Colt Fast-Tracks the Delivery of New Services with Cisco Segment Routing and Ethernet VPN
April 05 2018 - 3:00AM
Cisco and Colt Technology Services announced today that they have
successfully achieved a key milestone in upgrading Colt's
pan-European, US and Asian packet network. This lays the foundation
for the Colt IQ Network to deliver further differentiated,
high-bandwidth connectivity solutions.
Cisco and Colt revealed in December 2016 that
they were working on a system-wide, multiple 100Gbps upgrade to
Colt's IQ Network. This will enable it to rapidly deliver
high-performance connectivity for cloud-scale, business-critical
applications to its enterprise, carrier and web-centric customers.
By combining segment routing and Ethernet VPN (EVPN), Colt’s IQ
Network now benefits from faster convergence time, increased
network availability and resiliency for any topology, while
enabling the service provider to deliver high-bandwidth solutions
much faster.
Colt's next-generation packet network uses
end-to-end segment routing technology to simplify and automate
network operation and significantly reduce operating costs. With
the quality, speed, capacity and flexibility to meet
application-specific service quality requirements, Colt’s customers
will benefit from an infrastructure designed for enabling digital
businesses.
“Colt is focused on providing best-in-class,
high-bandwidth connectivity solutions to meet our customers’
ever-growing business needs,” said Peter Coppens, vice
president, Product, Colt. “Aligning with these overarching
goals, we worked closely with Cisco to design a network
architecture that is simple to operate, highly available and
capable of delivering innovative network services. This also
enables Colt to benefit from faster time-to-market. Segment routing
significantly decreased complexity in the IQ Network and helped us
start offering differentiated network services such as disjoint
path. EVPN further contributed to operational simplification and
made the delivery of services much more efficient.”
Colt’s IQ Network connects more than 800 data
centres around the globe, with more than 25,000 on-net buildings,
providing high-bandwidth network and voice services for enterprises
and wholesale customers in Europe, Asia and North America. EVPN
drives the next level of simplicity by offering a unified control
plane protocol (Border Gateway Protocol - BGP) for all services
types, including both Layer 2 VPN and Layer 3 VPN services. It also
provides faster convergence times that significantly enhances the
customer experience. Segment routing reduces the network
complexity, as it cuts down the number of protocols required. It
also:
- improves network availability with 50ms protection mechanism,
covering 100% of the possible network topologies using TI-LFA
SR;
- enables better utilization of the network with simple and
scalable MPLS segment routing traffic engineering for the data
plane;
- makes possible the delivery of innovative network services
possible, offering on-demand real time delivery capabilities.
The Cisco Network Convergence System (NCS) 5500
series and the Cisco Aggregation Services Router (ASR) 9000
platforms will form the main components of a unified fabric powered
by IOS XR and its market-leading software innovations -- segment
routing and EVPN.
“We have been working on this initiative with
Colt for more than a year, and we are proud to bring additional
benefits to its network, as well as lay the groundwork for new
opportunities,” said Jonathan Davidson,
senior vice president and general manager, Service Provider
Networking, Cisco. "In selecting Cisco's Cloud Scale
Networking technologies such as the Cisco® NCS 5500, segment
routing and EVPN, Colt is now in a position to deliver the high
bandwidth and customer-oriented experience that defines the network
of the future."
Cisco is leading the disruption in the industry with its
technology innovations in systems; silicon; software and security;
and its unrivalled expertise in mass-scale networking,
automation, optical, optics, cable access, video, and mobility.
Combining these capabilities with Cisco’s portfolio of go-to-market
security, collaboration, IoT, and professional services, we enable
service providers, media and web companies to reduce cost and
complexity, help secure their networks, and grow revenue.
Supporting resources
- Cisco Segment Routing
- Cisco NCS 500 Series
- Cisco ASR 9000 Series
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About ColtColt aims to be the leader in
enabling customers’ digital transformation through agile and
on-demand, high bandwidth solutions. The Colt IQ Network connects
over 800 data centres across Europe, Asia and North America’s
largest business hubs, with over 25,000 on net buildings and
growing.
Colt has built its reputation on putting customers first.
Customers include data intensive organisations spanning over 200
cities in nearly 30 countries. Colt is a recognised innovator and
pioneer in Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Function
Virtualisation (NFV). Privately owned, Colt is one of the most
financially sound companies in its industry and able to provide the
best customer experience at a competitive price. For more
information, please visit http://www.colt.net.
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