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

Software Interlude. Part 6 – Development Paradigms Thoughts

Software Interlude. Part 6 – Development Paradigms

In our last post, we discussed why software development (and managing software development projects) is so hard. In this Part 6 of the Open Networking Software…

Aptira25/04/2019

Software Interlude. Part 5 – Why is Software Development Hard? Thoughts

Software Interlude. Part 5 – Why is Software Development Hard?

In our last post, we discussed two different and incompatible perspectives on software development. In this part 5 of the Open Networking Software Interlude, we look at why…

Aptira24/04/2019

Software Interlude. Part 4 – What is Software Development? Thoughts

Software Interlude. Part 4 – What is Software Development?

In our last post, we discussed the different perspectives of software and how it affects the approach to Open Networking solutions by different stakeholder groups. In this Part 4 of…

Aptira19/04/2019

Software Interlude. Part 3 – Software Aint Software Thoughts

Software Interlude. Part 3 – Software Aint Software

In our last post, we discussed the essential nature of software and why it is different to any of the other “stuff” with which we…

Aptira17/04/2019

Software Interlude. Part 2 – What is Software? Thoughts

Software Interlude. Part 2 – What is Software?

In our last post we outlined the need for a “Software Interlude” before we moved on to a description of the third domain (Open Network Integration).  In this Part 2…

Aptira10/04/2019

Open Source Networking Days Australia Community Updates

Open Source Networking Days Australia

Coming Soon: Open Source Networking Days Australia Open Source Networking Day Australia is a one-day mini-summit hosted by Telstra and co-organized by LF Networking (LFN)…

Jessica Field09/04/2019

Software Interlude. Part 1 – Let’s talk about Softwareisation Thoughts

Software Interlude. Part 1 – Let’s talk about Softwareisation

In the last post we completed our description of the second functional domain of Open Networking: Open Network Software.  The fundamental trend in the evolution of…

Aptira27/03/2019

One Small Step Just Won’t Cut It Company Updates

One Small Step Just Won’t Cut It

As you may have already noticed, many of our Solutionauts like to run. We run in the City to Surf. We run around conferences. We…

Jessica Field20/03/2019

Introducing RabbitMQ to Machine Learning Algorithms Technical Documentation

Introducing RabbitMQ to Machine Learning Algorithms

It has been an interesting week. Without any fanfare, I quietly introduced our Machine Learning code to the production RabbitMQ cluster for the first time. Hoping to improve our…

Aptira13/03/2019