Metro Ethernet Services

Metro Ethernet is a reliable and fast connection that enhances your business continuity plan. Metro Ethernet, formerly called Native Mode LAN Interconnect (NMLI), is a general term describing a Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) topology. Metro Ethernet increases network capacity and offers a simple, scalable and affordable alternative to traditional technologies such as T1 or frame relay. Metro Ethernet can be used to connect to the public Internet and/or to build a private Wide Area Network (WAN). Ask how Metro Ethernet can help your business with its disaster recovery and risk mitigation plans.

Metro Ethernet provides:

Scalable, affordable bandwidth to fit a company’s needs
From 10 Mbps up to 1 Gbps, Metro Ethernet technology can fit within a company’s budget and bandwidth requirements and a large capital outlay is not required for start-up. Currently, many service providers use a technology called SONET/SDH (Synchronous Optical Network/Synchronous Digital Hierarchy). However, this technology, which was developed mainly for voice applications, doesn’t support Internet-based traffic nearly as well as Metro Ethernet and SONET’s equipment is exponentially more expensive.

Ease of installation
No routers are required with Metro Ethernet so companies do not have to purchase additional (often expensive) equipment to use a Metro Ethernet circuit.

Rapid upgrades
If a company decides it requires additional bandwidth once a Metro Ethernet circuit is installed, an upgrade requires no build-out and can be completed within a week in most cases.

Connectivity for multiple locations
A single Metro Ethernet connection can seamlessly network multiple locations to the Internet or to each other via a secure virtual local area network (VLAN) or virtual private network (VPN).

Disaster recovery
Metro Ethernet is a reliable method for interconnecting a company’s offices, applications and users and enables companies to quickly retrieve lost data from back-up sources.

Data replication
Metro Ethernet allows a company to quickly replicate data to another facility, thus fortifying that company’s risk mitigation plan.

Enhanced video conferencing capability
The connection speed of a Metro Ethernet circuit enables higher quality and more reliable video conferencing.

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