Point to Point
Ethernet Line is a point-to-point LAN-interconnect service supporting the transparent delivery of ethernet frames over a dedicated connection between any two sites.
Ethernet Line product can be delivered in several different ways with a number of different features.
Dynamic Route - A variable route from site to site, which often relies on the restoration capability inherent in an IP/MPLS routed network.
This configuration allows quick switching through a backbone network whilst providing redundancy. Should a link in the backbone network (which is carrying your traffic) fail, then a new path will be automatically selected to reroute the traffic and maintain the service. Dynamic Route build types are useful where resiliency of the service is more important than the latency of traffic passing through.
Fixed Route - A geographically defined static route or routes from site to site.
This is useful where specific routes are required to optimise latency and/or plan diversity. Fixed Route build types can be configured as either Unprotected or Protected where a pre-configured backup path is reserved to maximise the survivability of the service under failure scenarios. The typical switching time from “Worker” to “Protection” path is equal to or less than 50 ms in order to minimise traffic disruption.
A 01T Wavelength service is a dedicated, Layer 1 optical light channel provided on multiplexed fibre optic cable. This provides high-capacity, Point-to-Point Layer 1 transparent optical data connections between two locations.
Optical technologies are used in conjunction with OTN, Mux/Demux or muxponder equipment. They provide deterministic performance and are fully transparent to higher level OSI Layer 2, Layer 3 and above protocols. Latency is not subject to variation and is determined largely by the fibre distance between the two end-points. Frame loss/bit error rates and jitter are at the lowest possible technical levels, as befitting an optical multiplexed network.
01T Wavelength provides fully dedicated bandwidth and are full-duplex, protocol-independent services, which means clients can use the full amount of the bandwidth supplied in either direction.
01T Dark Fibre provides optical fibres which comply with industry standard specifications, specifically ITU G.652 and ITU G.655. As electronics are not provided client equipment determines the technology and interfaces used.
Dark Fibre is unlit fibre supplied without electronics. The service provides clients with an infrastructure over which they can design, build and operate their own network.
01T Dark Fibre provides optical fibres which comply with industry standard specifications, specifically ITU G.652 and ITU G.655. As electronics are not provided client equipment determines the technology and interfaces used.
Dark Fibre is an inert connectivity product that requires optical equipment to pass light down a single strand of fibre optic cable. It's capabilities are limited only by the optical equipment used to light it. Most commonly Dark Fibre is utilised to create SDH/SONET Synchronous Optical Networks or Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexed (DWDM) networks with huge and segregated bandwidth capabilities. DWDM also benefits from being protocol and bitrate agnostic.
Dark Fibre can be utilised with existing enterprise optics (SFP/SFP+) rated to the bandwidth and distance parameters of the modules. Alternatively, with standalone optical hardware it is possible to create multiple wavelengths (or light channels) at either 10 GbE, 40 GbE and even 100 GbE.