tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69538261669117643262024-03-13T13:09:17.678-07:00Managed Ethernet Access BlogIn this Blog Creanord CTO Antti Pappila share his thoughts about challenges and solutions related to Managed Ethernet Access and Network Performance Management technologies<strong>Managed Ethernet Access Blog by Creanord CTO</strong>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09480082680080469369noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6953826166911764326.post-83509868125004045812011-01-02T03:30:00.000-08:002011-01-02T03:39:59.681-08:00Lighting-up LTE towers faster with Zero Touch<a href="http://www.creanord.com/echonews/optimize-lte-mobile-backhaul-ethernet-turn-up.html"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 190px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 126px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="Optimize LTE Ethernet Backhaul Turn-up" src="http://www.creanord.com/echonews/Dec10/Plug-go-goes-zero-touch.jpg" /></a><br />Service providers need to light-up growing number of LTE towers and reduce operational expenditure. With EchoVault Zero Touch, the whole Mobile Backhaul turn-up is completed automatically within minutes from the initial device power-up.<br /><br />EchoNEWS December 2010 covers: <a href="http://www.creanord.com/echonews/optimize-lte-mobile-backhaul-ethernet-turn-up.html">Lighting-up LTE towers faster with Zero Touch</a>.<br /><br />Let me know how you like the article and Follow our Twitter Feed at <a href="http://twitter.com/creanord">Creanord Twitter</a><a href="http://twitter.com/creanord"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; FLOAT: right; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="Follow Creanord Twitter" src="http://www.creanord.com/echonews/Aug10/follow_us-a.png" /></a><strong>Managed Ethernet Access Blog by Creanord CTO</strong>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09480082680080469369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6953826166911764326.post-52338373063247755822010-10-18T00:22:00.000-07:002010-10-18T02:00:43.572-07:00Ethernet SLA Reporting Portal<a href="http://www.creanord.com/echonews/Ethernet-SLA-Customer-Reporting-Portal.html"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 190px; height: 126px;" src="http://www.creanord.com/echonews/Sep10/Interactive-Ethernet-SLA-Reports.png" border="0" alt="EchoVault Portal 2.0 - The Ultimate Ethernet SLA Reporting Portal" /></a><br />This is a quick post letting you all know that our Latest Issue of EchoNews features EchoVault Portal 2.0 - The Ultimate Ethernet SLA Reporting Portal and is now online at Creanord <a href="http://www.creanord.com/echonews/Ethernet-SLA-Customer-Reporting-Portal.html">EchoNews</a>. The importance of customer reporting portals is becoming a necessity since end user expectations are becoming higher and the amount and value of data travelling through fixed and especially mobile networks is exploding. The EchoVault Portal 2.0 is well suited for reporting Mobile Backhaul SLA and other KPI from today's widely spread networks. <br /><br />Let me know how you like the article and Follow our Twitter Feed at <a href="http://twitter.com/creanord">Creanord Twitter</a><a href="http://twitter.com/creanord"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://www.creanord.com/echonews/Aug10/follow_us-a.png" border="0" alt="Follow Creanord Twitter" /></a><strong>Managed Ethernet Access Blog by Creanord CTO</strong>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09480082680080469369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6953826166911764326.post-69107199394586646262010-09-03T12:50:00.000-07:002010-09-03T12:51:20.377-07:00Ethernet SLA Reports revised with EchoVault 3S Reports<a href="http://www.creanord.com/echonews/EchoVault-3S-Reports-Saved-Sheduled-Shared.html"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 190px; height: 126px;" src="http://www.creanord.com/echonews/Aug10/3S-Reports.jpg" border="0" alt="SLA Reporting revised by EchoVault 3S Reports" /></a><br />This is a quick post letting you all know that our Latest Issue of EchoNews features EchoVault 3S Reports and is now online at Creanord <a href="http://www.creanord.com/echonews/EchoVault-3S-Reports-Saved-Sheduled-Shared.html">EchoNews</a>. With 3S Reports Ethernet SLA reporting practises are revised, reducing manual work to minimum when composing and delivering top quality reports to your customers and internal interest groups.<br /><br />Let me know how you like the article and Follow our Twitter Feed at <a href="http://twitter.com/creanord">Creanord Twitter</a><a href="http://twitter.com/creanord"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://www.creanord.com/echonews/Aug10/follow_us-a.png" border="0" alt="Follow Creanord Twitter" /></a><strong>Managed Ethernet Access Blog by Creanord CTO</strong>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09480082680080469369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6953826166911764326.post-87038737925149324772010-08-23T01:44:00.000-07:002010-08-23T03:02:29.733-07:00LTE Pilot shows good results in TeliaSonera Finland<a href="http://www.creanord.com/web/images/echovault-traffic-meter.