The Internet provides access to global resources enhancing knowledge, expertise, experiences, history, social networking and entertainment. Big Bang Broadband goes much further, building a carrier-grade network that will serve a community of interest for residential, commercial, governmental, educational, and healthcare stakeholders with robustness, reliability and flexibility for several decades.
Carrier-grade networks segregate traffic into three hierarchies of operational layers: the Access layer which comprises the “last-mile” facilities that connects subscribers to the network; the Aggregation layer which consolidates individual subscriber traffic at those network entry points; and the Core layer which transports traffic to and from a source and destination. Each of these hierarchical network layers requires the definition of specialized performance criteria and different “back up” and “alternative routing” mechanisms if they are to provide the resilience and reliability required of such a critical infrastructure to modern-day life.
We often see networks that are built only to handle today’s demand or today’s FCC minimal performance criteria. We believe this is a flawed decision with the inevitable results appearing as early as five years after the project is launched – during the next technology refresh cycle. While future-proof, carrier-grade networks continue to operate flawlessly, with the flexibility to accommodate demand growing by orders of magnitude, these “lesser” networks simply fail to provide the interconnectedness promised to its users, but inadequate in the face of that future growth.
Big Bang Broadband principals have been designing and building carrier-grade networks for almost half a century. We understand growth, reliability, flexibility and the evolution of demand for such networks—and have since even before the commercial success of the Internet! When BBB designs and builds a network for its partners, we take the long view and anticipate the fundamental changes in wide-scale demand that will result from its mere existence. When macro-influences such as the “Internet of Things” create profound increases in network demand, our networks will provide the flexibility to accommodate that demand while others may be facing a “rip and replace” ultimatum. A carrier-grade network, simply put, is a network built by people who have “been there before” and understand the consequences of inferior design!