and MAC
  addresses
• Provides the interface required to self
  provisioning tools, e.g. Service Selection Portal
  (SSP)
• Managed by service provider or network owner

Local Network
Local Network
Local Network

• Values of SMT
• Service delivery to multiple networks
  simultaneously
• Enables end users self registration and
  activation, e.g. via the Service Selection Portal
  (SSP)

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Automation and control HMT

• HMT - Helpdesk Management Tool
• Helpdesk applications for service providers
• Fast troubleshooting of CPSs or PFDP capable 3rd
  party CPEs
• Statistics on ASR ports

Helpdesk at the service provider
Local Network

• Values of HMT
• Reduces time for trouble-shooting
• Gives visibility all the way to the end users
  CPE minimizes need for on-site visits
• Individual port statistics on the CPS are
  available to detect Ethernet errors

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Automation and control SSP

• SSP - Service Selection Portal
• A user friendly interface for end users to self
  provision services from multiple service
  providers in real-time
• Provides all necessary interfaces to BECS
• Service providers can update presentation of
  services in several networks through one central
  portal generator provided with SSP

End-user view
Service provider view

• Values of SSP
• Easy-to-use, stimulate end users broadband
  service consumption, increases average revenue
  per user (ARPU)
• Interface designed for both PC and TV environment

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Agenda

• PacketFront introduction
• Solving the challenges in broadband networks
• Automation for profitable broadband networks
• Service innovation and ARPU
• High quality broadband TV
• Out-of-data-path
• Factors reducing CAPEX
• Solution overview
• Automation and control
• Broadband aggregation
• FTTH access
• ADSL2 access
• References

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Broadband aggregation
Service providers
Metro network
ADSL/ ADSL2
Ethernet over Coax
Power line
FTTH
xDSL
Wireless
PON
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BB aggregation products ASR 10000

• ASR 10000
• High capacity broadband router
• Powered by the proven iBOS software
• Fully automated and controlled by BECS
• 24 10/100/1000-BaseT copper ports
• 8 SFP slots
• 1 RU, 19
• Dual redundant -48V DC power
• 32Gbps/48Mpps L3 forwarding

ASR 10000

• Values of ASR 10000
• Provides, combined with BECS, one single solution
  for aggregation of multiple access technologies
• Enforces policies from BECS into the network
• Provides cost-efficient alternative to BRAS
  systems
• Allows advanced treatment per service vital in
  triple-play and open-access environments

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Agenda

• PacketFront introduction
• Solving the challenges in broadband networks
• Automation for profitable broadband networks
• Service innovation and ARPU
• High quality broadband TV
• Out-of-data-path
• Factors reducing CAPEX
• Solution overview
• Automation and control
• Broadband aggregation
• FTTH access
• ADSL2 access
• References

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FTTH access
Service providers
End user premises
Metro network
FTTH MM SM or SMSF Fibre
CPS 300 FTU
FTTB CAT5 or FX to each home ring design for
cost effective redundancy
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FTTH products ASR 4000 series

• ASR 4000 series
• Purpose-built access switching router for FTTH
  deployments
• Powered by the proven iBOS software
• Fully automated and controlled by BECS
• Offers identification, prioritisation, shaping,
  queuing, and filtering per service
• Comes in two versions
• Semi-hardened design, built for rough and tough
  environments
• Central office placement
• Comes with several different interfaces Single
  mode fiber, Single fiber, Multimode fiber,
  100Base TX interface

ASR 4000
ASR 4000-CO

• Values of ASR 4000 series
• Enforces policies from BECS into the network
• All SW and configuration automated from BECS upon
  booting saves costly on-site visits and manual
  work
• No mechanical cooling, no moving parts (excl CO
  version) saves replacement costs
• Allows advanced treatment per service vital in
  triple-play and open-access environments

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FTTH products CPE family

• CPS series
• L2 non-blocking multi-service switch
• Includes eight pre defined ports for connecting
  set-top-boxes, gaming consoles, VoIP gateways,
  PCs etc.
• Includes functionality for IGMP snooping and QoS
  per port
• Allows fast trouble shooting through Helpdesk
  Management Tool (HMT)
• Multiple up-link alternatives (MTRJ, VF-34
  Volition, SC Single Fiber, UTP, VDSL)
• CPS 300 allows easy integration with FTU
• DRG series integrates VoIP gateway (formerly
  known as 24Networks)

CPS 300

• FTU Fibre Termination Unit incl. CATV converter
  
• Protects fiber in the household
• FTU includes an optional CATV receiver converting
  CATV signal in the fiber to a standard TV antenna
  outlet
• Supports cpe with and without VoIP gateway

• Values of CPS series FTU
• Out-of-the box provisioned, no need for
  configuration
• Allows fast troubleshooting through HMT
• Excellent handling of multicast traffic, allowing
  multiple set-top-boxes
• Supports traffic separation vital in
  triple-play and open-access environments
• FTU protects fiber during installation period and
  later (in the household)
• CATV converter allows efficient migration to an
  all-IP infrastructure for CATV operators

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Agenda

• PacketFront introduction
• Solving the challenges in broadband networks
• Automation for profitable broadband networks
• Service innovation and ARPU
• High quality broadband TV
• Out-of-data-path
• Factors reducing CAPEX
• Solution overview
• Automation and control
• Broadband aggregation
• FTTH access
• ADSL2 access
• References

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ADSL2 access
Service providers
Metro network
High density central office
Low density central office (co-located)
ASR 10000 Aggregates 24 IPD 1248
Fiber
100/1000BaseT
IPD1248 48 users per DSLAM
End user premises
100Base-T
ATA
ADSL Modem
10/100Base-T
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Agenda

• PacketFront introduction
• Solving the challenges in broadband networks
• Automation for profitable broadband networks
• Service innovation and ARPU
• High quality broadband TV
• Out-of-data-path
• Factors reducing CAPEX
• Solution overview
• Automation and control
• Broadband aggregation
• FTTH access
• ADSL2 access
• References

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References
Some networks powered by PacketFronts solution

• The biggest and most advanced FTTH triple-play
  network in the Netherlands
• 55 000 users

• Multiple service providers (open access)
• Triple-play services
• Self provisioning of services

• 60 services from 25 service providers (open
  access)
• Swedens PTT, Telia, is one of the service
  providers
• Triple-play services
• Won price the most advanced fiber network

• Multiple service providers (open access)
• 15 000 end users

• Run over 60 TV channels with several concurrent
  TV streams per household

150 TV channels distributed over PacketFront
network PacketFront is the only source for TV
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