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Unisource Belgium
• Unisource N.V. , founded in 1992
– KPN,
– Telia,
– SwissCom (1993).
• AT&T-Unisource Communication
Services (1995 - mid2000)
• Nov 98: 100% Subsidiary of KPN +J.V.
KPN/QWEST
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Unisource Belgium
• Other Licensed Operator
• Full license agreement
– Infrastructure
– Voice & Data
• KPN/QWEST
– Int’l strategic partner
– Eunet (Internet Services)
• KPN/Orange
– Mobile telephony (3rd national license)
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Our Portfolio
• National
– Data
• Frame relay services
• Managed router services
• Dial- Ip
– Voice
• Uniphone (1525)
• 0800 - 0900 Services
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Our Portfolio
– Internet Services
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Managed Bandwidth Access
Managed Secure access services (firewall)
Web Presence
E-Commerce
– Call Centers (Marien & Gijbels)
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Our Portfolio
• International
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Frame Relay & Managed router services
ATM & Broadband services
Voice Services (VPN)
Internet Services
Satellite Services
Call Centers
Frame Relay Services
• Based on PVC through a shared packet
network
• Designed for LAN interconnect (support
of bursty traffic)
• 8 Points of presence in Belgium: From
Charleroi, Liège, Brussels, ...
To Gent, Antwerpen, Leuven, …
• A Worldwide coverage with our partners
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Managed Router Services
Frame Relay Services
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Customer routers management
24/24H 7/7D
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Global Reach
Geographic coverage
The EuroRings TM network: Geography
Be ver w ijk
L owe stoft
Am s terdam
Elte n
D om bu rg
L ondon
R ot terdam
A ntw erp
Mar gate
Du ss eldorf
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L ille
B russ els
F ra nkfurt
Pa ris
P oP/node
Str as sburg
B orde r crossing/s ea ca ble sta tion
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Global Reach
Geographic coverage
KPN EuroRings Network
Stockholm
Oslo
Copenhagen
Hamburg
Amsterdam
Bremen
London
Hannover
Rotterdam
Antwerp
Berlin
Dusseldorf
Brussels
Leipzig
Frankfurt
Strasbourg
Paris
Basel
Prague
Stuttgart
Zurich
Lyon
Munich
Vienna
Budapest
Geneva
Milan
Torino
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Global Reach
Geographic coverage
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Global Reach
Geographic coverage
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Uniphone
• Voice Services
– Prefix « 1525 »
– CPE Based equipment
– Dedicated access
• Huge discounts (20 - 40+ %) long
distances and international
• and to mobile networks with dedicated
access.
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Internet Services
• Managed bandwidth access
• Managed firewall Services
• Web Presence & Web catalog
• E-Commerce (with Eunet)
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The future
Services
Nirvâna
Operators View : Higher revenues
Customers view : New services
Today
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The future
Over
…But not the same IP than today !
…And not the same Internet !
For converged - merged - blended multi-services network
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Hot technologies
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Policy
Quality of Service
VPN/Security
Packet telephony
Policy
• Policies are used to provide with network
resources based on:
– Business priorities
– Security requirements
– Network capabilities
• Policies enable network to be optimized
for applications
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Hot technologies
• Policy
• Quality of services
• VPN/Security
• Packet telephony
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• Bind business
objectives to the
network infrastructure
Quality of Service
• Every packet faces the issue of
– Bandwidth
– Delay & Jitter
– Reliability
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Quality of Service
How do we ensure that packet arrive at
its destination, and at the right “time” ?
• Today : Best effort service.
• Future : Gold Service, Silver Service,
Bronze Service
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Hot technologies
• Policy
• Quality of services
• VPN/Security
• Packet telephony
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• Bind business
objectives to the
network infrastructure
• Discrimination
VPN/Security
• To provide on a shared public network
infrastructure and targeting equivalency
with a private network in terms of :
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Reliability
Security
Performance,
Control
Hot technologies
• Policy
• Quality of services
• VPN/Security
• Packet telephony
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• Bind business
objectives to the
network infrastructure
• Discrimination
• Exploit the “shared”
network as your
“private” network
Packet telephony
New
Applications
New ways to do business
Today’s Voice &
IP Networks
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IP-Based Circuit
Emulation
IP Telepony
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Internet Telephony
• IP Telephony - “clone” the PSTN and have
it to use TCP/IP for transport
• Internet telephony - a “service” on the
internet
– Value add such a web telephony, e-mail
integration, unified messaging, etc...
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Hot technologies
State of the Art
• Policy
• Quality of services
• VPN/Security
• Packet telephony
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• LDAP V3, PKI,
Radius, DHCP, DNS,
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• DiffServ, IntServ,
RSVP, MPLS, …
• L2TP, S-HTTP,
IPSEC, IKE,
MPLS…
H.323, RTP, MGCP,...
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The future
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Targeted Services
• IP VPN with
– Class of Services: New applications
– MPLS: infrastructure independent
• IP managed services
– IP Voice VPN
– Web Call Centers
– E-commerce
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Targeted Customers
• Corporate, multinationals
• Small & Medium enterprises
• National and Int’l Public institutions
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Targeted Customers
• Residentials ?
• Local loop issue
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Fiber to Home
xDSL
Cable TV
PowerLine
Wireless
• FWA
• UMTP
Priorities
• Business driven
– IP-based infrastructure (today)
– IP VPN
– IP managed services
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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