26 September 2017
Evolving Networks CEO Nick Johnson says: “Bonded FTTP connections are the natural next step for businesses craving more bandwidth and the resilience that a paper SLA can’t deliver in practice.”
Video production firm Event Alchemy has deployed what’s claimed to be the UK’s first FTTP connection.
The aggregated lines are said to deliver download speeds of 450Mbps which is eight times more than the company’s previous capacity.
Poole-based Event Alchemy needed a network that could support high-speed download and upload capabilities in order to stream HD video.
But in the absence of FTTC and ADSL, it was using a leased line to partially enable this.
This changed when FTTP became available in the region.
Event Alchemy is now using two FTTP lines that are aggregated using Evolving Networks’ proprietary network virtualisation software and Intelligent Network Fabric (INF), all supported by its software-defined multi-VNO access network. Evolving Networks CEO Nick Johnson says a bonded FTTP connection was the best solution for the company, providing resilience as well as added capacity.
“While FTTP did provide an increase in both upload and download capacity, a single connection was still not sufficient to meet the needs of the events company,” he says. “For example, Event Alchemy would only have been getting an upload speed of 30Mbps, which just isn’t good enough given the types of video and data they’re sending.
The vendor adds that by controlling every data packet, business critical cloud apps are prioritised over bulk data transfers.
As a result, it claims Event Alchemy now uses VoIP to make phone bill savings and improve productivity with better call handling functionality.
Evolving Networks says other features of the INF running over multiple FTTP connections are TCP optimisation, compression and zero-touch QoS.
The solution includes Event Alchemy’s leased line which will only be used until the contract with the carrier expires.
Evolving Networks says this will ensure the company maximises its return on investment and makes full use of the bandwidth available, not waste it on failover lines.
