Service Provider
By working with vendors such as ADVA Optical Networking and RAD Data Communications, Sol Distribution can provide a number of comprehensive solutions for service providers.
Our suppliers have large product portfolios designed to support a wide range of expanding market needs including mobile backhaul, business services and cloud assurance, carrier exchange networks, and fibre conservation.
Optical infrastructure expansion
ADVA is a trusted partner for optical infrastructure expansion, providing high awareness of service/application requirements, such as sync and timing for 5G and high levels of automation supporting data centre optimised operational models. Network operators face significant challenges supporting ever-increasing bandwidth demands and service expectations. Five of the top seven European Ethernet service providers use ADVA technology, which shows the company’s deep understanding of the telecom business.
ADVA can provide solutions in the following areas:
- Open optical transport
- Packet edge and aggregation
- Disaggregated networking
- Network virtualisation
- Network infrastructure assurance
- Timing and synchronisation
- Automated network management
- Customer services
How does RAD assist service providers?
For mobile, business and wholesale service providers, RAD provides an economical migration path to network edge virtualisation via the disaggregation of software and hardware. RAD’s solutions allow service providers to enrich their business service offering as they add value off the edge to businesses transitioning to the cloud.
RAD’s key SAA solutions include a market-leading EAD portfolio supporting the latest MEF 3.0 specifications for delivering Carrier Ethernet and IP VPN services, including comprehensive SLA assurance, end-to-end visibility and life-cycle management capabilities over any access. They also include programmable cell site gateways for fast rollouts of early 5G deployments with fronthaul/midhaul/backhaul support and future 5G upgrades.
Critical infrastructure
OT/IT convergence, industrial IoT backhaul with edge computing and cyber-secure operational WAN with RAD’s Service Assured Networking solutions.
RAD provides Service Assured Networking (SAN) solutions that ensure seamless migration to packet switched communication networks and applications. We address all communication needs of the utilities, transportation and government sectors with always-on reliability and mission critical protection. We offer best-of-breed reliability tools. Our SAN solutions are used for cyber-secure industrial IoT (IIoT) and operational WANs, fog/edge computing, TDM to packet migration, distance Teleprotection and distribution automation, as well as Smart/Safe City deployments
