In this video we would like to discuss how to lower the provider’s total cost of ownership. High adoption rates and an increasing competitive environment are driving the Ethernet service prices down. This, in turn, causes increasing pressure on the carriers to lower their total cost of ownership by driving down their CapEx costs. Clearly, the immediate place to look for reducing the total cost of ownership is the capital expenditures, meaning the cost of the network equipment. RAD responded to this challenge by producing its own in-house feature-rich Carrier Ethernet ASIC, and thus RAD was able to reduce the equipment cost without compromising performance. This exceptional offering was also recognized by the industry, and RAD received a valued leadership award for best price performance offer in the Carrier Ethernet demarcation market.
But lowering the CapEx is not enough. The OpEx must also be addressed and controlled in order to maintain Ethernet service profitability. The operational costs have to actually address the three parts in the service lifecycle: The service turn-up, the ongoing service monitoring, and, in case of a problem, the fault management and recovery.
RAD has incorporated in its solutions sophisticated tool sets to allow end-to-end service control and monitoring throughout the service lifecycle. These include service turn-up tools, based on industry standards such as RFC 2544 and Y.1564. Extensive Ethernet OAM tools for connectivity and fault monitoring as well as for performance monitoring. And diagnostics and reporting tools for statistics, trend reporting, as well as graphic notification when service falls below defined SLA objectives.
To summarize, lowering the total cost of ownership is one of the most pressing items today for carriers. RAD’s Carrier Ethernet solutions are specifically designed to do just that.
