Next Gen NGN Framework

Next Gen NGN Framework

NGNBN OpCo Network Requirement High Uplink, Downlink Access Speed Open Access, Reliable, Scalable, Secure and Upgradeable Network Support fair and equitable bandwidth allocation for multiple RSP and different types of applications Support 4 classes of service Network must be capable of efficiently handling increasing high bandwidth applications such as VOD and Peer to Peer traffic Network needs to be transparent to RSP IPv4/v6 addressing scheme for all services if a Layer 2 backhaul method is selected Network must provide flexibility to enable the growth of the end user bandwidth

Nucleus Connect Overview Nucleus Connect was selected to Build and Operate the Active Network in Singapore s Next Generation National Broadband Network (Next Gen NBN) Nucleus Connect will deploy advanced technologies to enable a comprehensive range of ultra-high speed wholesale broadband services to RSPs Nucleus Connect will launch commercial operations in Q1, 2010 Nucleus Connect will offer standard pricing to all Retail Service Providers (RSPs) through an Inter Connect Offering (ICO) that will be regulated by IDA. Nucleus Connect will deploy a Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) architecture using GPON and Active Ethernet network elements to deliver broadband services with speeds up to 1Gbps

Nucleus Connect Central Office OpCo Equipment Area RSPs Equipment Area IOT Lab Data Centre NOC

OpenNet and Nucleus Connect Overview Passive Network laid by OpenNet Landed Property Nucleus Connect CO OpenNet CO Primary Cabinet Primary Cabinet Primary Cabinet Secondary Cabinet Secondary Cabinet Secondary Cabinet Multi Dwelling Units 288F Primary Cabinet Primary Cabinet Secondary Cabinet Secondary Cabinet Monitoring RPE, P, and RSP routers Monitoring OLTs and Active Ethernet Switches Non Residential Monitoring NTEs Government Agencies Active Eth NTE Nucleus Connect NOC (i.e. Monitoring all Active Equipment)

Lighting up the Fibre Non- Residential Residential NBAP

Wiring into the Home NGNBN StarHub Singtel RF or IP STB SH Cable TV STB Mio IPTV STB RJ45 Mio ADSL Modem RJ45 LAN Coax RJ45 RJ45 RJ45 Voice enabled Cable Modem Fiber COAX Twisted Pair NGNBN Fibre StarHub TV (Coax) Singtel Fixed Line

A-Series B-Series C-Series Optical Line Terminal FTTB

Solution Overview RSP APPLICATIONS & SERVICES RSP VoIP Music Directory Internet RSP EDGE AGGREGATION (to RSP) CORE at 2 OpCo COs OpCo CO 1 OpCo CO 2 AGGREGATION at 9 COs..... ACCESS GPON OLT CO 1 GPON OLT CO 2 Active Ethernet Active Ethernet CO 9 Splitter Residential NBAP Business Mobile Backhaul

End to End Connectivity OpCo CO1 RSP1 RSP2 RSP (Facing) PE Router Provider (P) Core Router Aggregation Aggregation Router VoIP IPTV OLT OLT RSPx Inter CO Connectivity Desktop Residential OpenNet CO1 Active Ethernet RSPy AE RSP (Facing) Access PE RouterSwitch Provider (P) Core Router OpCo CO2 OpenNet CO5 OpenNet CO6 OpenNet CO7 OpenNet CO8 OpenNet CO9 OpenNet CO2 OpenNet CO3 OpenNet CO4 AE Access Switch AE CPE Non-Residential

A-Series 2. Connection Services B-Series C-Series Optical Line Terminal FTTB

Residential Services VoIP IPTV Internet 2 x OpCO COs Landed Property RSP router RSP (Facing) PE Router Provider (P) Core Router Inter CO Connectivity Aggregation Aggregation PE Router 9 x OpenNet COs OLT Condo HDB Connections Services 100 Mbps Ethernet 1 Gbps Ethernet Subscribe to different class of services Best Efforts Real Time Near Real Time Mission Critical Potential RSP Offerings VoIP IPTV and Video on Demand (SD and HD) High Speed Internet Online Gaming Video conferencing (e-learning) Online storage Telemedicine

