Case Studies

Santa’s Scalable Sack Storage & Delivery Automation Case Studies

Santa’s Scalable Sack Storage & Delivery Automation

Aptira previously built a scalable sack storage solution for Santa. While the sack storage has been reliable, Santa wanted to offer a virtual chimney-drop user…

Aptira21/12/2020

Automated Network Traffic Engineering and Tunneling Case Studies

Automated Network Traffic Engineering and Tunneling

Previously, network engineers were required to provision network services and keep track of changes in real time in order to implement Network Traffic Engineering (TE).…

Aptira22/12/2019

Apigee API Translation Case Studies

Apigee API Translation

One of the challenges we’ve faced recently involved an API translation mechanism required to perform API translations among different component’s native APIs, delivering a response…

Aptira30/08/2019

Implementing TMF APIs in Apigee Case Studies

Implementing TMF APIs in Apigee

A large Telco is building an Orchestration platform to orchestrate workloads that will be deployed in their Private Cloud infrastructure and spread across multiple data…

Aptira29/08/2019

Apigee Central Logging Case StudiesOpenStack

Apigee Central Logging

Completing a full-stack Private Cloud Evaluation is no mean feat. Central Logging by capturing and correlating information from all components, trapping and logging all required…

Aptira28/08/2019

Apigee: On-Prem Vs SaaS Case Studies

Apigee: On-Prem Vs SaaS

A large APAC Telco is building an Orchestration platform to orchestrate workloads that will be deployed in their Private Cloud infrastructure and spread across multiple…

Aptira27/08/2019

Apigee Service Orchestration and Integration Case Studies

Apigee Service Orchestration and Integration

The End-to-End Orchestration (E2e) of Services is achieved when the lifecycle events of network services are managed at the infrastructure level and managed across multiple…

Aptira26/08/2019

Designing & Building a Network Functions Virtualisation Infrastructure (NFVi) Orchestration Layer using Cloudify Case Studies

Designing & Building a Network Functions Virtualisation Infrastructure (NFVi) Orchestration Layer using Cloudify

One of our customers was building a greenfield Network Functions Virtualisation Infrastructure (NFVi) and requires Orchestration capabilities, but lacked the skills to do this themselves.…

Aptira08/08/2019

Swinburne Nextcloud Storage Case Studies

Swinburne Nextcloud Storage

Aptira previously built a large Ceph storage cluster for Swinburne. While the Ceph storage has been reliable, Swinburne wanted to offer a Dropbox-like user experience…

Aptira07/08/2019

Multi-Cloud Orchestration with Kubernetes, ONAP, Cloudify, Azure & OpenStack Case StudiesOpenStack

Multi-Cloud Orchestration with Kubernetes, ONAP, Cloudify, Azure & OpenStack

This customer is the research and development arm of a major Australian telecommunications company. They wanted to evaluate options to deploy and manage Virtual Network…

Aptira18/07/2019

Swinburne Ceph Upgrade and Improvement Case Studies

Swinburne Ceph Upgrade and Improvement

Swinburne is a large and culturally diverse organisation. A desire to innovate and bring about positive change motivates their students and staff. The result is…

Aptira15/07/2019

Lifecycle and Operational Management Orchestration Case Studies

Lifecycle and Operational Management Orchestration

An international Telecommunications provider requires an Orchestration solution to perform a range of lifecycle and operational management functions. One of our overseas customers has requested…

Aptira11/07/2019

Swinburne Ceph Deployment Case Studies

Swinburne Ceph Deployment

Swinburne University of Technology is an Australian public University based in Melbourne, Victoria. They need to set up a massive (think petabyte) storage system for their researchers to store…

Aptira09/07/2019

Designing Cloud Architecture for High Performance GPU-powered Desktops Case Studies

Designing Cloud Architecture for High Performance GPU-powered Desktops

A local University with a strong research focus had initiated a successful pilot project to bring remote, on-demand, interactive graphically intensive computing environments to a…

Aptira02/07/2019

Bare Metal High Performance Computing (HPC) Case Studies

Bare Metal High Performance Computing (HPC)

One of our customers is facing a problem with efficiently provisioning bare metal servers to their High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster. This challenge involved provisioning…

Aptira01/07/2019

Virtual Network Function (VNF) Service Function chaining using Cloudify Case Studies

Virtual Network Function (VNF) Service Function chaining using Cloudify

The linkage of network functions to form a service is often a very complex procedure. We were asked to validate service function chaining on a…