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 203px;" src="http://www.creanord.com/web/images/echovault-traffic-meter.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />LTE or Long Term Evolution is 3GPP standard for Mobile Networks and is evolution for family of WCDMA based wireless networks.<br /><br />But what does the standard really mean for us?<br /><br />Recently Finnish TIETOKONE Magazine reported pretty interesting results from TeliaSonera's LTE test zone of 7 LTE Release 8 base stations in city of Turku, Southwest Finland.<br /><br />According to their tests peak download speed of 40 Mbps was reached and for example downloads from the magazine's web library was 22 Megs by average. But what was even more impressive to me was the fact that RTD (round trip delay) to FICIX (Finnish Internet Exchange) took only 32 millisec by average. This is far better than what we get from 3G today. I'd say that getting more bandwidth with LTE is great but less delay translates to better end user experience thus is even more important.<br /><br />All in all these results are good news for Web Video content providers waiting to get their content to Mobile Phones and Tablets.<br /><br />So what these results tell to me and our company?<br /><br />Let's note that the results are from Pilot network that is hardly congested at all.<br /><br />When the Mobile Web Video hit's the prime time I guess we have some <a href="http://www.creanord.com/web/content/echovault-ethernet-service-assurance-oam.html">traffic</a> & performance monitoring to do. Also our Windows Agent with TCP Download Speed Test could be pretty useful tool to assest the network prior any public launch.<strong>Managed Ethernet Access Blog by Creanord CTO</strong>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09480082680080469369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6953826166911764326.post-56360643681806480562010-08-20T04:15:00.000-07:002010-08-23T04:00:24.366-07:00Nokia N9 QWERTY-slidin' with Intel/Nokia Meego OS (Linux) leaked!<a href="http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2010/08/19/article-1282232669181-0AD96D7E000005DC-867285_636x421.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 159px; height: 105px;" src="http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2010/08/19/article-1282232669181-0AD96D7E000005DC-867285_636x421.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>While ago Iphone changed the smartphone market place with large nice to use touch screen and good web apps. Since then mobile data usage has rocketed to new heights around the world.<br /><br />Now Nokia, teamed with Intel is gearing up to take the high end smartphone leader position back from Iphone and Android phones.<br /><br />The <strong>Nokia N9</strong> smartphone or Mobile Computer like Nokia like to call it's powerhouse is not only running <strong>Linux based Meego OS</strong>, jointly developed by Nokia and Intel, but ships with sleek aluminium casing and what is more important, full <strong>QWERTY</strong> slidin' keyboard.<br /><br />We can only guess what impact this phone has for mobile web usage specially in areas where Nokia has been traditionally very strong. And let's face it - touch screen is nice, but phone with both keyboard and touch screen is far better in Web usage.<br /><br />While waiting for official launch by Nokia, here's link to the leak post<br /><br /><a href="http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/19/nokias-qwerty-slidin-n9-shows-up-in-the-wilds-of-china/">Read www.engadget.com/2010/08/19/nokias-qwerty-slidin-n9-shows-up-in-the-wilds-of-china/</a><strong>Managed Ethernet Access Blog by Creanord CTO</strong>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09480082680080469369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6953826166911764326.post-59899427772463110942010-07-05T10:05:00.000-07:002010-09-03T08:16:50.424-07:00EchoVault Event Dashboard and Throughput Meter now OnlineThis is just a quick post letting you all know that our June Issue of EchoNews is now online at Creanord <a href="http://www.creanord.com/echonews/EchoVault-Event-Dashboard-and-Throughput-Meter.html">EchoNews</a>.<br /><br />Let me know how you like the article. It would be also nice to hear what you think about <a href="http://www.creanord.com/echonews/EchoVault-Event-Dashboard-and-Throughput-Meter.html">Throughput Meter</a> & Event Dashboard.