PLANNING AND DEPLOYING HIGH AVAILABILITY BROADBAND NETWORKS FOR MANAGED BUSINESS SERVICES

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 storage-
area 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
BUSINESS CHALLENGE
As part of its business continuity and disaster
recovery services, a major global enterprise-
network 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
the complexity of the project, expertise in optical
networking and the technical resources required
to successfully complete the deployment, the
service provider chose ADC as its professional
services partner.
ADC SOLUTION
ADC implemented a suite of professional
services specifically tailored for high-availability
network ring deployments. As a Cisco Systems’
Advanced Technology Provider for optical metro
transport and metro DWDM, ADC offered the
service provider in-depth technical expertise
with critical network components as well as
extensive experience in complex multivendor,
multiservice, multitechnology environments.
After discussions with the service provider’s
network design team, ADC developed

customized Engineering Design Packages (EDPs)
for both rings. The EDPs contained specific site
details and overall ring architecture information
including:
• Network diagrams
• Job information
• Site directions
• Customer deliverables
• Task list/installation notes
• Commissioning/provisioning sheets
• Test data sheets
• Diagrams for:
- Cable racks
- Fiber raceways
- Power and grounding
- Top and bottom supports
- Bay and shelf layouts
- Signal flows/fiber runs
- Cabling
- Timing
- Parallel telemetry/alarm wiring
ADC also developed sets of site-specific detailed
instructions for installation that included:
• Material lists
• Cable running diagrams
• Rack and shelf configurations
• External cabling configurations
• Site-specific EDP information
CASE STUDY
The final engineering documentation for the rings

were integrated into the service provider’s Ring
Design Packages, which contained all the
engineering information about the rings and
included:
• Site floor plans
• Commissioning and telemetry data
• Equipment lists
• Baseline fiber characterization and equipment
power-level information
• Commissioning and integration test
documentation
• Testing procedures
• Diagrams for:
- Physical and logical ring overviews
- Equipment elevation
- Shelves and card layout assignments
- Fiber-ring design
In addition to engineering services, ADC provided
materials management services to procure and
handle all the miscellaneous and connectivity
materials for each deployment. Once these
materials were in ADC’s secured facilities, ADC
pre-assembled the nodes. ADC burned-in and
tested OEM equipment, verified the software and
firmware versions and precommissioned the
nodes prior to job-site delivery.
ADC also provided installation services as well as
commissioning services that included:
• Loading and verifying all the software
configurations

• Integrating all the nodes into both rings
• Adjusting optical power levels
• Configuring all the network management
levels
As a final step in the deployment process, ADC
conducted tests that included:
• Network management system tests
• Optical interface tests
• Bit Error Rate measurement tests
• Synchronization integrity verification
• Protocol testing
• Far-end and graduated loop back testing
• Protocol testing
RESULTS
ADC provided the enterprise-network service
provider a comprehensive package of services
that helped to streamline the entire planning and
deployment process. By working with a single
source of professional services, the service
provider realized cost and time savings. More
importantly, ADC’s turnkey approach to high-
availability network deployments ensured that the
service provider could meet its commitment to its
end customer to deliver 99.999 percent network
availability for business continuity and
uninterruptible access to critical information.
CASE STUDY
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ABOUT ADC PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Through its Professional Services organization, ADC helps plan, deploy and maintain telecommunica-
tions networks throughout the United States and Europe. ADC’s unique experience in multivendor,
multitechnology, multiservice solutions makes ADC the ideal choice for projects that require an
in-depth, hands-on understanding of simple to complex network environments.
PLANNING SERVICES
• Program and Project Management
• Network Inventory and Audit
• Engineering
DEPLOYMENT SERVICES
• Program and Project Management
• Engineering
• Material Services
• Preconfigured Equipment Solutions
• Power Services
• Installation Services
• Commissioning and Integration
• Provisioning
• Decommissioning and Removals
MAINTENANCE SERVICES
• Program and Project Management
• Service Call Center and Dispatch

• Technical Assistance Center
• Scheduled Preventive Maintenance
• Emergency Corrective Maintenance
• Field Resource Support
• Circuit Provisioning
• Logistic Services
• Spares Management
ADC Professional Services offers comprehensive
solutions for network operators delivering voice,
video and data services over wireless, wireline
and cable networks. Learn more at
www.adc.com/professionalservices.