XL Axiata has deployed Packet Design technologies to ensure optimum service delivery over its IP/MPLS mobile and core networks in Indonesia.
XL Axiata chose the Packet Design Explorer Suite, including its Carrier SDN analytics and automation capabilities, to improve troubleshooting, automate traffic engineering to avoid link congestion, and mitigate risk as it expands and rolls out new services.
“Packet Design’s Explorer SDN Platform is the only technology able to do real-time path computation for dynamic traffic routing with no impact to services, throughout our MPLS Network,” said Taufiq Budiman, Expert – Transport IP for XL Axiata.
“Being able to automate the deployment of tunnels with the Explorer SDN Traffic Engineering app saves us time and money, and it helps us manage performance as we grow our network and roll out technologies like 4G LTE,” Taufiq Budiman said.
The service provider is using the Explorer products to predict the impact of changes, simulate new workloads, and test failure scenarios to build a more resilient network when it deploys new routers and upgrades link capacity.
XL Axiata is using the Explorer SDN Traffic Engineering (SDN-TE) application, which leverages the Explorer SDN Platform’s real-time telemetry, analytics, and policy-driven path computation and optimization engine.
The SDN-TE app automates the difficult engineering task of re-balancing network loads when link failures occur frequently in the region due to cut in fiber optic cables on the ocean floor and construction damaging equipment on land.
XL Axiata will benefit as the Explorer SDN-TE app calculates and creates Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP-TE) tunnels to shift traffic from heavily congested links to lightly used links. This results in better overall use of network resources and smoother service delivery.
“Packet Design provides the analytics needed to optimize the performance and control of physical and virtual IP networks, especially large and complex ones like XL Axiata’s,” said Scott Sherwood, CEO of Packet Design.
