The background for this case study is that leading global carrier with more than $30 billion in revenues had launched a strategic initiative to significantly reduce the $10 billion in local access transport costs it was spending with the local telephone companies (LECs). This then left CFN Services with a challenge. This challenge was to look at feasibility for local access network optimization and LEC collocation expansion into markets with a strong preexisting fiber footprint. They then would build a business case for network expansion across all types with the limited capital deployment and no required operational resource expansion needed.

CFN then analyzed the carrier’s embedded access transport circuits, the costs and the growth requirements at the many facilities level for Las Vegas, NV; Norfolk, VA; and Houston, TX to figure out the carrier was spending more than $25 million annually on special access and multiplexing services. They then thought that by leveraging FiberSource ® CFN may be able to iterate the carrier’s capacity requirements and then embedded cost structure against the available base of a 3^rd party fiber facility’s infrastructure.

The final solution included: Turnkey deployment of end-to-end fiber networks in 3 mark, interconnection of the carrier’s POP with 36 LEC collocations, gross access savings of more than 60% and net transport savings of more than 35%.

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