Metro Ethernet Services
Metro Ethernet provides Broadband Connectivity for Private Networks and the necessary transport services such as high speed internet access within and between metropolitan areas.
Metro Ethernet Features
For businesses with multiple locations in and between metropolitan areas. Ethernet services provide a simple, cost-effective solution to private network interconnectivity. You can achieve a point-to-point or any-to-any connectivity, or a mixture of both.
Connections from 10Mbps up to 1Gbps, 24x7 monitoring and customer care, Service Level Agreements, supplied CPE plus support for 10BaseT, 100BaseTX and 1000LX are all available with Metro Ethernet Services.
Metro Ethernet Primary Benefits
Reduce WAN performance bottlenecks with bandwidths from 10Mbps up to 1Gbps (Gigabit Ethernet), freeing you from WAN transport performance constraints
- Simplify LAN / WAN transport interconnection management
- Lower costs by reducing the need for in-house transport technical staff
- Implement a solution that can scale to support your business as it grows
- Simplify the interconnection of your locations within and between metro areas
- Ensure optimum LAN speed performance when sending data
- Eliminate your need to purchase or manage transport Customer Premise Equipment
- Backed by customer care representatives dedicated to servicing your account 24x7.
Ethernet over Copper Service
Discover the reliable and efficient way to connect Local Area Networks (LANs) within and between metropolitan areas at affordable rates. Using Ethernet over Copper technology, we provide businesses at copper-fed locations with an easy plug-and-play solution for linking multiple locations on one network.
Ethernet over copper Features
For businesses with multiple locations in and between metropolitan areas, Private Data Networking Metropolitan and Intercity services provide a simple, cost-effective solution to private data interconnectivity.
We make private network interconnectivity simple. Enjoy native Local Area Networking speeds across your multi-facility network without the cost and responsibility of buying, configuring, and managing additional equipment.
Also, gain the necessary transport for other services, including high-speed internet access.
Ethernet over Copper Primary Benefits
- Access standards-based Ethernet protocol for private data applications and services.
- Get 10Mbps serial managed connectivity from point-to-point between two cities
- Ensure optimum speed performance when sending data between your locations.
- Simplify LAN / WAN transport interconnection management
- Frees you from WAN transport performance constraints
- Nationwide, facilities-based, state-of-the-art OC-192 Internet Protocol (IP) backbone
- Backed by industry level Service Level Agreements
- Eliminate the need to invest in new equipment for high bandwidth capabilities
- Lower costs by reducing the need for in-house transport technical staff
- Scalable to support data demands up to 10Mbps speed
- 24x7 customer support and proactive network monitoring and single invoice billing.
Metro Ethernet Technical Description
A Metro Ethernet is a computer network based on the Ethernet standard and which covers a metropolitan area. It is commonly used as a metropolitan access network to connect subscribers and businesses to a Wide Area Network, such as the Internet. Large businesses can also use Metro Ethernet to connect branch offices to their Intranet.
Ethernet has been a well known technology for decades. An Ethernet interface is much less expensive than a SDH or PDH interface of the same bandwidth. Ethernet also supports high bandwidths with fine granularity, which is not available with traditional SDH connections. Another distinct advantage of an Ethernet-based access network is that it can be easily connected to the customer network, due to the prevalent use of Ethernet in corporate and, more recently, residential networks. Therefore, bringing Ethernet in to the Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) introduces a lot of advantages to both the service provider and the customer (corporate and residential).
A typical service provider Metro Ethernet network is a collection of Layer 2 or 3 switches or routers connected through optical fiber. The topology could be a ring, hub-and-spoke (star), full mesh or partial mesh. The network will also have a hierarchy: core, distribution and access. The core in most cases is an existing IP/MPLS backbone, but may migrate to newer forms of Ethernet Transport in the form of 10G or 100G speeds.
Ethernet on the MAN can be used as pure Ethernet, Ethernet over SDH, Ethernet over MPLS or Ethernet over DWDM. Pure Ethernet-based deployments are cheap but less reliable and scalable, and thus are usually limited to small scale or experimental deployments. SDH-based deployments are useful when there is an existing SDH infrastructure already in place, its main shortcoming being the loss of flexibility in bandwidth management due to the rigid hierarchy imposed by the SDH network. MPLS based deployments are costly but highly reliable and scalable, and are typically used by large service providers.