The Complementarity of Virtualisation and Next Generation Networks

The capabilities of an NGN can act as a key enabler of virtualised IT resources. In fact, it could be argued that any decisions about the underlying communications network should be central to the virtualisation project overall. This concept is explored in more detail in this paper.

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Business Vs Consumer Grade Next Generation Networks

Whilst most Communication Providers (CPs) in the UK are focused on addressing the current and future needs of UK consumers, Exponential-e is entirely focused on the business community. The Exponential-e network has been designed and engineered to create a new suite of business grade products and tools to build cutting edge solutions optimised for medium to large enterprises.

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NGN Now: Delivering on The Promise of NGN With Ethernet

The premise of this paper is simple;

“Unequivocally, a Next Generation Network (NGN) will greatly enhance your business. Their technical superiority and versatility as a network infrastructure facilitates the advance in corporate agility that companies need to compete in today’s accelerated global business environment. And for those corporates looking to embrace this new infrastructure technology, it is easy for the true NGN-based carriers that have done their homework to demonstrate how and where a NGN will deliver the requisite ROI, competitive advantage and cost optimisation.”

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Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) - Backgrounder

A VPLS-enabled Next Generation Network (NGN) enables the provision of Ethernet based multipoint-to-multipoint communication over IP/MPLS networks. It makes it possible for geographically dispersed sites to share an Ethernet broadcast domain by connecting multiple sites through pseudo wires to a central bridge.

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Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) Technical Tutorial

One of the main reasons why Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS), generally accepted as the de-facto convergence technology, is so attractive to service providers, is that MPLS facilitates the deployment and management of Virtual Private Networks (VPN). While MPLSbased layer 3 VPNs have been gaining considerable momentum in the industry for some time, many now acknowledge that MPLS-based layer 2 VPNs, particularly Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS), will become very important in a service provider’s service offering. VPLS enables service providers to offer multipoint Ethernet "Virtual LAN" services to a large number of customers. This technical tutorial describes the basic operation of VPLS and the requirements on the different involved network elements.

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