| OPTICAL NETWORKS |
| Case Study |
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| Development of Triple play capability
in an APON OLT |
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| The client |
| A leading provider
of access equipment. |
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| Challenge |
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Business:
The client had chosen a very aggressive development
plan for the product, so as to gain the time-to-market
advantage. This meant that the new team had
very little time to ramp-up. |
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Technical:
The customer has stringent norms for product
quality |
To be able to ramp-up quickly and deliver features
of high quality within the aggressive development
schedule, the design vendor was expected to have
a ready pool of engineers with previous development
experience in the Access domain. |
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| Solution |
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Wipro was the
right fit for the client’s requirements |
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The Wipro
team augmented the client’s development
team, to help deliver the product within the
planned timelines |
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Wipro developed following
features for the OLT
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Enhancing
ATM module to provide per ONT traffic
controls |
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Porting
the BSP and platform-specific modules
from pSOS+ to VxWorks, on the network
and line termination cards |
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Porting the OMCI
protocol to the new platform |
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Additional TL1 based
craft commands |
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Optimization of
ONT provisioning and ATM initialization |
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Dynamic PON bandwidth
allocation for subscribed ONTs |
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Equipment management
functionality |
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Wipro team took ownership
of integrating the features developed by them,
with the existing product software |
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Wipro team performed a
rigorous system integration testing cycle,
to ensure that the Clients quality norms were
met |
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The first product release
was done by the Wipro team working from the
client location, and subsequently the operations
were moved to Wipro’s offshore location |
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| Benefits |
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Wipro team’s
PON area expertise resulted in quick ramp-ups
and a higher productivity, thereby helping
the client meet the challenging deadlines |
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The flexible
staffing advantage provided by Wipro resulted
in lower net R&D expenditure for the client |
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The client enjoys continual
cost benefits as enhancements and maintenance
activities to the product are carried out
from the offshore development location |
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