Uniti, a publicly traded infrastructure provider with 8 million strand miles of fiber, selected OcNOS SP from IP Infusion to advance the next stage of network growth. The company adopted network disaggregation to lower CAPEX and OPEX, ease legacy supply chain dependencies, and improve its environment, social, and corporate governance (ESG) profile through significantly reduced power consumption.
The Challenge
As a publicly traded company, Uniti needed equipment decisions that delivered both performance and shareholder value. Legacy vendor supply chain issues and rising costs were no longer aligned with the company's growth plans, prompting a review of the underlying aggregation network strategy.
"As a publicly traded company, timely upgrades and equipment acquisitions must be designed not only for performance but to provide shareholder value to the company. Legacy vendor supply chain issues and rising costs did not align with our growth," said Graham Wooden, Uniti's IP Services Engineering Director.
The Solution
Uniti chose OcNOS SP, IP Infusion's open Network Operating System, for its aggregation deployments. Disaggregating hardware from network software gave Uniti the freedom to source equipment more flexibly and standardize on a carrier-grade NOS purpose-built for service provider use cases.
- OcNOS SP running on disaggregated hardware for aggregation
- Open networking architecture to reduce supply chain exposure
- A platform designed for service provider scale and operations
Outcomes
The shift to open networking produced measurable financial and sustainability gains for Uniti.
- Reduced CAPEX and OPEX through network disaggregation
- Eased dependency on legacy vendor supply chains
- Improved ESG score with an 80% reduction in power needs
Why OcNOS
Uniti is part of the growing customer base that selected OcNOS during a period when IP Infusion saw strong demand in Provider Edge and Aggregation Router use cases. OcNOS SP gave Uniti a route to modernize aggregation economics while preserving the performance its publicly traded business required.