Market:Optical Networking

Region:Southeast Asia

CASE STUDY

DELIVERING SUPERIOR OPTICAL SERVICES IN SOUTH KOREA

LGS Innovations and its legacy companies have been deploying turnkey optical networking projects for the United States Army in South Korea since 1993.

The Korea Optical Transport Network (KOTNet) project focuses on enhancements that include a core Dense Wave Division Multiplex (DWDM) system that transports virtually all Department of Defense (DoD) common user base-to-base traffic as well as C4ISR traffic for the entire DoD in South Korea. LGS is also successfully replacing antiquated DoD ATM equipment with Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) hardware and software. Joint Interoperability Test Center (JITC) certification of the DWDM project is already underway.

With a 20-year history of serving the United States Armed Forces in Korea, LGS Innovations and its heritage companies have successfully completed multiple optical networking projects to increase bandwidth, effectively manage networks, replace outdated equipment, and support secure communications for the Warfighter.

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L G S H A S B E E N A K E Y C O N T R I B U T O R T O T H E C O M M U N I C A T I O N S , C O M M A N D , C O N T R O L , C O M P U T E R S

& I N T E L L I G E N C E ( C 4 I ) F O R T H E D E P A R T M E N T O F D E F E N S E ( D O D ) W I T H T H E I R S U P P O R T O F T H E

K O R E A O P T I C A L N E T W O R K E V O L U T I O N , B Y P R O V I D I N G D E S I G N , E N G I N E E R I N G , H A R D W A R E /

S O F T W A R E A N D I N T E G R A T I O N S U P P O R T F O R O V E R A D E C A D E .

— J E F F R E Y M . P R I C E , T E A M L E A D E R F O R D W T S N O R T H O P E R A T I O N S

Overview 20 Years of Success

The KOTNet development was launched 20 years ago as a Lucent project, which began with the installation of ATM products, including multiservice platform products. Several years later, Alcatel Government Solutions began partnering with Lucent to meet the growing requirements for greater bandwidth, and upgraded the network with a bandwidth management platform designed to provide significant bandwidth increases and improved reliability via optical rings and Course Wave Division Multiplexing (CWDM).

In December of 2006, Lucent and Alcatel merged to become LGS legacy company Alcatel-Lucent. From 2007 through the sale of Alcatel-Lucent to Nokia in 2016, LGS Innovations was the sole sales and contracting channel for all Alcatel-Lucent sales to the U.S. federal government.

ChallengesSince 2006, LGS Innovations has been enhancing the bandwidth capabilities of the KOTNet even further, with the addition of SONET and DWDM via Nokia’s 1677 SONET Link and 1626 Light Manager LM product set, aimed at increasing service delivery reliability, bandwidth and capacity for the network. The 1626 LM was chosen by the United States Forces Korea (USFK) and Project Manager, Defense Wide Transmission Systems (PM DWTS) because it has a very long reach between nodes. This allows for the removal of optical repeater sites for reduced network complexity. The reach of the 1626 LM has been significantly extended through the implementation of Raman optical signal amplification via the 1621 Raman AMPS link extender.

SolutionsLGS is currently working on upgrading the DWDM equipment for increased capability and reliability by deploying Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop software and hardware (known as ROADM) as part of the current LGS project (KOTNet KEP 2A). LGS is using Nokia’s 7750 MPLS equipment to replace and upgrade ATM equipment discontin-ued by the previous manufacturer.

LGS has also completed several smaller projects for the U.S. Army 1ST SIGNAL Brigade and PM DWTS, including installation of 3600 Mainstreet Multiplexers to replace Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) FCC-98 muxes. The 3600 handles 50 times the capacity of an FCC-98. In addition, LGS provided network timing support throughout the

C H A L L E N G E S

» Satisfy U.S. Army customers with effective,

efficient enhancement of bandwidth

capabilities in the Korea Optical Transport

Network

S O L U T I O N S

» World-class technical expertise from

» LGS Innovations

» Nokia 1626 Light Manager

» Nokia 1621 SLE

» Nokia 1353 Network Manager

» Nokia 1677 SONET

» ROADM software and hardware

B E N E F I T S

» Successful addition of a core DWDM

» Support for all DoD traffic in South Korea

» Replacement of outdated ATM equipment

with MPLS

» Provision of long-haul 250 km optical link

with no repeaters

» Elimination of a costly, problematic site

» Unified networkmanagement

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Korean peninsula by purchasing and installing Staff Agency Security Manager (SASM) GPS receivers. LGS has remained a principal provider of KOTNet project support to the USFK due to the company’s extensive network knowledge and long history of success with the customer—and in the region. This project has maintained a service record of 99.99% reliability.

“LGS has been a key contributor to the Communica-tions, Command, Control, Computers & Intelligence (C4I) for the Department of Defense (DoD) with their support of the Korea Optical Network evolution, by providing design, engineering, hardware/software and integration support for over a decade,” said Jeffrey M. Price, team leader for DWTS North Operations.

The U.S. Army began updating its transmission network throughout the Korean peninsula with Alcatel-Lucent (now Nokia) products in 2001. Since then, several growth phases have been requested and successfully implemented for the U.S. Government. The most recent phase consists of an overlay of the existing SONET network with Nokia’s 1626 Light Manager server, which acts as the cornerstone of the DWDM solution. Nokia’s Submarine Network’s 1621 SLE server product supplies a long-haul, repeater-less 250 kilometer optical link—making it one of the longest terrestrial implementa-tions in the world.

This solution eliminates a site that was both costly and problematic—technically and politically—for the U.S. Army in Korea. The project was extremely challenging as the existing network was the backbone of com-munications for all U.S. Forces in Korea. All upgrades had to be performed without any service disruption to the network and were performed in highly secure and difficult to reach facilities. In addition, the imple-mentation of Nokia’s 1353 Network Manager solution provides unified network management, and features industry-leading capabilities for network provisioning and monitoring.

BenefitsThe KOTNet KEP 2A project added additional nodes to the optical ring, and upgraded the existing nodes in the northern part of the country to include reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer (ROADM) technology. LGS is currently anticipating Phase III of the project, which will establish an optical “South DWDM Ring” in early 2011.

LGS has successfully completed a major turn-key Nokia 1626 and 1621 DWDM deployment for the United States Army in South Korea. The project involved a comprehensive set of pre- and post-sales activities including network engineering, circuit migration, fiber optic cable relocations, terminations and characterization. It also includes detailed cutover and circuit planning, comprehensive project management, installation, test, and commissioning of US military circuits to the new DWDM network.

These significant optical product deployments in support of our armed forces overseas were a major accomplishment for LGS—and a huge success for United States Forces Korea. Given the extreme sensitivity and importance of the Korea network, the Army selected Lucent Government Solutions and Alcatel for their proven experience and the quality of their network products. KOTNet 2A was completed on-time, within budget, and exceeded customer satisfaction.

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S U P P O R T T H E D E P L O Y E D W A R F I G H T E R .

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