Non-Residential Services VoIP IPTV Internet 2 x OpCO COs AE CPE Enterprise (MNCs) RSP (Facing) PE Router Provider (P) Core Router Inter CO Connectivity Aggregation PE Router Aggregation Active Ethernet Switch Active Ethernet Access Switch AE CPE Commercial RSP router 9 x OpenNet COs Active Ethernet Access Switch Connections Services 100 Mbps Ethernet 1 Gbps Ethernet Symmetrical bandwidth Subscribe to different class of services Best Efforts Real Time Near Real Time Mission Critical Potential RSP Offerings Voice over IP High Speed Internet Corporate data usage (VPN, Intranet) Video conference, Tele-Presence Lease line (DLC, ELL equivalence) Software as a Service (SaaS) Telemedicine

Non-Building Address Point (NBAP) Services Broadcast Center 2 x OpCO COs Aggregation Bus Stop RSP (Facing) PE Router Provider (P) Core Router Aggregation Router Inter CO Connectivity OLT Lamp Posts 9 x OpenNet COs AE Switch Bus Stop Mobile Operator CO AE CPE AE CPE Lamp Posts Connections Services 100 Mbps Ethernet 1 Gbps Ethernet Symmetrical bandwidth Subscribe to different class of services Best Efforts Real Time Near Real Time Mission Critical Potential RSP Offerings Traffic Monitoring Security Surveillance Mobile BTS/Node B Mobile stations backhaul Broadcast service (advertisement, notice, etc )

IP Multi-Cast Connection Service This service allows RSPs to deliver IP multicast content over the NGNBN using Nucleus Connect s IP multicast technology The IP Multicast technology is used to efficiently deliver bandwidth-intensive video broadcasting services such as IPTV Web seminar E-learning, and a host of other business applications. Using Multicast technology, an RSP offering IPTV can multicast its broadcast channels to the Nucleus PE Routers. With all the Broadcast channels replicated across the MPLS PE Routers, the RSP does not need to scale its core capacity requirements as its actual subscriber numbers grow.

A-Series 3. Managed Services B-Series C-Series Optical Line Terminal FTTB

L2 VPN Point to Point (VLL) Enterprise Hub and Spoke Topology VLAN 100 Enterprise Data Centre AE CPE AE Access Switch PE AE CPE Enterprise Branch AE Switch PE EoMPLS VRF AE Switch AE Switch EoMPLS PE AE Switch VLAN 300 MPLS Core VLAN 200 AE Access AE Access Enterprise Branch AE CPE PWE based on IETF RFC 4905 and 4906 Switch Switch AE CPE Each branch has pseudowire L2 Point-to-Point connection terminated at the PE serving the Data Center. Traffic from each branch is identified and separated by VLAN Enterprise Branch

L3 IP VPN Enterprise Branch AE CPE AE Access Switch MPLS Core PE AE CPE Enterprise Branch AE Switch PE VRF AE Switch AE Switch PE AE Switch Enterprise Branch AE CPE Layer 3 VPN based on IETF RFC 4364 AE Access Switch AE Access Switch All traffic from branch use PE as default router. PE router performs al l routing functions AE CPE Enterprise Branch

L2 VPN Ethernet LAN (ELAN) Emulating LAN over MPLS network Broadcast Center AE CPE AE Access Switch PE AE CPE Bus Stop AE Switch PE VRF AE Switch AE Switch MPLS Core PE AE Switch AE Access Switch AE Access Mobile Operator CO Switch AE CPE AE CPE Lamp Posts AE CPE Mobile BTS/Node B

Co-Location Service Rack space within Nucleus Connect CO to facilitate the co-location of QPs active network equipment for the purpose of connecting to the Nucleus Connects Active Network Dimension of co-lo space 600mm by 900mm by 42U racks 600mm by 1,000mm by 42U racks

Resiliency and Redundancy The proposed network is designed with 99.95% monthly network availability to meet the stringent QoS targets offered in the ICO. All Core, Aggregation and Access Equipment are configured with redundant configuration, including Controller cards; Switching fabric cards; Power supply modules; and Fan modules. Failure on any active components will automatically trigger a switchover to the backup cards/modules without service disruption.

