PrintElectric Lightwave's Ethernet Services
Electric Lightwave's carrier-class Ethernet Service provides metropolitan and long haul connectivity to multiple locations. With Ethernet Services, wholesale customers can take advantage of Electric Lightwave's extensive fiber network to extend higher speed connectivity to customer locations without incurring capital build costs.
Increased Availability: services can now be delivered via Ethernet over Copper (EoC) and Ethernet over TDM (EoTDM), adding to ELI's existing capability on Fiber.
Ethernet Services are as secure as traditional private lines while providing customers with a more cost effective and flexible solution. Using Class of Service (CoS) technology, you're able to manipulate your traffic into four or eight queues and maximize underutilized bandwidth.
Electric Lightwave's initial Ethernet Services offering includes two E-Line products: Ethernet Private Line (EPL) and Ethernet Virtual Private Line (EVPL) , point-to-point and point-to-multipoint WAN connectivity. Future enhancements of the service will include E-LAN/VPLS network configurations.
| The Benefits of Electric Lightwave's Ethernet Services | |
|---|---|
| One vendor offering true convenience. | Electric Lightwave offers a single connection to aggregate your traffic, a single network interface to manage your network and one location for customer premise equipment that is easy to manage. |
| MEF Certified: Reliability you can trust. |  Electric Lightwave's service has passed rigorous 3rd party
testing and is MEF 9 and 14 certified. Our service meets the
5 attributes (Standardized Services, Scalability, Reliability,
Service Management, and Quality of Service) as defined by
the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF). |
| Customized solutions. | We work with you every step of the way. Electric Lightwave's expert staff will assist you in designing a custom solution to meet your specific needs. |
| Flawless service and support. | With Electric Lightwave's Ethernet Services, implementation and support are easy. |
| 24/7 Monitoring. | Your network is safe with us. With Electric Lightwave's monitoring of performance and security, we can offer guaranteed performance. |
MEF Carrier Ethernet Overview
The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) has defined Carrier Ethernet as a standard, ubiquitous, carrier-class service with the following five attributes:
- Standardized Services
- Scalability
- Reliability
- Service Management
- Quality of Service
Electric Lightwave's Ethernet Services are certified compliant by the MEF (under our parent company, Integra Telecom). When working with carriers who have MEF certified services, wholesale customers can feel confident that the carriers meet the Ethernet standards as set by the industry and that their Ethernet network will seamlessly interconnect to other carrier's Ethernet networks.
Carrier Ethernet Terminology
- User Network Interface (UNI): The UNI is the physical port of demarcation between the customer and service provider. In a Carrier Ethernet Network, the UNI is the physical Ethernet interface that is 10 Mbps, 100 Mbps, 1 Gbps, or 10 Gbps.
- Metro Ethernet Network (MEN): Ethernet transport that connects user endpoints.
- Network to Network Interface (NNI): The NNI is the interface between distinct MENs operated by one or more service providers.
- Ethernet Virtual Connection (EVC): The EVC connects two or more UNIs but prevents transfer of data that is not part of the same EVC. In a Carrier Ethernet network, data is transported across point to point or multipoint to multipoint EVCs.
- Committed Information Rate (CIR): CIR is the amount of bandwidth that is obligated to deliver information.
- Excess Information Rate (EIR): EIR is the excess amount of bandwidth that is available to deliver information.
To learn more about the technology behind Ethernet Services, and talk to experts, please visit: EthernetCentral.com