Tim Price and Marcos Biscaysaqu
The Network
• ThePacific.net network covers the top of
the South Island using more than 50 sites
• ThePacific.net’s customer base comprises
of businesses, rural users and schools
• 100% of the multi-point and 80% of the
Point-to-point solutions are based on
Mikrotik.
• We use the free spectrum in 2.4Ghz and
the 5Ghz band
Wireless Links and Coverage
Some of the Wireless Sites
Services
• Broadband internet services
• VPN’s of different kinds
• Hotspots
• VLAN and Q-in-Q VLAN Services
• Dedicated Links and dedicated bandwidth
• ISP services, mail, hosting, etc..
Projects
• Project PROBE: Was a NZ government initiative
to provide high speed internet services to
schools and communities in rural areas,
ThePacific.net was the regional supplier chosen
and we used the project to extend our wireless
network to many communities around the
region.
• Wimax: After finishing project PROBE
Thepacific.net obtained 2 frequency allocations
in the 3.5Ghz spectrum to use as a multi-point
solution
• Hotspots: We have decided to deploy
multiple hotspots in the region in
preparation for WiMAX
• FTTH: Our company signed the first
contract to provide Data, Voice and TV
over fiber in a new subdivision in the
region
• VOICE: Development and implementation
of voice over IP services is planned in the
next few months
Technology Change
New Technology
Improvements Lower Costs New Features
Problems of Diversification
• New solutions will have to coexist with old ones
• New Services can’t be implemented for old
customers
• Diversity of systems create management
difficulties
• Administration problems
• Low scalability
• Compatibility problems
• NO INTEGRATION
Reasons for centralization
• Scalability
• Fast failure recovery with no data loss
• Simplification security and control
• Update and upgrade rollouts
• QoS monitoring and control
• Reduce cost of maintenance
• Easy management
• Easy implementation and integration of new services
• Billing
Centralized Management Platform
• Central Data Base
• Central Web Interface (front End)
• Background scripting system (Back End)
Change CPE Settings
Front End Administrator
Activate Back End Scripts
Update DB
Back End
Reload CPE Setup
Database CPE
Front End
Different Views
• Regular User’s View
• Administrative View
Customer Controllable Items
Website Settings:
• Contact and billing details
• Website access password
Settings
• CPE ethernet settings
• CPE DHCP settings
• VPNs
• Firewall
• CPE DNS server settings
• Port and protocol forwarding
• CPE Shutdown and restart
ISP Services
• Domain / Email / Alias provisioning through limited cPanel integration
• Application of content filtering services
Additional Customer Information
• Usage
monitoring
• Archived usage
Additional Customer Information
• Packets/s Graph
• Traffic Graphs
Per client Administrative Tools
• Signal Graphs
• Latency Graphs
Provisioning
• Customer
Provisioning
Provisioning Continued
• Connection
Provisioning
Hardware Provisioning
• CPE Provisioning
• Ebox Provisioning
Rate Management
• IP Range Definition
• IP Range Grouping
• Rate Definition
Sites Database
• Customer
signal, latency
and traffic
preview per
Network
Access Device.
Back End
Pre-setup Scripts
Schedule Scripts Update Scripts
Pre-Setup Scripts
• Recognize the type of Hardware and
software of the Equipment
• Obtain MAC addresses, type of interfaces,
etc…
• Generate Keys, unique ID number, IP
number and load the basic setting into the
device
• Update DB with the new device details, ID
and IP number
Schedule Scripts
• Rollout Updates
• Monitoring system
• Logs and Usage (SNMP)
• Usage Control
• Check Customers Allowance limits
• Automatic change customers Allowance
• Reset counter
Update Scripts
• Executed by the front End
• Generate the New Configuration Files from the
Database
• Upload the new configuration file to the device
or execute alive reconfiguration
• Reload setting
• Reload Security, access control or access Keys
if it is required by the new configuration.
• Reboot or shutdown if it is required.
Example of Provisioning
and Installation process
New CPEs
Pre-flash script loads the Pre-flash Script obtains
Database with the new CPE Detail from the CPE,
ID, IP number, MAC etc.. And Loads basic configuration,
The CPE is Pre-flashed assigns a Unique ID number
Pre-Flashed CPEs
Pre-flash script loads the Pre-flash Script obtains
Database with the new CPE Detail from the CPE,
ID, IP number, MAC etc.. And Loads basic configuration,
The CPE is Pre-flashed assigns a Unique ID number
Pre-Flashed CPEs
Virtual AP
Normal AP
Pre-flash VLAN
Customer Pre-
flash CPE
Front End
Assign CPE to
Customer
Virtual AP
Normal AP
Pre-flash VLAN
Customer Pre-
flash CPE
Back End Load
Settings on the CPE
And reload
Virtual AP
Normal AP
Pre-flash VLAN
Customer Pre-
flash CPE
Customers CPE
Configuration loaded
And CPE connected in the
Customers Network
Normal AP
Customer CPE
