Truyens Data Services CommV

Network design, implementation and systems integration

Network design for Service Providers.

  • Multi-tiered hierarchies: Core/Access/Border/Services
  • Using BFD, OSPF, BGP protocols
  • MPLS networks
Reference Customer
RCS-Communication operates a fibre network in Juba, South-Sudan with 6 POPs and 2 fully redundant DCs.

Implementation of network services for Service Providers.

  • Hardware installations
  • Configuration - Manual and through DevOps integrations (Puppet/Terraform)
  • Integration with monitoring/alerting/backups (SNMP/API/scraping)
Brands
  • Mikrotik
  • Juniper
  • Extreme
  • Cisco

Bandwidth Management and Quality of Service enforcement.

Policy setup and systems integration.

  • Allot NetEnforcer
  • Sandvine PTS/SPB
  • SaiSei
Reference Customer
RCS-Communication utilizes the latest technology to ensure the best Quality of Service, even with limited bandwidth available.

Systems Administration

Linux System Administration

Installation and Configuration - Manual and through DevOps integrations (Puppet/Terraform).
Software
  • Apache/NGINX
  • PostgreSQL/MySQL
  • Postfix/Dovecot
  • BIND/DNSdist/ExaBGP
  • FreeRADIUS/OpenLDAP
  • ELK Stack, Grafana, Sensu
  • Any many more...

Kubernetes System Administration

Installation and Configuration - Manual and through DevOps integrations (Puppet/Terraform/Helm).
Software
  • Argo Workflow
  • Prometheus/Mimir/Grafana
  • ELK Stack
  • Sensu/Keycloak/Vault/
  • JupyterHUB/Netbox
  • Any many more...

Systems Integration

Integration of network devices in systems and workflow automation

Projects
  • Monitoring all network devices and traffic through Grafana dashboards.
  • Alerting for network issues through alerting workflows with notifications and automatic resolutions.
  • Centralized logging using ELK stack.
  • Backing up configuration into Git Repository through Oxidized.
  • Automatic provisioning and configuration of network devices through Puppet configuration.
  • Automatic provisioning and configuration of bandwidth management and QoS systems from CRM system.
Reference Customer
RCS-Communication utilizes Puppet configuration management to manage all it's Mikrotik devices. All monitoring systems are automatically provisioned from centralized Hiera configuration.

Integration of open source software and workflow automation

Projects
  • Full automatic provisioning with Puppet Razor and Cloudstack and handover to Puppet.
  • Puppet 'Roles and Profiles' control repository with Hiera configuration.
  • Seamless migration from VMs to Kubernetes.
Reference Customer
RCS-Communication utilizes Puppet configuration management to manage all it's servers and software.

Custom Development

Custom development of small scripts and workflow automation

Projects
  • Prometheus Backbox Exporters for Mikrotik, Sandvine, AppNeta
  • Argo Workflows for Kubernetes node remediation, custom alerting pipelines, SLA reporting
Software
  • Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl
  • Argo Workflow, JupyterHUB

Custom development of Web-based services

Projects
  • NMS for managing Mikrotik devices (configuration/firmware upgrade/password rotation)
  • Apache OFBiz customizations
  • This website (Hugo)
Software
  • PHP - Laravel/Lumen
  • Apache OFBiz (JAVA)
  • Hugo (static site generator)

General

  • Project Management
  • Small team management - ChatOps

Experience in East-Africa; with VSAT and other satellite operators.

Reference Customer
RCS-Communication is a leading ISP in South Sudan with both a fibre-based network in Juba and various VSAT platforms.