Aptira25/06/2019

Orchestrating and Managing a Wide Area Network Software Defined Network (WAN-SDN) using a Cloudify Service Orchestrator Case Studies

Orchestrating and Managing a Wide Area Network Software Defined Network (WAN-SDN) using a Cloudify Service Orchestrator

A use case that is often requested by our customers is managing and orchestrating a Wide Area Network Software Defined Network (WAN-SDN) in order to…

Aptira24/06/2019

Platform Auto Remediation with Zenoss Case Studies

Platform Auto Remediation with Zenoss

One of our Telecommunications customers operated an existing platform and had identified that there was a high load on the operations team who were detecting…

Aptira20/06/2019

Evaluating Red Hat and Mirantis OpenStack for Nokia Virtual Network Functions (VNF) Case StudiesOpenStack

Evaluating Red Hat and Mirantis OpenStack for Nokia Virtual Network Functions (VNF)

One of Australia’s leading service providers is moving their network operations to OpenStack, and would like us to evaluate Telco workloads on their internal cloud…

Aptira17/06/2019

Virtual Network Function Orchestration (NFVO) using Cloudify Case Studies

Virtual Network Function Orchestration (NFVO) using Cloudify

One of our customers was building a greenfield Network Functions Virtualisation Infrastructure (NFVi) platform on a private Cloud with a full-stack configuration. The NFVi platform…

Aptira31/05/2019

Segment Routing in Software Defined Networking Wide Area Networks (SDN-WAN) Case Studies

Segment Routing in Software Defined Networking Wide Area Networks (SDN-WAN)

While Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Virtualisation are becoming more and more popular amongst both academia and industry, there are still many challenges unsolved. One…

Aptira30/05/2019

Analytics Platform Consulting Case Studies

Analytics Platform Consulting

One of Australia’s leading Universities requires a centralised platform to provide access to large amounts of Telemetry data at different levels, with special attention paid…

Aptira29/05/2019

Creating L3 Virtual Private Networks (VPN) Tunneling Between Two Sites Case Studies

Creating L3 Virtual Private Networks (VPN) Tunneling Between Two Sites

A global player in the telecommunications market requires Layer 3 Virtual Private Networks (VPN) tunneling to send traffic between two sites. This Telco has asked…

Aptira28/05/2019

Passing the Certified OpenStack Administrator (COA) Exam Case StudiesOpenStack

Passing the Certified OpenStack Administrator (COA) Exam

One of Australia’s Government owned service providers is moving their network operations to OpenStack. They’d like to continue managing their Cloud platform internally but do…

Aptira27/05/2019

Platform and Service Assurance in a Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) Platform Case Studies

Platform and Service Assurance in a Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) Platform

One of the biggest challenges in building a Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) platform is reducing OPEX costs and bringing flexibility to the platform. Most vendors…

Aptira24/05/2019

Network Functions Virtualisation Orchestration (NFVO) Homologation Case Studies

Network Functions Virtualisation Orchestration (NFVO) Homologation

A major Telco needs to establish whether a particular Network Functions Virtualisation Orchestration (NFVO) solution performed correctly, not only as per the vendor claims, but…

Aptira23/05/2019

OpenStack Container Orchestration with Kolla-Ansible Case StudiesOpenStack

OpenStack Container Orchestration with Kolla-Ansible

A leading international Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Data Analytics Provider would like to upgrade their applications to utilise OpenStack and Container Orchestration, but were…

Aptira22/05/2019

Zenoss Implementation Case Studies

Zenoss Implementation

This use case covers two of a Telco’s custom-developed platforms that provide network overlay services to Fortune 500 companies and government entities. They require platform-wide…

Aptira21/05/2019

Big Data Case Studies

Big Data

One of Australia’s largest and well-known organisations has an internal Big Data team who are managing their system in a static and traditional way. But…

Aptira20/05/2019

Custom OpenStack Lab with Ceph Storage and Ansible Playbooks Case StudiesOpenStack

Custom OpenStack Lab with Ceph Storage and Ansible Playbooks

Most of our case studies are written about our customers. But this time, we’re the ones requiring a new solution to enable our Solutionauts to…

Aptira17/05/2019

Custom OpenStack Tools & Training Case StudiesOpenStack

Custom OpenStack Tools & Training

A large Telco leverages OpenStack components to host and manage Virtual Network Functions (VNF) for external network services, running RedHat’s OSP as their OpenStack platform.…