<strong>Managed Ethernet Access Blog by Creanord CTO</strong>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09480082680080469369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6953826166911764326.post-10547349073716061362010-06-17T13:22:00.000-07:002010-06-17T14:04:47.793-07:00All you can eat Mobile data will prevail - NSN to the rescueI still remember a time when dial-up Internet was billed using credits that needed to be bought upfront. I must admit that I was bit schocked first when I heared about AT&T plans to kill the all you can eat data plans. Back to the stone age I thought. While the plan received lot of support from the media and tech community there were also other opinions. As an good example from December 2009 this Business Week article: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2009/tc20091210_799838.htm">AT&T Possible Price Moves May Backfire</a> <br /><br />The above mentioned article was brought to my attention on December 12th and I replied to the email that was linking to the article like this:<br /><br />"""I agree with Business Week article about problems of tiered pricing models and trying to educate the users. Both just backfire according to my opinion. Let me ask how many of us are willing to have “usage based” pricing for our home broadband or like to receive letters from ISP stating that you use too much network, cut back or else…? <br /><br />Luckily there’s (easy to implement) technical solution to the problem that allows provider to control “the bandwidth hungry few” without them knowing it. True win-win.<br /><br />Actually we had exactly same problem in fixed Internet in a past (starting from university campuses where P2P traffic started to eat all the available bandwidth) and solved it by dynamically allocating bandwidth to all users in fair round robin manner. Staselog is the company I have worked in a past to solve those above mentioned problems."""<br /><br />Well, to be honest I thought that AT&T is on the other side of the Atlantic and that the European Providers would not go that far. Never say never: O2 in UK followed footsteps of US-based AT&T: <a href="http://www.commsbusiness.co.uk/RSS_News_Articles.cfm?NewsID=11151">Death of all you can eat data, says O2</a><br /><br />Now you might wonder why the title of this Blog is saying that All you can eat Mobile data will prevail. <br /><br />This week Finnish Provider Elisa issued the press release where they explain new Quality of Service (QoS) implementation, developed by NSN, being live first in the world (<a href="http://www.tietokone.fi/uutiset/elisa_haluaa_tiedostonjakajat_kuriin_3g_verkossaan">In Finnish, Sorry</a>). <br /><br />While the article still talks about challenges that need further attention I still believe we are in a verse of starting to see similar news all around the world soon. Let's see how long AT&T and it's followers are able to compete with the Providers that offer All You Can Eat Buffet.<strong>Managed Ethernet Access Blog by Creanord CTO</strong>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09480082680080469369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6953826166911764326.post-28598761823913443622010-03-18T10:01:00.000-07:002010-03-18T10:14:14.413-07:00Mobile World Congress wants Active Service MonitoringI just stumbled upon this article about MWC at European Telecom Blog. <a href="http://mccanntelecom.com/wishes-from-the-mwc">http://mccanntelecom.com/wishes-from-the-mwc</a><br /><br />Very interesting to see that industry is now really after Ethernet and Mobile Backhaul with advanced Performance Monitoring and Service Level Management capabilities.<br /><br />John McCann says: "The MWC was a fantastic opportunity to talk with a number of carriers and vendors who all know that there is an issue but I have yet to see anyone who has a complete end-to-end solution. Some vendors have great radios, some vendors monitor excellently, and some vendors offer a cost efficient way of backhauling. As has happened many times before a very clever network engineer somewhere around the world will come up with a way to solve these problems elegantly without going way over budget and ensuring a consistently good revenue stream.<br /><br />Are you that engineer?"<br /><br />At least I think we can say that we have already most of the pieces of the puzzle in place, maybe we should attend MWC next year :)<strong>Managed Ethernet Access Blog by Creanord CTO</strong>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09480082680080469369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6953826166911764326.post-35821898169001248352009-07-13T09:18:00.000-07:002009-07-13T09:21:25.665-07:00TWAMP 'ing RFC 5357 - A Two-Way Active Measurement Protocol<strong>RFC 5357 - A Two-Way Active Measurement Protocol (TWAMP)</strong><br /><br />I have been following up TWAMP ever since Brix Networks (now Exfo Service Assurance) CTO Kaynam Hedayat came up with the idea a long time ago. I'm glad to see that Juniper with Junos and Ciena are starting to support the spec and joining the "lonely" TWAMP pioneer vendor Allied Telesyn. But how about Cisco who still fight the standards with it's IP SLA solution?