City Stars Complex, Star Capital 5, Omar Ibn El Khattab St.

, Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt Hotline 16700 Fax + (202) 3748 2816

Email info@noor.net Web www.noor.net
NOOR Internet Datasheet

Technical Overview

NOOR dedicated Internet service is a permanent dedicated bandwidth connection that
allows multiple internal users to simultaneously utilize numerous Internet services such as
email, web browsing, file transfer, e-business, and intranet applications.

NOORs dedicated service continues to deliver seamless access to the Internet and is
designed to give always on, reliable high performance for critical applications.

Service Overview

NOORs MPLS cloud delivers an optimal path linking our routers to our Internet gateways,
guaranteeing service level agreements, network resiliency and high availability.

In order to ensure uninterrupted service to our customers, NOOR implemented several high
availability strategies:

Provider Diversity: Flag Telecom, PCCW and Level 3 are among our uplink carriers.
Marine Cable Diversity: NOOR uplinks are carried through several marine and terrestrial
cables.
Local Diversity: NOOR uses three separates gateways in two different governorates
Hardware Redundancy: NOOR deploys redundant power supplies, Ethernet cards and
links

NOOR Additional Service

Central Internet convenient access to the data network (interconnecting all branches)
and the Internet through a single connection, with guaranteed parameters

Remote access into MPLS L3VPN possibility to access the company's MPLS L3-VPN
through a standard Internet connection using NOORs mVPN technology (using IPSec
encryption for the security and privacy of the data) for telecommuters and "road warriors"

Service Level Agreement (SLA) NOOR's commitment to quality and availability of our
service

L2-VPN provides point-to-point connectivity on layer 2, eliminating the need for NOOR
to participate in the Enterprise routing. L2-VPN also provides seamless integration with
existing L2 technologies, such as ATM, TDM, Ethernet, PPP and HDLC





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MPLS Exchange Point (MEP) is convenient way to get a VPN connected with other
MPLS VPN networks, either inside NOORs network or with other operators (national and
international)


NOOR MPLS Layer 2 VPN
Improve the performance of your companys productivity


Technical Overview

NOORs Next Generation Network (NGN) makes it very easy to provide VPN services based
on MPLS technologies. Layer 2 VPN offers a dependable, versatile, secure and fast platform
to improve companywide processes and maximizes value from enterprise applications.


Service Overview

MPLS L2-VPN service is ideal for customers who want to join two of their LAN segments
which are geographically apart, to logically create a single LAN (this service can be thought
of as LAN Extension). In addition, MPLS can work with any underlying layer 2 protocols
providing flexible service delivery.

In the MPLS L2-VPN, routing occurs through the customers routers and allows those
customers to maintain the administration of their network, without any interaction from the
service provider. This includes routing, QoS, and security.

Servi ce appl i cabi l i ty

NOOR provides interconnectivity between any two sites with the following encapsulations:
Ethernet, ATM, Frame-Relay, PPP, and HDLC



NOOR also supports both IPv4 and IPv6 transport protocols.


Servi ce scal abi l i ty

If more than 2 sites need to exchange data traffic, NOOR also provides a cost effective hub
and spoke solution. Using this service, one site (usually the headquarters) acts as the main
site and many point-to-point (P2P) virtual circuits are established between the remote sites.





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NOOR MPLS Layer 3 VPN
High-speed, Business-critical Data Connectivity

Technical Overview

In order to cope with the growing business needs for Enterprise customers to increase
productivity, NOOR delivers carrier-grade MPLS Layer 3 VPN services to transport Data,
Voice and video traffic across a converged infrastructure. NOOR ensures an end-to-
end Quality of Service and provide exceptional security for the data transported.

MPLS Layer 3 VPN introduced new services for Enterprise Networks promising to bring
down cost, increase reliability and scalability, which were often missing in legacy networks.
In Addition, lower latency, higher security and bandwidth.

Service Overview

MPLS VPNs introduced the possibility to have a "full mesh" network at the cost of "hub &
spoke" topology.

Moreover, MPLS VPN is a true VPN technology that guarantees the traffic isolation and
security using a single routing instance (VRF) for each customers VPN.

Quality of Service

NOOR provides an end-to-end quality of service and removes the configuration hassle from
the customer by being responsible for QoS requirements between the different branches. In
addition, our service ensures that your most crucial of communications can always get to
their destination in the fastest time, without getting clogged up and slowed down on the
network. Similarly, if the fastest route is for any reason unavailable, the next fastest route will
be located and used.

NOOR proposed four service classes for its customers. Using the DiffServ model the 4
service classes are:


Premium: for real-time delay and jitter-sensitive applications such as Voice over Ip (VoIP)
Gold: for bandwidth demanding mission-critical data applications
Silver: for application like video streaming (allowing limited amount of packet losses)
Bronze: all unclassified traffic that will be given the best-effort treatment








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NOOR MPLS 3G mVPN for
remote branches

Background & Applicability


Given the current environment where the incumbent national telco cannot guarantee, for all
remote branches of a company, the availability of a pair of copper wires for the "last mile"
connection and, taking in account the frequent "main telephonic distribution cable" cuts or
thefts, one needs to consider wireless connections as an alternative to the DSL lines when
the "last mile" is either not available to order from Telecom Egypt or suddenly interrupted by
cuts or thefts. Another given, in this environment, is the cost and delivery time to obtain a
wireless license for microwave, WiMAX or directional WiFi links. On the contrary, 3G does
not require a license, is nearly ubiquitous in urban areas, and is available from 3 different
mobile operators.

