SDN-Based Rollout of Carrier Ethernet Service

About the Customer

The customer is a leading provider of voice and data communications (broadband, VoIP, MPLS) and managed services to enterprises, and wanted to expedite the provision & activation lead time of E-Line and E-Access services falling under carrier Ethernet wholesale product portfolio.

The Business Challenge

Higher lead time to provision E-Line and E-Access services due to multiple vendors and complexity.
Enhanced customer experience – by providing appropriate info and options to enterprise customers.
Optimizing OPEX by reducing complexity due to multi-vendor domains.
Path optimization, thus improving resource utilization.
Features like bandwidth on demand and dynamic interconnect/failover required.

Prodapt’s Solution

Prodapt in partnership with Ciena, developed and integrated resource adapters (RAs) on Ciena’s Blue Planet platform.
RA onboards and integrates with SDN controllers and EMS of all the carrier Ethernet vendors in customer’s network – Ciena’s OneControl & Planet Operate, Coriant’s TNMS & Transcend, and Infinera Xceed.
TOSCA template based development of RA both on staging and production environment.
Agile & DevOps based development methodology incorporated.
End-to-end testing of E-Line and E-Access services on staging environment.
Integration with self-service portal for enterprise customers.