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(MAN)Metro Area Network Solutions
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Products and Services Overview
Make your business more productive. Taking less time to do work saves money. It also leaves more time for generating new revenue.
AboveNet can help.
Optimizing productivity depends on minimizing the economic and performance barriers that constrain information exchange at the server-to-server level, the gateway-to-network level, and across the network.
AboveNet offers a full-portfolio of optical networking services and solutions that address each potential bottleneck from the individual server level all the way across the network. And unlike other service providers, AboveNet solutions operate on an affordable and integrated all-optical infrastructure so you can truly eliminate constraints on information exchange instead of just moving bottlenecks to other downstream or upstream exchange points.
| (MAN) Metro Area Network Solutions |
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Service |
Applications/Benefits |
Descriptions |
| WDM Custom Wave |
Applications:
- e-commerce transactions
- the server-less office
- real-time transactions backup
- high-speed business continuity
- trending towards SAN architecture
- supports streaming multimedia
Benefits:
- interconnecting and consolidating data centers
- transparent extension of LAN across MAN
- supports packetized voice
- dedicates 100% of current & future circuit growth to the customer
- customer has exclusive equipment use
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With WDM Custom Wave, an interactive design approach allows AboveNet to incorporate complex customer requirements, next generation Wave Division Multiplexing (WDM) technologies, and best of breed equipment platforms to deliver unique private network solutions to AboveNet’s most demanding customers.
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| WDM Enhanced Wave |
WDM Enhanced Wave offers dedicated, point to point transport service that connects customer locations with a starter package system that includes an initial circuit and supports either WDM- based or port based growth options. Service is available as unprotected, protected or path protected with various circuit interfaces.
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| WDM Basic Wave |
WDM Basic Wave is a dedicated, point to point transport service that connects customer locations with a single circuit. Service is available as unprotected, protected or path protected with various circuit interfaces but no ability for WDM- based service growth. With Multiport circuit options, port based growth is possible.
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| Core Wave/ dcXchange |
Provides economical, high bandwidth connection for almost any customer locations within reach of AboveNet Fiber backbone |
Core Wave /dcXchange* provides high capacity circuits (1Gb, 2.5Gp, 10Gp, OC-12) between key carrier hotels and data centers in strategic markets in NA. Available as unprotected, protected services . Both services over shared WDM/ infrastructure.
*Product availability based on market |
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| Metro Ethernet Private
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Applications:
- Supports virtualization need for larger transport links
- Support high bandwidth video and media transfers
- Storage area networking and Disaster Recovery
- Data center consolidation, reduced server requirements
Benefits:
- Cost-savings by adding IP access on same pipe
Metro Ethernet Private:
- Dedicated bandwidth with guaranteed availability
- Security: no one else is on customer’s network
- Operational: not impacted by shared ring activities
- Control: all equipment service is at customer premises
- Performance: minimum equipment interfaces & components
Metro Ethernet Dedicated:
- Bridged or tunneled across core, no link oversubscription
- reserved bandwidth availability
- No managed equipment at customer’s premise = significant rack space & power cost savings at datacenters
Metro Ethernet Standard:
- Scalability: infrastructure can grow to meet needs
- No managed equipment at customer’s premise = significant rack space & power cost savings at datacenters
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- Speeds: 100mbs, 1GbE & 10GbE
- Completely private fiber & managed equipment
- Customer supplies space & power for managed equipment
- No shared components = more customer control
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| Metro Ethernet Dedicated
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- Speeds: 1GbE & 10GbE
- Dedicated metro fibers with connectivity into optimized network infrastructure
- Virtual Circuit with Guaranteed Bandwidth
- For incremental charge, customer can add IP Transit over same dedicated fiber for cost savings on separate metro tail
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| Metro Ethernet Standard
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- 100mbps & 1GbE.
- Standard Ethernet level connectivity into optimized network
- Virtual Circuit with Guaranteed Bandwidth.
