Wireless Infrastructure

The Internet has provided a number of benefits to both businesses and governments as it provides the ability to move information to a number of different locations very quickly. It also allows organizations to drive transparency, a key demand among government entities.

In an effort to be more transparent, federal agencies are implementing initiatives to move more information to the Internet. This move will also help to drive collaboration between federal government, local government and citizens.

One agency in particular recently required an optimization of their existing network and a network upgrade to support the additional traffic to its site as a result of moving more information and supporting collaboration.

This particular agency operates multiple facilities and data centers stretching between 78 cities and 24 states, making it necessary to find a way to consolidate their network to find management and cost efficiencies. At the same time, this agency also needed to increase capacity on the network to support new applications.

The challenge facing this organization was the need to identify proximity and economics of using 3^rd party fiber networks to reach each site. To accomplish this task, the agency needed to find a way to grow the network while also reducing transport costs.

To deliver a solution, CFN Services (News - Alert) created a business case and pricing inputs for SONET OC12/OC45 services and Dark Fiber. By studying the environment, CFN determined that a hybrid of SONET and Dark Fiber would provide the best cost efficiencies while also growing the network.

In working with the agency, CFN was able to handle the negotiations with contracts and lease schedules for acquisitions of wavelengths and dark fiber rings. The delivery and acceptance of the networks and all testing and verifications were conducted by CFN.

The final solution delivered to this federal agency included the consolidation of the network to ensure only three vendors are necessary to communicate with for optimal performance. CFN Turnkey Financing was also made available to allow the Agency the ability to handle dark and lit fiber as Operational Expenses.

Ongoing building maintenance will be delivered by CFN and will include 24x7x365 NOC (News - Alert) services; emergency dispatch with a 2 hour on-site response for fault isolation and resolution. The overall solution delivers the optimization and transparency necessary to help this agency to drive its priority initiatives.