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Carrier Ethernet End User Case Studies

• Carrier Ethernet for Business• 4 Video Case Studies

– Covering Healthcare, Finance and Education

• Key IT Benefits

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Carrier Ethernet Defined

Carrier Ethernet for the Enterprise:

The MEF has defined Carrier Ethernet as

• A ubiquitous, standardized, carrier-class Service and Network defined by five attributes that distinguish it from familiar LAN based Ethernet  

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Carrier Ethernet for Business Summary

• Top Market Sectors• Healthcare, finance, education, government, media

• Principal Applications• Site-to-site access, server consolidation, business

continuity / disaster recovery, software as a service (SaaS), service orientated architecture (SOA), Internet access, distributed digital imaging, converged networking

• Benefits• Scalability, control, reliability, performance, data center &

server consolidation, expedites and enables new applications

• Cost reduction, revenue acceleration

Carrier Ethernet brings significant business benefits to mission critical applications

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Healthcare

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Virginia Mason Medical Center

• Key Facts

– Situated in Seattle, USA with 10 branches and numerous clinics spread across hundreds of square miles.

– Ranked amongst top 5% in the nation based on health grades.

– Network is comprised of 5,000 nodes & phones, 4,000 desktop devices & 250 servers.

– Each patient’s scans need to be analyzed by multiple specialists located in different locations.

– Many cases require 1,000+ scans per patient, Film-based scanning is inefficient and costly.

– Required a solution to link mobile CT scanners to main clinic in real time.

• Key Facts

– Situated in Seattle, USA with 10 branches and numerous clinics spread across hundreds of square miles.

– Ranked amongst top 5% in the nation based on health grades.

– Network is comprised of 5,000 nodes & phones, 4,000 desktop devices & 250 servers.

– Each patient’s scans need to be analyzed by multiple specialists located in different locations.

– Many cases require 1,000+ scans per patient, Film-based scanning is inefficient and costly.

– Required a solution to link mobile CT scanners to main clinic in real time.

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Virginia Mason Medical Center

• The Legacy WAN: – Based on satellite and multiple T1’s

• Replacement Network Criteria: – High speed. Required 100mb+ connection to each remote

branch and clinic.

– Reliable – zero packet loss to ensure real-time transfer of large images to multiple clinics.

– Scalable – to support upgrade from 4-16-64 slice CT scans.

– Cost – VMMC is a non-profit organization.

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Virginia Mason Medical Center

• The Benefits: – VMCC can now provide a centralized diagnostics service.

• Real-time transfer and diagnosis of images whilst patient is still in the scanner.

• Centralized diagnostics service – multiple specialists based in different locations viewing identical image.

• Significantly reduces time and costs associated with patient diagnosis.

• Exceeded customer expectations.

• Very cost efficient.

• The Solution: – Ethernet Virtual Private Line (EVPL)

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Finance

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Chicago Mercantile Exchange

• Key Facts

– World’s largest & most diversified financial exchange.

– Transacted 1.3 billion contracts with a value of$800 trillion in 2006.

– Trades more notional value in 1 month than combined NYSE & NASDAQ does in 1 year.

– International exchange with PoPs in 88 countries.

– Clearing $2-3 trillion dollars a day – primarily in futures.

– CME also acts as Application Solutions Provider for other Exchanges e.g. NY Mercantile Exchange & Chicago Board of Trade.

– Globex – electronic trading now 75%+ of CME business.

• Key Facts

– World’s largest & most diversified financial exchange.

– Transacted 1.3 billion contracts with a value of$800 trillion in 2006.

– Trades more notional value in 1 month than combined NYSE & NASDAQ does in 1 year.

– International exchange with PoPs in 88 countries.

– Clearing $2-3 trillion dollars a day – primarily in futures.

– CME also acts as Application Solutions Provider for other Exchanges e.g. NY Mercantile Exchange & Chicago Board of Trade.

– Globex – electronic trading now 75%+ of CME business.

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Chicago Mercantile Exchange

• The Legacy WAN: – Based on Frame Relay & ATM.

– Speed, scalability & pricing were constraining factors.

• Replacement Network Criteria: – Scalable - from 20mb to 100mb & eventually 1Gb to

customer premises.

– Reliability - with zero packet loss.

– Performance – latency of less then 3ms.

– Provisioning & management.

– Security.

– Global availability.

– Cost.

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Chicago Mercantile Exchange

• The Solution: – Ethernet Virtual Private Line (EVPL).

• The Benefits: – Cost-effective bandwidth increments to their customers.

– Easier to maintain, support and scale.

– Met or exceeded replacement network specification criteria.

– V-LAN tagging provided network security demanded by CME customers.

– Migration - transitioned 200 clients within first 9 months.

– Sound platform for future growth.

– Customer satisfaction.

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Education

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New York Law School

• Key Facts

– Preeminent independent law school founded in 1891.

– Based in lower Manhattan – 8 blocks from ground zero.– Strict security access regulations for underground cable access.

– 3 sites:-– Main campus – currently a construction site.

– Temporary accommodation – across the street.

– Halls of residence – several blocks away.

– Needed a new WAN built within an “impossible timescale” and amidst construction chaos.

– Seamless transition from legacy network during vacation.

• Key Facts

– Preeminent independent law school founded in 1891.

– Based in lower Manhattan – 8 blocks from ground zero.– Strict security access regulations for underground cable access.

– 3 sites:-– Main campus – currently a construction site.

– Temporary accommodation – across the street.

– Halls of residence – several blocks away.

– Needed a new WAN built within an “impossible timescale” and amidst construction chaos.

– Seamless transition from legacy network during vacation.

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New York Law School

• The Legacy WAN:

– Multiple T1 circuits.

– Wireless link between main building and temporary accommodation across the street.

• Replacement Network Criteria:

– Scalable – to meet current + future bandwidth demands of new applications such as IPTV & collaborative learning.

– High-speed Internet access.

– Provisioning & management.

– Seamless virtual LAN between main campus and HoR.

– Cost.

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New York Law School

• The Solution: – Ethernet Virtual Private Line (EVPL).

• The Benefits: – Cost-effective bandwidth increments as required.

– Easier to maintain, support and scale.

– Secure V-LAN.

– Future proof foundation for new applications.

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Bergen County School

• Key Facts• 2,000 full time students, 20,000 adult students,

• Legacy WAN• legacy network poorly integrated and vulnerable

with disaster discovery being cost prohibitve

• The Solution• Integrated Carrier

Ethernet Network

• Benefits• Higher Bandwidth, Lower Costs • Integrated cost effective disaster recovery• Collaboration – creation of global learning

community

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• Application Profile• Scalability, Reach Convergence demands on low latency,

low frame loss, minimum frame delay variation, high performance networks

• Video, streaming media. Massive increase in Ethernet co-located services

A Key Market for Carrier Ethernet

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Carrier Ethernet Addresses Key IT Issues

• Key IT Benefits– Accelerates implementations with reduced resources for

overburdened IT departments to improve productivity– Enables new applications and simplifies application

development. • Traditional WAN infrastructures can’t scale or meet new

performance requirements– Simplifies operations for worldwide standardized business

services and control over network application elements– Provides highly responsive changes to bandwidth

demands

• Reduces operational costs

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