Aptira16/05/2019

Creating Virtual WAN Links using OpenKilda and Noviflow Case Studies

Creating Virtual WAN Links using OpenKilda and Noviflow

A local Communications Provider is facing problems managing Software Defined Networks in a Wide Area Network (SDN-WAN). They are facing connectivity issues transporting different traffic…

Aptira15/05/2019

Custom OpenStack Integration with Puppet Case StudiesOpenStack

Custom OpenStack Integration with Puppet

A Silicon Valley company who provides carrier-grade network services needs an OpenStack Cloud to be integrated with several of their existing systems – some of…

Aptira14/05/2019

VMware to OpenStack Migration Case StudiesOpenStack

VMware to OpenStack Migration

A well-known video streaming organisation has been operating on traditional hardware infrastructure and needs to upgrade to a cloud-based solution. We setup an internal lab…

Aptira13/05/2019

F5 NFV Automation Case Studies

F5 NFV Automation

A major Telco needed to determine the feasibility of implementing end-to-end lifecycle management for their F5 Virtual Network Functions (VNF). So we spun up a…

Aptira10/05/2019

LDAP & Puppet Case Studies

LDAP & Puppet

This organisation needed to build a lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) farm to provide authentication services for thousands of users. The directory required a log…

Aptira09/05/2019

Upskilling your Staff with OpenStack Case StudiesOpenStack

Upskilling your Staff with OpenStack

Sometimes, a standard hardware solution just doesn’t cut it. Typical physical servers are limited by their hardware and performance can suffer as a result. This…

Aptira08/05/2019

Complex Cloud Application Lifecycle Automation using Cloudify Case Studies

Complex Cloud Application Lifecycle Automation using Cloudify

One of the world’s largest IT companies required a Cloud native application orchestration solution for their data management services which can be potentially applied to…

Aptira07/05/2019

Full-Stack Evaluation of a Private Cloud Solution Case Studies

Full-Stack Evaluation of a Private Cloud Solution

One of our Enterprise Communications Service Provider customers is currently in the process of rolling out a large private Cloud platform to enable the deployment…

Aptira06/05/2019

Building a DevOps Toolkit for a Customised Kubernetes Deployment Case Studies

Building a DevOps Toolkit for a Customised Kubernetes Deployment

One of the most recent projects our Solutionauts have worked on involved developing a DevOps toolkit for customised Kubernetes deployment for one of our large…

Aptira03/05/2019

OpenStack Swift Deployment Case StudiesOpenStack

OpenStack Swift Deployment

One of Australia’s leading technology providers (who’s name we can’t mention due to security reasons) needed a secure multi-region private cloud to store their private…

Aptira02/05/2019

Introducing a New SDN Controller Case Studies

Introducing a New SDN Controller

A Tier 1 Telco has been experiencing ongoing operational issues around network stability, SDN controller version lag and gaps in pre-production testing procedures that have…

Aptira01/05/2019

Swinburne University of Technology Case Studies

Swinburne University of Technology

Swinburne University of Technology is a public university based in Melbourne, Australia. Swinburne fosters close ties with industry, business and governmental organisations to help ensure…

Aptira16/03/2018

University of Melbourne RDSI Case Studies

University of Melbourne RDSI

The University of Melbourne is the premier higher education institution of Victoria with a strong track record as technology leader, being the first and primary node…

Aptira29/05/2015

Telecommunications NFV Case Studies

Telecommunications NFV

A large telecommunications company in Australia is looking to investigate NFV, Network Functions Virtualisation. Network Function Virtualisation is a hot topic in the world of…

Aptira29/05/2015

National Computational Infrastructure Case Studies

National Computational Infrastructure

National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) is Australia's national research computing service. It provides high performance computing services to researchers, predominantly focussing on the environment and earth sciences.…

Aptira29/05/2015

Mercurial Case Studies

Mercurial

Mercurial (acquired by IMS Health) is a Business Intelligence company that operates a cloud based service to deliver live decision support capability to its clients across mobile…

Aptira29/05/2015

SME Service Provider Case Studies

SME Service Provider

Our client wanted to introduce an AWS like elastic multi-tenant IaaS to its managed service customer base in order to complement its existing traditional VMWare vCloud…

Aptira29/05/2015

BunnieCloud for Andrew “Bunnie” Huang Case Studies

BunnieCloud for Andrew “Bunnie” Huang

By far one of the most rewarding projects we have ever delivered also happened to be one of the smallest. We met Bunnie at Linux Conf AU in…

Aptira29/05/2015