<br /><br />Maybe 2010 will be the year when providers are starting to use the TWAMP standard but it's also possible that TWAMP is little too late to be very popular. The L2 CFM like Y.1731 and 802.1ag are gaining a lot of ground with vendors such as Alcatel-Lucent clearing the path. We'll see - Do you have any comments?<strong>Managed Ethernet Access Blog by Creanord CTO</strong>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09480082680080469369noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6953826166911764326.post-35665598620532566792009-06-08T10:59:00.000-07:002009-06-08T12:56:51.593-07:00Scripting it all - or not?<strong>What's the nature of the scripting.</strong><br /><br />Scripting is great in automating some task such as creating a new accounts in Unix. Tons of other examples are out there - no doubt about it. But enough is enough. Trying to solve service or performance management challenges with scripts does not fly. Quick proof of <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">concept</span> with limited amount of network elements will be a success. I'm talking about safe lab <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">environment</span> where all devices share same firmware, default configuration and unexpected events are just a scary dream.<br /><br />But when we're talking about scalable service provider solutions there's totally different beast to tackle. Then we must walk instead of talk. All scripts, now called software are developed and tested by full time professionals. And continuous <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">improvements</span> in quality and function not to mention scalability is must.<br /><br />So what's difference between software and scripts? The software, even with some bugs is <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">meant</span> to fly - and continue to fly safely where scripts will do the trick until limits are reached and wings burned.<strong>Managed Ethernet Access Blog by Creanord CTO</strong>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09480082680080469369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6953826166911764326.post-38981737242149113812009-06-03T10:42:00.000-07:002009-06-03T11:03:19.518-07:00Standardized Service Catalog by CreanordService Providers need to be ever more efficient in order to succeed. Amongst many other things Service Providers must be able to productize new services, sell and deliver services with shorter time-to-revenue than ever before. This can only be achieved with standardized products and services. Otherwise operational efficiency will suffer and customer churn will grow. Standardized products and services still need to be delivered without compromising the service flexibility. Creanord EchoVault provides you the tools to achieve these goals. Just take a look <a href="http://www.creanord.com/web/content/echovault.html">http://www.creanord.com/web/content/echovault.html</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong>Creanord EchoVault benefits </strong><br /><br />Our Creanord EchoVault delivers standardized service catalog for Ethernet Access products and services through Service Creator. The Service Creator provides a flexible way for creating service templates which act as a foundation for different types of new Ethernet services. EchoVault automatically stores the created service templates and delivers change management information for the product management throughout the whole Ethernet services lifecycle. The service provisioning with EchoVault is done with a click of a mouse after the service is selected from the standardized service catalog. Creanord EchoVault automatically configures the service parameters to all selected Ethernet access devices eliminating the possibility for human errors, witch often occur when services are created separately for each access device. The service delivery can be further automated by using Creanord EchoVault´s XML based Provisioning Interface enabling true OSS (Operations Support System) integration with order fulfillment system of choice.<br /><br /><br /><strong>Automated topology aware SLA-Meter</strong><br /><br />Creanord EchoVault provides automated topology aware SLA meter for performance and Service Level Agreement (SLA) monitoring. Template driven provisioning of the customer specific SLA is as easy as provisioning the Ethernet service. Easy operation is achieved with EchoVault topology algorithm supporting point-to-point, hub-and-spoke and mesh topologies. Hideous manual configuration of each measurement leg is eliminated thus less time is spent for delivering a complete SLA backed carrier class Ethernet service.<strong>Managed Ethernet Access Blog by Creanord CTO</strong>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09480082680080469369noreply@blogger.com0