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TELEFONICA UK awarded CIENA the project to provide their next generation transport network, working hand in hand with dark fibre provider Zayo. The new backbone network replaces their existing network provided by BT. With this scalable 100G network, Telefonica has more flexibility in how the network is controlled and configured and can satisfy growing unpredictable demands for high-bandwidth mobile, video and cloud services. It connects major UK cities, including London, Manchester, Edinburgh and Liverpool, and has enabled Telefonica to deliver web-scale services to support massive growth in data center and network virtualization demands. The network inter-connects TEF UK Switch Sites, Data Centre Sites and Internet Sites. The majority of the connections between these sites are provided using dark fibre. The project started in February 2014 and phase one completed in November 2015.

Network Engineering Next Generation

Introduction

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Using its proven Service Delivery Lifecycle Model and back office systems to govern its Engineering Projects; Flomatik provides its OEM and Operator clients a trusted, innovative and collaborative service partnership. Flomatik Network Services can support its clients’ largest optical network infrastructure build programmes by offering full E2E Turnkey responsibility through to simple Engineering Services. Providing customer facing Project Management, Engineering Service Delivery, Engineering Technical Lead, pre-Staging, Field Engineering Services for the I&C & Test of high order optical systems, Procurement, Warehouse & Logistics Services for vendor equipment and IRM, plus NOC Services.

Services

Flomatik Delivery Components

• Customer PM function liaising with end customer, 3rd parties, all workstreams; • Full engineering Service Delivery Manager; • Procurement, Warehousing & Logistics: to Inventory manage all Ciena equipment, racks, PDU, IRM procurement and onwards shipping; • Pre-Staging of racks/kit and base configuration; • Engineering Services: included Survey, Installation, Commissioning, Acceptance Testing, Documentation; • Managed NOC service to enable Ciena to bring the network online, monitor the network through testing whilst training Telefonica staff over a 12-month period.

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Flomatik integrated all network designs (DND’s), project deliverables, materials and documentation into their standard PM, ERP and Quality Systems; whilst supporting core and metro engineering teams to successfully manage customer designs through implementation; coordinating and managing all as-built site documents, test results; Flomatik ensured all technical hand-over documentation is submitted to Ciena’s build team within SLA, on link completion before handover to Flomatik’s NOC team for monitoring during a 12 month customer system handover. To enable Flomatik to deliver this project a significant training initiative was established in conjunction with Ciena. Flomatik Field Engineering developed a structured, Fast-Tracked Training & Development plan delivered via 3 boot camps that facilitated an unprecedented 20 engineers gaining accreditation on the 6500 O&M product over a 4 week period. Award of Phase Two was given to Flomatik on the back of successful initial 46-site deployment. Phase 2 includes 5 new sites and three expansions sites where Flomatik will continue to provide a Customer PM function liaising with the Telefonica, and their 3rd parties; along with Full Service Delivery Management, Warehousing & Logistics and Engineering Services.

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