In an effort to accommodate accelerated subscriber growth and future product offerings, JMA's client needed to build twelve new Regional Data Centers (RDCs) at eight new physical locations throughout the country. The existing infrastructure at the old RDCs was obsolete and could not be upgraded, including rack space and power.

Given the importance of this 150 million dollar project, the timelines for the build out were extremely aggressive with all twelve RDCs to be completed in eight months. Due to this tight schedule, it was imperative to allow the application owners the ability to configure each application once, with the real IP addresses that would be used in production. In addition, these new Regional Data Centers needed to be implemented with zero production traffic outages during the build out.

Unfortunately, the IP addresses that were used came from the existing RDCs that were still in production. The solution was to set up a one for one static NAT for each of the production IP addresses. Through a combined effort, a "Walled Garden" solution was created during the implementation to keep each new RDC isolated from the rest of the production network.

The "Walled Garden" allowed all element owners to finish pre work before the cut over CMC. This significantly reduced errors and saved time during the CMC by allowing each application the ability to test outside the "Walled Garden" to the rest of the production network.

Once installed and tested the CMC schedule was feverously paced with one RDC pushed into production each week, for three months. The CMCs were all successfully completed; the project was completed ahead of schedule and under budget. The client widely considers the RDC project one of the most successful projects in the last five to ten years.

Given that the clients current peak time CPU on the existing firewalls was over 90%, it was imperative to come up with a design to increase the firewall capacity. The sites were unable to keep up with the session ramp rate, ultimately dropping packets during peak hours. To make matters worse, the mated site, being in the same situation, could not fail over traffic if an outage occurred.

Installation of an additional four firewall swim lanes was designed specifically for internet data traffic. The user pools were split between the four new ISG-2000 firewalls; load balanced by matching on the last two bits of an IP address via policy based routing and virtual routers on the M10i routers. Each lane was redundant, so that if swim lane one was to fail the outbound internet traffic would fail over to the third swim lane. The inbound internet traffic would fail over to the second swim lane in the same example.

With BGP multi hop, Bidirectional Forward Detection (BFD), and multiple BPG sessions between the two sets of routers sandwiching the new firewalls, a swim lane outage could be determined and rerouted sub-second.

To facilitate the ever growing demand for broadband wireless applications, providing a service application network to end-users in support of 4rth Generation wireless connectivity and Low Latency technologies High Performance Push to Talk, massive catalyst installations and migrations from 6509’s to 7613’s needed to take place. Partnering with Cisco, JMA performed these tasks in over 100 markets for a leading carrier class wireless provider.

High performance push to talk latency issues required Juniper router upgrades across Lucent markets for MLPPP support to Base Station Transceivers with multiple T1 backhauls. Also; Leveraging the high availability platforms that harness high speed data products, 5ESS Switching took advantage of Junipers m40e routers and their Advanced Services Modules to traffic Base Station Transceiver CDMA Voice calls on the fully redundant routed network. JMA migrated off of an antiquated Engineer Specification that encompassed Juniper m10i’s for Data Backhaul, to fully redundant, APS switched, Advanced Services Module equipped, MLPPP channel bonding m40e’s that also accounted for the aforementioned future Voice Capacity support. This task was performed in over 60 markets nation wide for a leading carrier class wireless provider.