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Provisioning Bandwidth & Logical Circuits with Fiber Manager

Jonathan Hager | Tri-State G&T

Skye Perry | SSP Innovations

Dennise Ramirez | SSP Innovations

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Jonathan Hager | Tri-State G&T

Fiber Project Coordinator

Responsible for All New Capital Fiber Projects

Been with Tri-State for 6 years

Extensive experience in private telecom arena

(Level 3, Century Link)

Skye Perry | SSP Innovations

Principal Consultant

Esri & Schneider Electric Technical Architect

Led the technical design @ Tri-State

Certified Fiber Manager Implementer

Dennise Ramirez | SSP Innovations

Principal Consultant

Esri & Schneider Electric Technical Architect

Leading the implementation @ Tri-State with a

team of 4 developers

Significant experience extending SE products

Introductions

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Introduction

Project Update

The Current System & Telecom Assets

Business Drivers

Custom Requirements

Demonstration

Agenda

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Great example of an extension to Fiber Manager

Shows the value of customer collaboration

An eye towards the future

SONET/SDH

Ethernet

Introduction

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On one 400 mile fiber route, approx. 4800 fiber records

On one OC-48 segment, approx. 355,000 T1 circuit records

Adding 100 to 200 miles of fiber

per year

Adding 150+ circuit requests

per year

High Volume of Telecom Asset Records

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Originally Access Database with VBA Front End (~1996)

Converted to Oracle 9i Forms in 2004

Tracked logical infrastructure

of circuits including SONET

timeslots/channel designation

Excel for fiber records

Current System - CSMGMT

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Create a GIS database and web-based interface to:

Identify, review, analyze, and update key attributes of Tri-State’s telecom

network

Include collocation buildings, equipment locations,

fiber optic routes, microwave radio systems,

MAS radio systems, USAT, and UHF radio systems

Provide ability to track logical provisioning with

similar capabilities as current home grown system

to the DS0 level

Business Drivers

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Install new GIS telecom OTS software

Include a new Circuit Mgmt Solution

Add customized software interface for Circuit Mgmt

Migrate Telecom database and fiber data

to new GIS telecom software

(with new customization)

Tie telecom circuits to GIS software

Focus on expanding fiber routes

Requirements

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Reviewed numerous software providers

Interview / demo 4 leading OTS software vendors

Selected ESRI/Schneider and Fiber Manager

Final Solution

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Fiber Manager – It’s Physical● Connection Manager allows you to connect fiber, microwave, etc. to a physical

port on a device on each end

● No internal connectivity between device ports within a device

● Circuit Manager allows you to create a named physical path from device to device

● Does a good job in tracking physical assets and connectivity

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●Track master/header circuits that traverse through devices

●Custom Trace Linking Multiple Fiber Manager Physical Circuits

●Defines connectivity between internal device ports

●Establish bandwidth between end points (up to an OC-192)

Systems / Master Circuits

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The Data Model

F_Circuit F_Circuit F_Circuit F_Circuit F_Circuit

F_System #1 A:C F_System #2 C:F

Custom

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B

A C

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B

A C

System A: OC-48

System B: E-3

System C: OC-12

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2

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B

A C

System A: OC-48

System B: E-3

System C: OC-12

Physical Circuits

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2

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Demonstration – Dennise Ramirez

●Creating Master Circuits

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●Define a bandwidth hierarchy for each master circuit up to

an OC-192 (10 Gb/s)

●Allocate logical trunk circuits

(reserved bandwidth, ex. a full STS-1 or DS1)

●Provision logical tributary circuits

(committed bandwidth) down to a DS0

●Custom Two Point Trace Through Master Circuits

Bandwidth Hierarchy

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● Allocate circuits within the master circuit hierarchy

● 24 DS0s = 1 DS1

● Tributary Circuit

● Ex Hierarchy:

● Consuming the 1st Vir. Tributary

● Within the 13th OC-1 (trunk)

● Within an OC-3 (trunk)

● Within an OC-12 (trunk)

● Within an OC-24 (trunk)

● Within an OC-48 (master)

● Defines the Timeslot of the circuit

Bandwidth Hierarchy

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The Data Model

F_Circuit F_Circuit F_Circuit F_Circuit F_Circuit

F_System #1 A:C F_System #2 C:F

F_LogicalCircuit B:E

F_LogicalCircuit A:D

Custom

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B

A C

System A: OC-48

System B: E-3

System C: OC-12

Physical Circuits

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2

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B

A C

System A: OC-48

System B: E-3

System C: OC-12

Trunk Circuit: DS-1

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2

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B

A C

System A: OC-48

DS0

System B: E-3

DS0

System C: OC-12

DS0

Tributary Circuit

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2

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Demonstration – Dennise Ramirez

●Creating a Trunk

●Creating a Tributary

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What can we do with this level of detailed data?

●Recommend circuit provisioning based on available timeslots

●Track allocated bandwidth vs. capacity at all points on network

●Create a GIS heat map showing bottlenecks

●Drive capital planning for network expansion

●Poke the network at any point to see:

●Hierarchy of the master circuit(s)

●Which logical circuits are present

●The use of each logical circuit (down to the DS0)

●Result is a scalable system

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Demonstration – Dennise Ramirez

●Illustrate allocated bandwidth vs. capacity

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Questions?

Skye PerryPrincipal Consultant

SSP Innovationsskye.perry@sspinnovations.com

Jonathan HagerFiber Project Coordinator

Tri-State G&Tjhager@tristategt.org

Dennise RamirezPrincipal Consultant

SSP Innovationsdennise.ramirez@sspinnovations.com

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