My name is Abdou Dia. I'm the Managing Director of Virtual Technologies and
Solutions. My name is Issam Fayad. I am the CTO of
Virtual Technologies and Solutions. My name is
Nanda Ravindran and I'm the VP of Product Management at
Edgecore Networks. Sanjay Kumar and I am the Chief Marketing Officer here at
IP Infusion. Alan Fagan, and I lead the sales team for EPS Global in North America.
At EPS Global, We collaborated with VTS and we used our expertise to
come up with cost-effective solutions to extend network capacity within Burkina
Faso and to connect multiple cities over a distance of hundreds of kilometers.
VTS in Burkina Faso has deployed an extremely innovative solution to be
able to extend reach and provide bandwidth to
the remote parts of the country. They've been really been a trailblazer
in this entire
endeavor. And IP Infusion has been really excited to be a part of this entire
journey. We provided the network operating system
that really runs on top of edge core hardware and this delivers 200 gigabits
per second bandwidth all the way to very remote areas.
This overall has helped them not only deliver the reach
and the bandwidth that they were looking for, but they've been able
to do it in a manner that has reduced their overall total cost of ownership
and has also enabled them to deliver new services and new streams of revenue.
VTS provide fast, resilient, and affordable broadband access to residential,
enterprise, and wholesale clients in Burkina Faso. Our core network's comprised of
pops in Ghana, U.K., South Africa,
France, Spain. In the U.S. Where we have multiple
transit and peering points with all the major global networks in the world.
To ensure infrastructure is up to date we make sure we invest heavily in our
infrastructure and
to also position us as a leading ISP in the region. Our challenge was to extend our
network capacity from the capital city of Ouagadougou to Burkina Faso to the border
town Dakola which is 200 kilometers away. VTS decided to build a fiber
network to link those two cities and EPS Global provided us the hardware,
software, and the technical support for this deployment.
We leveraged the Telecom Infra Project's Cassini Solution to
dramatically increase bandwidth while reducing TCO.
IP Infusion's fully validated solution is key to our efforts to link these
two major cities. The optical transport solution featuring
IP Infusion's OcNOS and the Edgecore Cassini Transponder
platform. With optical modules helped VTS to
easily add capacity fiber links which improved our operation
experience. This 200Gb link is the first of
its kind in Burkina Faso and will deliver faster,
more reliable connectivity for all of our customers. VTS was able to launch a
capacity of 200Gb per one optical module.
and the fact that the Cassini Transponder has 8 modules, we could push the
capacity up to 1.2Tb per Cassini box.
This provided flexibility on capacity provisioning,
which is serving the growing demand for network connectivity in Burkina Faso.
The centralized management and provisioning layer of IP Infusions OcNOS helps VTS to
adopt network automation which makes service
provisioning and configuration change faster and easier than before.
Edgecore is a leader in open and disaggregated networking.
Edgecore's Cassini is industry's the first open and modular packet
optical transponder. It is based on coherent optical technology and
it has a capacity of 3.2Tbps. Cassini
supports ethernet interfaces and several
line optical line modules. the line modules
can support up to a capacity of 200Gb
and the modules also support in MACsec Security.
The Cassini solution deployment in Burkino Faso is
Africa's first deployment of a packet operating technology.
It is a groundbreaking solution through collaboration between the VTS, EPS Global
and IP infusion. This is one of the highest capacity links in africa and we expect
that link capacity to grow with additional slots available on the
Cassini platform. IP Infusion is a leader in providing
disaggregated solutions to the mobile operator market.
We enable innovation through the use of disaggregated
solutions, running on off-the-shelf hardware
so that the mobile operators can actually
break free from traditional vendor or single vendor kind of
environments, be able to deliver innovation at their own pace and very
importantly, lower their total cost of ownership. Let me tell you a little bit
about the Cassini platform that VTS has deployed. A Cassini
is an optical transponder that's been defined by the Telecom Infra Project.
it's an ecosystem led by Facebook, along with several mobile operators who really
specified what this innovation needs to look
like. And based on those specifications, our network operating system
OcNOS runs on hardware whitebox hardware provided by
Edgecore along with coherent optics from a number of suppliers. In the case of
VTS, they were able to deliver 200Gb/s
links connecting them to far reaching parts of the country and with a
there's a total capacity of about 3.2Tbp/s Full Duplex can that
can be delivered with the Cassini platform. EPS Global works to a wide
range of innovative technology vendors and their team is well recognized for
their customer and tech support. They're extremely well positioned
in the Open Networking ecosystem or partnership with almost all the hardware
and software network disaggregation players around the globe. You know it's
been an absolute pleasure to be part of the entire ecosystem that has brought
the solution together for VTS. As they say it takes a village. And it's
really helped. it's really been great to work with EPS Global.
EPS Global has been a long-standing partner for IP Infusion, and together
we've been addressing lots of opportunities across the globe
and I think what really matters and what makes
EPS Global shine is the
fulfillment capabilities, the reach that they have, the technical support
that they provide, the consulting services,
as well as the integration services that they provide.
So we are excited to work with EPS Global and look forward to continued
partnership. We have created within EPS Global a
really effective team all the way through, we have technical expertise,
we have sales expertise, and then operationally as well.
And the culture within EPS Global is very
customer centric, and
we're able to deliver what the customer wanted
on time and come up with the correct solution for them. We talked a
little bit about EPS Global being uniquely positioned with the hardware
and software relationships, and we've had those relationships for a long time.
We've been a hardware distributor of network components really since the
company was founded in 1999. So I was like over 22 years now.
The software piece, we've been really involved in since about 2015. We started
working with network operating system vendors and using their software with
our hardware to put together solutions that we could go to the market with.
So we have longevity. We have a history of
working with the the best in breed of both hardware and software in Open
Networking and really turning those into solutions that work for our customers.