Case study: Local Access Network Expansion and LEC Collocation

BACKGROUND

A leading global carrier with more than $25 billion in revenues had launched a strategic initiative to significantly reduce the $8 billion in local access transport costs it was spending with the local telephone companies (LECs).

BUSINESS CHALLENGE

Expand the base of LEC collocations in several high cost Tier 2 markets on a limited capital budget with limited operational resources.

NETWORK SOLUTION

CFN analyzed the carrier’s list of target sites for LEC collocation expansion and developed a plan to reach more than 15 sites across 5 markets for less than a third of the cost and less than half the time than the carrier had planned in its internal business case. The CFN team integrated networks from several 3 rd party fiber owners including the construction of the network extensions and interconnections necessary to deliver a set of seamless dark fiber networks, fiber panel to fiber panel in 15 LEC central offices across 3 different LECs. The CFN team also provided 24x7x365 network management, enabling a single call to support incident response and management of the fiber network across all 5 markets and 15 LEC central offices.

The final solution included:

• Turnkey deployment of end-to-end fiber networks in 5 Tier 2 markets
• Interconnection of the carrier’s POP with a total of 15 LEC collocations
• Project delivery in half the time and at a third of the cost originally planned