CHALLENGE A major global enterprise-network service provider needs to deploy both metro- and regional-access rings to meet a customer’s demand for a highly reliable network to support critical enterprise applications. This includes interconnection of its mainframe systems and storagearea networks. STRATEGY Engage a professional services partner with in-depth technical expertise and proven experience to complete the project on-time, on-budget while delivering superior quality to meet the end customer’s needs. RESULTS By selecting ADC Professional Services to deliver a comprehensive set of planning and deployment services, the service provider streamlined its entire deployment process, saving both time and money while improving time-to-revenue for its managed services | PLANNING AND DEPLOYING HIGH AVAILABILITY BROADBAND NETWORKS FOR MANAGED BUSINESS SERVICES CASE STUDY CHALLENGE A major global enterprise-network service provider needs to deploy both metro- and regional-access rings to meet a customer s demand for a highly reliable network to support critical enterprise applications. This includes interconnection of its mainframe systems and storagearea networks. STRATEGY Engage a professional services partner with in-depth technical expertise and proven experience to complete the project on-time on-budget while delivering superior quality to meet the end customer s needs. RESULTS By selecting ADC Professional Services to deliver a comprehensive set of planning and deployment services the service provider streamlined its entire deployment process saving both time and money while improving time-to-revenue for its managed services. CASE STUDY BUSINESS CHALLENGE As part of its business continuity and disaster recovery services a major global enterprisenetwork service provider developed a suite of high-availability services to offer its customers continuous availability to interconnect data centers and business sites. The infrastructure included network synchronous data mirroring and multisite fail-over server clusters. In this environment SONET DWDM multiplexers serve as the interface between the optical network and the customer s networks. The architecture is comprised of base point-to-point and a high-availability network ring. The service allows for various and unique data protocols carried over an optical network. As part of its deployment efforts for a global manufacturer of health and hygiene products the service provider needed to build two high-availability network rings one ring to serve as a metro ring and a second to connect data infrastructures located 90 miles apart. For this service provider the project represented its largest high-availability network deployment to date in terms of the number of connected nodes. Given .
