Network Consultant

11/2011 – offen

Responsibilities:
Network Consulting in the Advanced Services EU Service Provider Mobility team;
Planning, design, optimization, integration of the Cisco based IP/MPLS multiservice backbone network, IP RAN and Mobile Packet Core solutions.

Projects:
Evolved Packet Core planning, design and integration for SFR France
Providing system dimensioning, elements detailed configuration, network assessment and optimization for the EPC solution based on Cisco ASR5000

7/2010 – 10/2011

Responsibilities:
Providing Core Network planning and design services for IP/MPLS in Release 4 Mobile IP Backbone and LTE networks;
Providing system dimensioning, elements detailed configuration, network assessment and optimization;
Presales support (Solution Description, RFP) for various NSN solutions.

Projects:
Lead designer for the NSN planning team on T-Mobile Germany IP/MPLS Multiservice Backbone Network;
IP Consultant for All-IP topic for Vodafone Germany;
IP Consultant for SIGTRAN transport network for Cellcom Israel;
Presales support for the terrabit core routers RFP for T-Mobile Netherlands;

9/2009 – 6/2010

Responsibilities:
IP/MPLS network design for various mobile providers backbone and backhaul networks ;
Designing and implementing Next Generation Networks solutions based on routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, IS-IS), MPLS (LDP, MPLS-VPN, AToM, VPLS, MPLS-TE, QoS);

Projects:
IP RAN for Mobistar Belgium;
Part of the Ericsson Managed Services contract with Mobistar, i was involved in all the stages of the new FMC MPLS aggregation network planned to carry wireless services (including 2G and 3G services), residential internet services, VoIP services and business services;
Configuration of PWE3, SAToP, VPLS (Martini and Kompella), LDP, MP-BGP, BFD, QoS, Security, Traffic Engineering, MPLS OAM, U2000 umbrella NMS;
Acceptance tests;
Handover to Operations (trainings for the Front Office and Back Office NOC engineers);
Providing system dimensioning, elements detailed configuration, network assessment and optimization;
Providing 4th level support.