mgcarley
Founder, Hayai Broadband
about the cpe and equipment stuff i have asked earlier too but all in vain. But now as the date is very near it is wise to ask.
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When will ur CPEs come? whn will they get manufactured and if already manufactured when will delivery's arrive.? how many cpe are ordering in first tranche ?
I believe they're already in India, I will be signing for them when I visit Delhi. 10,000 have been ordered in the first batch, though depending on Alcatel's situation, we may receive even this lot in smaller batches while more imports happen from their end.
what about the routers? which make? when will they come? Is it already ordered? Are they available in a shop or again has an agreement has to be signed? what about the ONTs/Distribution boxes?
Alcatel-Lucent India is taking care of the lot. For routing we are taking from the 7750-series as this will allow us easy upgrade to 100Gbit/s in the core - and multiples thereof - the switching fabric operates at terabit-plus speeds, but recent tests show the SR-12 model giving 99.99% performance at 100Gbit/s which is damn good, and used only 1.4 kilowatts under 100% load, which for the purpose of the test was set at 400Gbit/s bi-directional with 4 100Gbit/s links logically aggregated in to a single logical group, and failover was fantastic, with about 8ms of interruption until the failover kicked in on that particular link when a cable was pulled out (emulating a cut).
For service aggregation & distribution we are taking the 7342-series ISAM, and within that range we are taking CPE's which model numbers from that range start with i (i120g, i120gw, i240g, i240gw or something if memory serves). As we're using internal devices, the ONT is contained within the CPE itself. Based on all of the information we've been able to garner from independent sources, we think we've got a fairly solid system being put together for us.
Oh, and the CPEs are not available in shops.
By distribution box, what you probably mean is the OLT from which each GPON starts: that series platform contains a variety of devices all configured to work together - each OLT chassis can supply something like 6k customers, we just add line cards as we need to expand the system. That all is contained within the aforementioned ISAM.
Is ur international gateway agreement signed? If not signed how much time will it take for them to execute the order and provide the link...
It can't be signed yet, so it's pending for the next few weeks until our own new license is expected to come through (this date has been about the same since May - as yet there isn't any indication that it will change significantly).
It will take about 1 week to provision the links (including spare unlit fiber which can be switched on at any time) and map the IP addresses to our AS number (both subleased v4 addresses & our own v6 addresses).
more importantly is ur office ready? is the lease agreement signed? where it is?
Our own office is not ready yet and probably won't be until early October and is in Dadar. This is separate to the network operations which is taken care of for the time being at HNS DC, next to Bhandup station. We are looking for some office space in Goregaon West also to facilitate some extra redundancy and add floor space to our overall holdings which I plan to utilize for a bigger call-centre.
The only really hard part remaining is the billing system integration & testing which admittedly we're cutting it a little fine on time-wise, but that's about all at this point.
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When will ur CPEs come? whn will they get manufactured and if already manufactured when will delivery's arrive.? how many cpe are ordering in first tranche ?
I believe they're already in India, I will be signing for them when I visit Delhi. 10,000 have been ordered in the first batch, though depending on Alcatel's situation, we may receive even this lot in smaller batches while more imports happen from their end.
what about the routers? which make? when will they come? Is it already ordered? Are they available in a shop or again has an agreement has to be signed? what about the ONTs/Distribution boxes?
Alcatel-Lucent India is taking care of the lot. For routing we are taking from the 7750-series as this will allow us easy upgrade to 100Gbit/s in the core - and multiples thereof - the switching fabric operates at terabit-plus speeds, but recent tests show the SR-12 model giving 99.99% performance at 100Gbit/s which is damn good, and used only 1.4 kilowatts under 100% load, which for the purpose of the test was set at 400Gbit/s bi-directional with 4 100Gbit/s links logically aggregated in to a single logical group, and failover was fantastic, with about 8ms of interruption until the failover kicked in on that particular link when a cable was pulled out (emulating a cut).
For service aggregation & distribution we are taking the 7342-series ISAM, and within that range we are taking CPE's which model numbers from that range start with i (i120g, i120gw, i240g, i240gw or something if memory serves). As we're using internal devices, the ONT is contained within the CPE itself. Based on all of the information we've been able to garner from independent sources, we think we've got a fairly solid system being put together for us.
Oh, and the CPEs are not available in shops.
By distribution box, what you probably mean is the OLT from which each GPON starts: that series platform contains a variety of devices all configured to work together - each OLT chassis can supply something like 6k customers, we just add line cards as we need to expand the system. That all is contained within the aforementioned ISAM.
Is ur international gateway agreement signed? If not signed how much time will it take for them to execute the order and provide the link...
It can't be signed yet, so it's pending for the next few weeks until our own new license is expected to come through (this date has been about the same since May - as yet there isn't any indication that it will change significantly).
It will take about 1 week to provision the links (including spare unlit fiber which can be switched on at any time) and map the IP addresses to our AS number (both subleased v4 addresses & our own v6 addresses).
more importantly is ur office ready? is the lease agreement signed? where it is?
Our own office is not ready yet and probably won't be until early October and is in Dadar. This is separate to the network operations which is taken care of for the time being at HNS DC, next to Bhandup station. We are looking for some office space in Goregaon West also to facilitate some extra redundancy and add floor space to our overall holdings which I plan to utilize for a bigger call-centre.
The only really hard part remaining is the billing system integration & testing which admittedly we're cutting it a little fine on time-wise, but that's about all at this point.
