pacnet upgrades to an intelligent transport network™ across land
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CASE STUDY
PACNET UPGRADES TO AN INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT NETWORK™ ACROSS LAND AND SEA
CUSTOMER NAMEPACNET
Pacnet wanted to enhance its network’s redundancy and reliability as it optimized its Pan Asian network for multiterabit transport and elastic bandwidth delivery.
SOLUTIONAn Intelligent Transport Network with Infinera’s DTN-X, providing a high-capacity 500Gb/s super-channel platform
Service provisioning flexibility due to the integrated OTN switching capability, an advanced network management system and services support package
RESULTSInfinera’s DTN-X solution was deployed as part of Pacnet’s 100 Gbps optical core network upgrade within just nine weeks.The DTN-X’s FastSMP technology ensures that Pacnet’s customers can survive multiple fiber cuts with sub-50ms restoration time. Instant bandwidth functionality and a multi-terabit capability allow Pacnet to deliver network upgrades in seconds and support ever increasing intra and inter-regional bandwidth demands.
IMAGINE YOU’RE A TRADER
on the Tokyo stock exchange,
you are on the phone and
an earthquake rattles your
building. The lights flicker, your
PC reboots and you can’t tell
if your phone call is still active,
and after a few minutes you ask
yourself ‘Is my network still up?’.
This scenario is not uncommon,
and is a familiar concern for
many in the financial, business
and telecom markets across the
Asian market.
In fact, Asia is one of the most
challenging markets when
it comes to delivering high
capacity, feature rich and carrier
class network services. This
market is home for Pacnet, a
service provider that operates
a resilient, state of the art fiber
optic submarine network that
delivers mission critical services
to both network operators and
enterprises. Pacnet has recently
upgraded to an Intelligent
Transport Network from Infinera
to deliver a unified terrestrial
and subsea network with
massive DWDM capacity. The
building block of this network
is the ultra-reliable DTN-X
platform that also incorporates
multi-failure 50ms protection
via an OTN mesh and intelligent
control software. Infinera’s
Intelligent Transport Network is
an ideal way to provide peace
of mind to Pacnet’s customers.
Who is Pacnet?
Pacnet is a major Asia-Pacific
provider of integrated network
and technology solutions
for enterprise and carrier
customers. Asia-Pacific is a
region with many of the world’s
fastest growing economies,
populations and broadband
internet demands.
Headquartered in Hong Kong
and Singapore, Pacnet owns and
operates a leading pan-Asian
submarine cable network with
19 cable landing stations, and
points of presence from India
to the USA. The network’s core
comprises EAC-C2C, a state-
of-the-art fiber optic submarine
cable network spanning 36,800
km between Hong Kong,
China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan,
the Philippines and Singapore
well as EAC-Pacific, a 9,620km
Trans-Pacific network linking
Asia to the United States. These
networks are the lifeline for
mission critical operations that
span the globe.
Delivering More for Less, Especially in Subsea Markets
Since subsea networks sit in
demanding environments not
easily accessible, the networks
“Pacnet’s unique position is its ability to offer a true long haul submarine mesh architecture on its core network within the APAC region. Infinera’s DTN-X, with its hardware accelerated FastSMP, will give Pacnet a clear advantage in offering fully protected services and restoration capability for our customers.” —Andy Lumsden, CTO, Pacnet
PACNET
are built, tested and re-tested
to exacting specifications
entailing significant capital
and operational expenditures.
However, in today’s cost
sensitive business environments
this model is not sustainable.
Customers want more speed
and capacity and lower prices,
and operators, like Pacnet,
must prove viable ‘Return on
Investment’ (ROI) focusing on
three key areas:
• Lower cost of capacity on a
Price per Gb/s
• Shrink annual operational
costs
• Reduce cost and complexity of
subsea/terrestrial handoff
After a detailed review of
vendor offerings, we believe
Pacnet chose Infinera’s DTN-X
platform and its Intelligent
Transport Network architecture
as a major contributor to
achieving these ROI objectives.
Infinera’s technological
leadership in large scale
photonic integrated circuits
(PICs), which enables Pacnet
to clearly differentiate service
offerings from those in the
market, was a key factor in
Pacnet’s decision to choose
Infinera. For example,
miniaturization using PIC
technology means that multiple
coherent modulators/receivers,
HD/SD-FEC and complex
optical transmitters can all
be combined into a single
programmable line card that
delivers up to 500 Gb/s super-
channels today, scaling to 1 Tb/s
super-channels in the future.