- Add IP Transit over same dedicated fiber
- High-bandwidth via dedicated fiber tails from core network to customer premise
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Metro
Multipoint
Ethernet eHub
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Applications:
- Virtualization
- Financial data distribution/applications
- Data Center & Server Consolidation
- Centralized applications evolving to distributed networking
- Financial data distribution/applications
- Extranets/Collaboration
Benefits:
- Cost-effective compared to ATM, Frame
- No space & power needed at customer location: fiber handoff
- Provides true, scalable multipoint connections as compared to multiple point-to-point connections
- Flexible customer network expansion
- Guaranteed bandwidth availability
- IP add-on available at incremental charge
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Unprotected hub and spoke networking
eHub Dedicated - Bandwidth and fiber tails,
- provisioned across single MX
- 100mbps, 1Gb & 10Gb bandwidth
eHub Standard
- Dedicated Fiber tails to closest MX
- 100mbps, 1Gb, 2Gb, 3Gb & 5Gb bandwidth
- Shared Bandwidth
- QoS option
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Metro
Multipoint Ethernet eLAN
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Unprotected any-to-any networking
eLAN Dedicated - Dedicated Bandwidth and
- fiber tails, provisioned across single MX
- 100mbps, 1Gb & 10Gb bandwidth
eLAN Standard
- Dedicated Fiber tails to closest MX
- 100mbps, 1Gb, 2Gb, 3Gb & 5Gb bandwidth
- Shared Bandwidth
- QoS option
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| Metro Fiber Optic Infrastructure |
- Allows customers with the expertise to manage their own networking equipment
- Supports high bandwidth interconnection of customer corporate or partner sites
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- AboveNet offers low latency, Fiber Optic Infrastructure leases in point to point or ring configurations
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| (WAN)Wide Area Network Solutions |
Service |
Applications/Benefits |
Descriptions |
| VPN IPMesh
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Applications:
- Supports today’s high bandwidth, real-time or near real-time applications with multiple class of service offerings
- Create prioritization scheme to handle some or all of customer traffic
Benefits:
IPMesh
- Any-to-any connectivity offers LAN-like flexibility for uncertain traffic patterns
- Ready when VPN locations need to be added
- Mature VPN type: better suited for troubleshooting
- Accommodates Type 2 access, e.g., ubiquitous DS3 without requiring a book-ended device
eMesh
- Ideal for multiple locations 3+ locations
- Ethernet handoff viewed as secure: Service provider has no visibility to customer’s internal network
eWAN
- QoS feature allows customer to prioritize some or all traffic
- IP transit add-on
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IPMesh
- Layer 3 connectivity between three or more Customer Locations using private IP routing (RFC 2547) based on customer IP addresses
- Leverages the QOS enabled Tier 1 IP/MPLS Network to transport data between multiple customer locations in multiple cities
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| VPN eMesh
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eMesh
- Layer 2 multipoint connectivity between three or more Customer Locations using Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) for traffic forwarding based on Customer MAC addresses
- Ethernet handoff viewed as secure
- Service provider has no visibility to customer’s internal network
- Can transport any Layer 3 protocol customer uses
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| VPN eWAN |
eWAN
- Layer 2, point-to-point, circuit connectivity between two Customer Locations using MPLS encapsulation
- Bandwidth limitation increased to 1000mbps
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| IP Transit |
- High-bandwidth internet access
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- IP Transit is Internet Access service delivered to customers with a port connection on AboveNet’s Tier 1 IP network
- Service sold with a committed bandwidth, and the ability to burst to full port capacity
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| Metro IP |
- Supports high bandwidth applications requiring internet access
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- Metro IP service bundles a dedicated fiber connection from the customer premise to an AboveNet IP POP to provide Internet Access
- Service is offered with committed bandwidth of 20, 50, 100 Mbps or higher, and the ability to burst to full port capacity
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eXpressWavesm
Long Haul Optical Transport |
Point to Point inter-city connectivity for Enterprise customers to support :
- Voice, Data, Video,
- Mobility services
- Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery --Videoconferencing, TelePresence, eLearning
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- Long Haul point to point circuits provide transport between more than 78 city pair combinations across North America at 10G, 2.5G or 1G capacity going from POP to POP
- Add-ons to extend from AboveNet Long Haul POPs to customer premise are available
- Metro connectivity in 15 U.S. markets linking enterprise to enterprise and/or carrier to carrier Locations
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AboveNet helps your business rise above the bottlenecks inherent in the 100-year-old communications networks based on copper. Discover the power of unconstrained information exchange on an all-optical infrastructure to revolutionize productivity and transform your business.
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