For any remote branch with "last mile" issues, NOOR's MPLS 3G mVPN solution allows the
use of a commonly available 3G Internet connection to join the company's MPLS L3 VPN
network.

This facility provides a cost effective way to build and complete the existing networking
infrastructure, leveraging the existing investment of all the existing MPLS L3 VPN
connections between the headquarters and the other remote branches.

MPLS 3G mVPN advantages


1. Cost a cost effective solution that provide a wireless connectivity that is cheaper than
other wireless technologies like WiMax and Microwave links
2. Availability - compared to other types of wireless links, a 3G connection is generally
available immediately in most urban areas
3. Hassle-free paperwork - again, compared to other types of wireless links, a 3G
connection does not required a license from NTRA, therefore saving money (cost of the
license) and time (long delay to get the first license from NTRA)
4. Hassle-free setup - for the customer's IT department because NOOR manages the entire
setup and all the provisioning and support actions are performed by NOOR. All what is
needed from the IT department is to provide NOOR with its IP addressing scheme for the
routers LAN interface.
5. Flexibility NOOR's MPLS 3G mVPN does not depend on a single mobile operator but it
can operate through any of the mobile operators depending on the 3G signals strength at
the customer's premises.
6. Mobility mVPN routers can be transferred from one site to another with minimum
configuration change which can be done remotely by NOORs service delivery team to
reflect the change of IP addressing scheme for the router's LAN interface.
7. Security & confidentiality - NOOR's MPLS 3G mVPN product is relying on the
established IPsec technology suite to provide a secure connection to NOOR's mVPN
concentrator, the entry point to NOOR's MPLS cloud. Once "patched" through NOOR's



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Service Description

NOORs MPLS 3G mVPN service for remote branches or satellite offices relies on IPsec
tunnels to provides privacy (1), integrity (2) and authentication (3) for transmitting sensitive
information over the 3G Internet connection of any Mobile Operator, until reaching NOOR's
mVPN concentrator where the different IPsec tunnels are mapped to their respective
customers' VPN routing & forwarding (VRF) instance, thereby "patching through" the remote
mVPN client network to the customer's MPLS VPN concentrator as if it was directly
connected to NOOR's PE router via a normal DSL land line.

This approach provides the same usual benefits of the MPLS VPN connections over SDSL
land lines: a point-to-multipoint "full mesh" topology, the VPN privacy, the ability to control
the routing protocols and how users at the remote branch utilize the VPN, to name a few
benefits, with the added specific advantage to be able (3G coverage permitting) to get the
service delivered in locations where there is no "last mile" copper wires available or where
the main telephonic distribution cable have been cut or stolen, between the customer's
branch and the closest Central Office of Telecom Egypt.

This MPLS 3G mVPN connection for remote branches service can be combined to a
regular MPLS VPN connection over a SDSL land line to provide a backup path (over any 3G
Internet connection) for the normal "land line" path.

Service availability & service performance

Because part of the solution relies on the 3G Internet connection from a Mobile Operator, the
solution "as a whole" is as available and reliable as the 3G connection permits it to be.

In other words, the availability and the performance of NOOR's mVPN service depend on the
availability and the performance of the Mobile Operator's 3G network in the vicinity of the
customer's branch.

Practically, this means that the connection's availability is contingent on the 3G network
coverage and the signal strength at the remote branch (the mVPN client), the communication
latency (4) is affected by the variable network latency profile of the 3G network and the
available bandwidth (5) -either in upload or in download- too, is affected by the variable
network conditions within the Mobile Operator's cloud.

A site survey is highly recommended before subscribing to NOOR's MPLS 3G mVPN
connection for remote branches service. However, the outcome of the site survey does not
guarantee the service availability and performance in the future, because the 3G network
conditions can vary over time and NOOR declines all responsibility concerning the
availability and the performance of the 3G connection because NOOR does not have control
over it.

1- Cryptography ensures data confidentiality
2- hash codes ensure data integrity
3- authenticity between participating peers ensures data origin
4- the "network latency" is the measure of the time taken for a sent packet of data to be
received at the other end
a) the "network bandwidth" represents the volume of information per unit of time that a
transmission medium can handle



City Stars Complex, Star Capital 5, Omar Ibn El Khattab St., Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt Hotline 16700 Fax + (202) 3748 2816
Email info@noor.net Web www.noor.net


Benefits from NOOR:

Highly redundant architecture for continuous service delivery
Secure private network on privately owned MPLS core
Quality of Service (QoS) over the MPLS cloud
Guaranteed performance with minimal delay and jitter
Seamless integration with existing layer 2 networks
Point-to-point connectivity
Anonymous IP addressing
24/7 NOC support for all our customers
Reduced costs, management overheads and increased flexibility via a single
infrastructure
Reduced implementation costs by using existing equipment (subject to compatibility)
Complete control over customers network without any layer 3 interactions with NSP
(routing, QOS, and security features)



NOOR Services:

Internet
MPLS Layer 3 VPN
MPLS Layer 2 VPN
mVPN
Telecommuter
Managed Service
Dedicated Hosting
Shared Hosting
Co-located Hosting