INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Cabling
KENET in Kenya upgrades its
carrier Ethernet network to 100GE
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elco Systems, a leading provider of
innovative SDN/NFV, CE 2.0, MPLS
and IP solutions, has completed an
upgrade of the carrier Ethernet network
of Kenya Education Network (KENET), the
National Research and Education Network
(NREN) of Kenya, from 10GE to 100GE.
As the NREN of Kenya, KENET provides
high-speed Internet access and data centre
services to member university campuses and
research facilities across the country and
interconnectivity with other NRENs around
the world. KENET also provides shared
cloud-based services, including co-location of
servers, dedicated virtual servers for e-learning
systems and video and web conferencing.
Three years ago, Telco Systems supplied
KENET with its IP/MPLS technologies that
were used to build KENET’s 10GE carrier
Ethernet network, which was managed and
fully orchestrated by an aggregation and
demarcation solution.
For this 100GE network upgrade, Telco
Systems delivered its T-Metro 8100 service
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aggregation platform and cloud gateway.
T-Metro 8100 provides carrier Ethernet
2.0, MPLS, IP (Layer 3) and SDN
capabilities and offers massive service
scalability and carrier class resiliency.
T-Metro 8100 includes industry leading
features like QoS, SLA management and
OAM. It is built with a modular architecture
designed with future expansion capabilities,
such as adding compute nodes or new
networking capabilities. “We have been working with Telco Systems
for five years now and we have developed
trust and confidence in the company and its
technologies,” said Professor Meoli Kashorda,
Executive Director of KENET.
For KENET, these T-Metro 8100 devices
are managed and orchestrated by Telco
Systems’ EdgeGenie Orchestrator service
provisioning management system, which
was also previously deployed in 2013 when
Telco Systems originally supplied KENET’s
carrier Ethernet network. Ariel Efrati, CEO at Telco Systems, added:
“More and more service providers around the
world are upgrading their network capacities
to 100GE in order to better serve their
customers and grow their businesses and
we are proud to be supporting KENET in this
important move.
By upgrading its network capacity to
100GE, KENET has been able to improve
the quality of existing services, offer
additional advanced services and meet
the growing bandwidth requirements
of its education and research institution
customers and their users. “We are experiencing strong traction in the
education vertical and our T-Metro 8100
solution is well-positioned to help network
operators serving this market space, especially
the government E-Rate projects in the United
States, to upgrade their networks and improve
the performance of their services.” n
“Telco Systems has played a strategic role in
the expansion of our network and the services
from 1GE to 10GE and now to 100GE and I
am certain that the company will continue to
do so for many years to come.”
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