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Author Topic: Openreach to deliver ten times more traffic capacity nationwide  (Read 1781 times)

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Openreach to deliver ten times more traffic capacity nationwide

At the end of April, Openreach is adding a new product to its Optical Spectrum Extended Access (OSEA) portfolio – one that will allow delivery of up to ten times more capacity than current solutions. The new service will also offer the first-ever UK-wide 100G connections – delivered through a unique managed service approach.

The Ciena 6500 will allow communications providers (CPs) to transport larger amounts of data, over longer distances, in a more cost effective way. That in turn will enable them to offer flexible, high-bandwidth, multi-site connectivity and cloud-based services to their enterprise and data centre customers.

Jon Hurry, MD of strategy, commercial portfolio and policy at Openreach said: “As more and more businesses move to high-bandwidth, cloud based services and applications, our CP customers are looking to support them with a much broader range of high-quality connectivity options.

“These new optical services from Openreach are future-proof, and they take advantage of BT’s unrivalled investment in fibre infrastructure across the UK. They also come with the backing of our combined professional service teams, giving customers access to world-class expertise and support from both Openreach and Ciena.”

The new capability will give enterprises and storage providers the tools to offer a broader range of services and applications, including the ultra-low latency facilities required by particular sectors, such as high frequency trading in financial services or synchronous data backup. Businesses will also be able to set up in the most strategic locations, with the assurance of having access to high bandwidth, high quality connectivity.

When the product launches on 29 April it will have taken just nine months from concept to launch – a record achieved because of the unique managed service model approach that has been chosen.

“With the market growing at pace, and requirements for 100G solutions already evident, we wanted to offer a market leading solution, fast,” said Darren Wallington, Head of Optical Solutions. “We already had a proven capability for best practise use of third parties to carry out installation on our behalf, so, deepening our long-standing supplier relationship with Ciena to bring the 6500 to market in this way was simply a no-brainer. Importantly, the approach does not change any of the planning, order or repair touch points for customers, it simply means that all installation and repair functions are carried out by Ciena.

“Working with them in this way strengthens our ability to ensure best practice design choices for specific sectors and requirements,” continues Darren. “We are already working together on continued lifecycle improvements too – such as fault-finding and diagnostics. The really great news for our customers though is that we now have the potential to bring additional 6500 capabilities to market just as fast in the future.”

Although speed to market is clearly important to customers, what the team has been most commended for is the collaborative approach taken to make it all happen.

“We received a full wish list from one customer at the start; we reviewed this with all customers and provided a view on the items we could deliver. The period of extensive development collaboration with customers that followed earned feedback via the OTA (telecoms adjudicator) as a prime example on how Openreach should engage and develop products.”
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Re: Openreach to deliver ten times more traffic capacity nationwide
« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2014, 01:09:25 PM »

Ha ha, ya beat me to it, Snadge. Got the memo this morning but didn't have time to read it. Thanks for sharing.  :)
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