Customer Demand


With a customer base of more than 12,000 internet, VOIP and IP-TV subscribers and 4,000 customers connected through Wi-Fi at 350 HotSpots in more than 50 cities, as well as 3,000 customers connected through microwave links, as well as more than 50,000 customers for VoIP services connected through internet, it is a challenge for this leading ISP operator to build up a triple-play network that can be easily managed with high reliability, high cost-performance, and lower power consumption.


 


Moreover, this very first triple-play operator in Czech is now providing more than 70 IP-TV Channels, advanced management features to easily and efficiently manage IP-TV network configuration while enabling the optimization of high bandwidth communications and on-demand entertainment, has become another challenge.



 


Network Solution


In this project, the ISP solution that Edge-Core provides consists of L3 Switches ES4612 acting in core rings, L3 Switches ES3628C for connecting wireless units (especially for microwave), more than 400 units of L2 Switches ES3528M and 50 units of L2 switches ES3510, both with slim mechanical design which can be fit in a smaller rack. The fan-less design of ES3528M and ES3510 switches provides noiseless operation and lower power consumption. They also provides full management features including Web, CLI, telnet and SNMP with optional using of ECview graphical management platform. MAC security, IP Source Guard and 802.1x features allows to authorize subscribers and protect network against rogues access. DHCP snooping & DHCP option 82 features ensures that DHCP requests are sent to ISP’s DHCP server.


 


The IP-TV features of Edge-Core’s Triple-Play switches include IGMP Snooping for handling of multicast streams, IGMP Group for easy configuration of TV channels packages, and IGMP Filtering feature which blocks subscribers from accessing IP-TV channels they did not order, and lastly, the IGMP Throttling feature which allows to set the number of IP-TV channels subscriber can receive simultaneously. Finally, Multicast VLAN Registration feature allows sharing of multicast streams in the network while subscribers remain separated by VLAN. That increases network security, saves bandwidth of core lines and saves CPU power of L3 switches by not having to route multicast streams.