1. TELECOMMUNICATIONS EVOLUTION
Presented By:
Cheryl O’Brien
Founder and President of
Technology Management Corporation

2. LEARNING OBJECTIVES Driving force behind the change
Meeting customer demands fast enough
How to bullet proof the customer
Design options to safeguard against legacy networks

3. How did everything get so messed up?
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4. How did everything get so messed up?
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5. How did everything get so messed up?
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6. How did everything get so messed up?
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7. DRIVING FORCE BEHIND THE BANDWIDTH REQUIREMENTS

8. What is SLOWING THE customer DOWN?
Q & A
Legacy systems, models and protocol
Too many manual processes
Current CAPEX & OPEX constraints preventing large scale transformations

9. Buyer requirements
Q & A

10. Things only change if there is a need to CHANGE!
Key factors for CARRIER Change?
Things only change if there is a need to CHANGE!
Continued Operating Expenses for Legacy Equipment in Central Office Switches
Internet
LECs & CLECs
Cyber Security
Dotcom Burst
Carrier Mergers & Acquisitions
Nortel & Avaya
Cisco & BroadSoft
Fujitsu
Apps & IoT

11. Key life cycles Title Carrier mergers & acquisitions TDM life cycle
VoIP life cycle
Ethernet & SD-WAN life cycle
Centrex to on-premise to Cloud

12. Title CARRIER WAN Equipment Life Cycle – PROTECT THE CUSTOMER
Equipment in CO
Terminating equipment at client site
TDM Multiplexers
OC48/OC12/OC3/DS3/DS1
Tech time & order processing
Client grows out of it
Immediate response – bandwidth on-demand
Access charges
Wholesale – hidden side of the customer pricing
Ports
DOMINO EFFECT!

13. IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT VOICE & DATA ANYMORE
Q & A x

14. technology Requirement changes
Q & A
SUPER BOWL LII – US Bank Stadium
1.7m watts of LED sports lighting
Integrated stadium apps
57 bowl speaker arrays
2,000 4k HD IPTV large format monitors
150x60 (west) & 110x50 (east) LED scoreboards
5 ribbon boards
2 external LED displays
10-gigabit bandwidth connections burstable to 40-gigabits
482 point of sale terminals
440 security cameras
1,300 HD Wi-Fi access points connecting to Metro
850 DAS antennas

15. Bandwidth Requirement changes
Q & A
SUPER BOWL LII – US Bank Stadium
Stadium platform is Cisco's Digital Network Architecture
Cisco Connected Stadium Wi-Fi for a high-density wireless network
Over 9,000 ports (devices) report to the stadium LAN
Cisco access lights
About 2,100 HD TVs in the stadium
About 700 Cisco handsets for the phone system
About 1,200 access points on the high density Wi-Fi side
Six - 10 Gbps circuits coming into the stadium
550 miles of fiber into the stadium
1,200 antennas for DAS
6,200 miles of Cat6 Ethernet copper wiring into the stadium
122 new & enhanced AT&T cell sites and 230 Verizon small cell sites in metro area
16 new DAS systems throughout the metro: hotels, Mall of America, arenas, convention centers
MatSing (short for multi-beam base station antenna) balls aloft, each carrying dozens of cellular antenna for ground cover
New neutral host DAS at the MSP International Airport with new 4G LTE coverage in tunnels, to boost Verizon's network capacity at the airport by more than 1,000%
16.31 TB during the game inside the US Bank Stadium itself
50.2 TB of cellular usage during the game

16. TIME DIVISION TO WAVE DIVISION
Q & A
Time Division to Wave Division Highlights:
Normal – Course - Dense
DWDM 40 channels at 100GHzC-Band (1530 nm-1565 nm) & now L-band
Doped fiber amplifiers (DFAs) – replacing SONET – its ALL about the equipment at the end

17. SD WAN Benefits to enable transformation
Hybrid WAN
Integrates private and public links into a hybrid architecture
Private network
Abstracted overlay creates a VPN across connection points
Dynamic path selection
Business policies automatically prioritize and de-prioritize traffic
Centralized management
‘Single pane of glass’ customer portal offers deep visibility
Flexibility & Agility
Ubiquitous access connects disparate locations
Converged Solutions
Converges voice, data and video apps with low-touch provisioning
Dual active links
Redundant and/or diverse connections at each site increase resiliency
Managed service
Vendor manages, maintains and monitors the solution

18. Cloud solution highlights
Q & A
Leverage state-of-the-art, fully redundant IP Network
Utilize best-in-class, resilient & highly secure data centers
Georedundancy
Multi-tenant or single-tenant
Deliver SLAs that provide % application layer uptime
Utilize carrier-grade network with SD-WAN, MPLS and Internet or BYOB
Offer 24x7 remote & onsite monitoring and support – different models
Optimize performance & scalability to fit customer needs

19. Cyber Security Q & A Encryption: Virtual Private Network: Firewall:
All application traffic encrypted with IPsec, making any access type a secure connection.
Encryption makes broadband Internet “fit for purpose” in an enterprise environment.
Virtual Private Network:
Access agnostic virtual private network.
Data is safe and secure no matter how your employees or customers access it.
Firewall:
Firewalls included with every edge device to protect every location.
Easily create security polices via the centralized Management Tool on a network wide, regional or location basis.

20. Q & A CONSULTANT OPPORTUNITIES TO SAFEGUARD THE CUSTOMER
Enhance the customer experience
Customer analytics / application integration
Enable digital transformation
Mobility, flexibility and accessibility
IT agility
Cost efficiency replacing outdated IT infrastructure
CAPEX to OPEX model analysis
Cyber Security risks
Multi-site platform standardization
Business seasonality / speed & scale