Metro Ethernet

OVERVIEW

  • The state of the art in Internet connectivity. Fastest and reliable dedicated high speed Internet Access for mission critical applications. Guaranteed Bandwidth.
  • Bandwidth options are 10Mbps, 20 Mbps, 50Mbps, 100Mbps, or up to 1000Mbps.
  • 10Mbps Metro Ethernet pipe starting at $875 per month. 20M $1200 50M $1600 100M $2100
  • Built in redundancy

    • FEATURES

  • 24/7 “Local support and service.”
  • Static IP Addresses.
  • Web-based reporting and monitoring.
  • 24/7 customer router monitoring.
  • Service Level Agreement to assure your company of fast and reliable service.

Not so long ago, a T1 connection was the fastest vehicle available for delivering data services. It is still a very good option for many organizations. With expensive equipment it is possible to bond together multiple T1 circuits, and that works well for others who need a little more bandwidth. But there are other organizations that have needs that are greater than simply bonding circuits, or are growing so fast that they need more bandwidth faster than circuits to carry it can be ordered, or they require flexibility want the option of having extra bandwidth available on occasions when they need it.

A Metro Ethernet is a computer network that covers a metropolitan area and that is based on the Ethernet standard. It is commonly used as a metropolitan access network to connect subscribers and businesses to a larger service network or the Internet. 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 SONET/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/and Layer 3 switches or/and routers connected through optical fiber. The topology could be a ring, hub-and-spoke (star), or full or partial mesh. The network will also have a hierarchy: core, distribution (aggregation) 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