Infinera’s PICs not only has a
more compact form factor, but
also consumes up to 50% less
power per Gb/s compared to a
discrete component design.
Pacnet also found another
key operational advantage
of the Infinera DTN-X thanks
to the integration of subsea
and terrestrial transponders
deployed in cable landing
points. This meant simpler, more
reliable connections at each of
the cable landing stations. In the
past, the ‘wet’ and ‘dry’ plants
were interconnected using back
to back transponders using
more space, creating additional
failure points and complex
troubleshooting procedures.
Further, through the use of
intelligent GMPLS control plane
technology services can now be
provisioned from a terrestrial
location anywhere on the
network to a terrestrial location
anywhere else, even while
crossing a long reach subsea
network.
Infinera’s DTN-X platform is at the center of simplifying and integrating Pacnet’s subsea
and terrestrial backhaul routes into a new parallel optical mesh network, built upon a
100 Gbps optical core.
Infinera’s DTN-X platform
means that Pacnet can simplify
and integrate their subsea and
terrestrial backhaul routes into
a new parallel optical mesh
network, built upon a super-
channel core.
Reach and Scale Without Sacrificing Flexibility
Unlike competing transponder
based subsea network solutions,
which are built upon fixed
circuit sizes with point to point
connections only, the Infinera
DTN-X offers integrated
switching within Pacnet’s
Submarine Line Terminal
Equipment (SLTE) locations
enabling them to rapidly
add, move and change any
connection to any destination
on-demand. All the while,
the network continues to
operate at optimum capacity
at all times. This is enabled
using Infinera’s ‘Bandwidth
Virtualization’ feature which
allows on-demand, hitless
reconfiguration of any customer
circuit from 1Gb/s to 100Gb/s
while maintaining maximum
network capacity and flexibility.
The result is that the DTN-X’s
integrated switch functionality
allows Pacnet to switch and
groom multiple client services
whenever and wherever needed
onto a single network circuit
without ever sacrificing network
efficiency.
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PACNET
Automated and Shared Mesh Protection
Damage to subsea fiber
networks in the geographically
dispersed Asia-Pacific region
is well-known cost of doing
business. However, thanks
to the FastSMP™ processor
integrated by Infinera into
every DTN-X platform for
hardware acceleration, Pacnet
is able to offer its customers
a highly efficient solution that
can survive multiple fiber cuts
with sub-50ms restoration time.
What that means to end users is
that in the event of catastrophic
failure, their mission critical
applications will almost always
keep running.
Time as a Weapon
In today’s environment of
instant gratification, customers
often want network services as
quickly as possible. In a market
where high-speed services
typically take anywhere from 45-
90 days to deliver, time can be
a powerful competitive weapon.
In fact, using the Intelligent
Transport Network, Infinera has
proven the ability to deliver
entire networks in a few weeks,
as well as network capacity
upgrades in a few seconds
using Instant Bandwidth™.
The ability to respond in such
short timeframes is in dramatic
contrast to many traditional
SLTE DWDM equipment
providers, who typically take
many months to deliver.
Further, with its unique
architecture, Infinera simplifies
customer client interface
modules (e.g. 10, 40, and
100 GbE services) with
programmable and rapid ship
modules. This means, even if a
customer needs new service,
it can be re-programmed in
seconds, or in a worst case
scenario, be shipped to the
customer site usually within
10 days, thanks to Infinera’s
QuickShip rapid shipment
programs.
Results Beyond Expectations
In one of the largest regional
deployment of 100 Gbps
technology to date, Infinera
helped Pacnet build out
their new optical network
infrastructure on the DTN-X
platform within a nine week
timeframe that included both
the Christmas and Chinese New
Year periods.
And with the arrival of the
Terabit Age, we believe
Pacnet’s ability to meet current
and future client interface
requirements without hardware
forklift upgrades is a major
competitive advantage.
Looking further ahead, Pacnet’s
deployment of the Infinera
DTN-X offers tremendous scale.
For example, FlexCoherent
500G super-channels can
be selected with or without
SD-FEC, and these can be
upgraded to flexible grid and to
1 Tb/s in the future.
“The ability to deliver and commission the DTN-X rapidly meant that our network upgrade was fully deployed within nine weeks, allowing us to deliver services to customers with a high level of confidence and resilience. The Infinera solution greatly advances our Layer 3 to Optical convergence and builds the foundation for our newly launched Pacnet Enabled Network, powered by our innovative Network-as-a-Service model.” —Andy Lumsden, CTO, Pacnet