10 GE HSI VLAN VoIP VLAN Video VLAN Gold Bronze ON-NET

Quality of Service RSPs will be able to offer different QoS levels to their customers at both L2 & L3. They can control this by; Class of Service for each service Amount of CIR and PIR on the uplink and downlink Dimensioning of the core and upstream capacity Network Design plays a key role Network Dimensioning o o o Coping with bursty nature of IP flows IP classification and differentiation of different service types Video, VoIP, High Speed Internet (HSI) Service and Network Availability o o Network resiliency High Service Availability in the Network Equipment GE Per Sub VLAN Per Sub VLAN VoIP Vide HSI o VoIP Vide HSI o Nucleus Connect will provide RSPs QoS information on a segment basis (End user, core network, and Network access)

List of Service Ports Nucleus Connect will provide Service Ports to RSP at the following locations: 1)at the PE router facing RSP at Nucleus Connect s CO - for RSP to achieve nation-wide coverage easily; 1GE and 10GE ports, single-mode fiber; 2) at the Aggregation Edge router at OpenNet s CO for example: for RSPs providing IPTV and services requiring low-latency; 1GE and 10GE ports, singlemode fiber; and 3) at the NTE at End-User Premises for the RSP s End-User to consume services. Ports are 100/1000 Mbps, electrical RJ-45, cat 5/5e UTP cable, based on GPON or Active Ethernet. NTE for GPON NTE for Active Ethernet

Service Transparency The proposed Nucleus Connect network (GPON or Active Ethernet) will be transparent to the delivery of the following RSP services:- IPv4 and IPv6 Protocol; IPv4 and IPv6 Layer 3 VPN; IPv4/IPv6 Unicast, Multicast and Broadcast traffic co-existence on the similar platform; Traffic segregation and prioritization; Support various packet sizes varying from 64 to 9000 bytes; Transparently proxy/relay or transparently pass through the authentication protocol to RSPs; Support private circuit security tunneling protocol like IPSec and QinQ

Open Access Platform OSS/BSS The proposed OSS-BSS solution is designed to provide an Open Access Platform to enable End- Users, RSP, QP and OpenNet to interact with the Nucleus Connect for ease of delivery of service. Being at the heart of the NGNBN eco-system, the proposed OSS-BSS solution is designed with the following business needs: Deliver Ease of Doing Business Empower End Users and Partners Efficient end-to-end Services Delivery

Nucleus Connect Network and Systems Hosted and Managed Applications (SaaS) IMS Free to Air TV / IPTV RSP OSS/BSS End Customers New RSPs OpCo Users NetCo Users RSP 1 Users RSP 2 Users OSS/BSS NetCo OSS/BSS OSS/B SS GPON Active Ethernet IOT Test Lab Firewalls Portal Integration Messaging Bus B2B Interface Network Management System / Element Manager Operational Support System (OSS) Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Business Support System (BSS) Test Bed NMS/EMS Data Warehouse Banks & Agencies Test Env Central Offices (both OpenNet and Nucleus Connect) Layer 1 Fibre (StarHub and/or OpenNet)

Functions of Nucleus Self-care Portal Self Care services that will be available to RSPs include; Nucleus Connect s Product and Services information Enquiries on Nucleus Connect s and OpenNet s Network Coverage and Rollout status Ordering, Modification and Termination of orders Status of services subscribed Creation, updating and status query of trouble tickets; Manage and Maintain their services View bills and make billing enquiries RSPs are provided with option to establish a connection to the Nucleus Connect platform using either a Public Internet secured VPN or a dedicated point-to-point secured link or both

Information on RSP Services COVERAGE DETAILS DIRECTORY OF RSPs AND SERVICES SELF-CARE REPORTS Order placed on by End-User directly on RSP portals HTTP RE- DIRECTION Information provided by RSP as part of Registration Process