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Metro optical ethernet applications :
Optical ethernet can facilitate virtually all business communication needs. These include: voice (telephone), video conferencing, central data base access, email, video/audio streaming and many more. Over an MPLS network with CoS ( Class of Service), fiber can facilitate any or all of these applications simultaneously over a single circuit.
Metro optical ethernet SLAs (service level agreements) :
Optical ethernet is extremely reliable, and is provided with the same or better service level guarantees as other traditional forms of commercial bandwidth such as T1 or DS3.
Optical ethernet can be burstable :
One of the great advantages of optical ethernet is that it is often available as burstable bandwidth. With burstable bandwidth, a customer could order and pay for a set amount of bandwidth, like 100 mbps, but have access to automatically burst above the 100 mbps up to 1000 mbps during periods of special need. An example of a business that would benefit by using burstable bandwidth would include call centers which routinely use 100 mbps for their phone and internet service, but must burst above the 100 mbps during each time one of their products is advertised nationally. With burstable bandwidth, a business is only charged for the extra bandwidth when they use it. So for the example of the call center, their monthly bill would only be for the 100 mbps, plus the cost of extra bandwidth used, but only for the time they used the extra bandwidth. This provides much savings over paying for 1000 mbps for the entire month just so the business would have the extra bandwidth during intermittent periods of extra need.
Metro optical ethernet access :
With optical ethernet, access is extremely important. Optical ethernet can only be provided over fiber. In order to receive optical ethernet, the building of a business must have fiber running to it. Due to capital concentrations, optical ethernet is much more available in large “NFL” type cities, and harder (sometimes impossible) to access in rural areas. When a building has access to fiber, it is commonly referred to as a “lit” building. Thousands of business buildings in the US are currently lit with fiber. For companies that have lit buildings, bandwidth is obtainable for extremely reasonable prices. For buildings that are not lit however, running fiber to the building can be quite expensive. To understand why, imagine the challenges of gaining right of ways, and installing a fiber line between two points a mile apart in the downtown portion of major city like New York, Chicago, or Los Angeles. Depending on the unique challenges involved in each situation, some estimate the cost to lay fiber to be as high as $400 per foot. For this reason, it’s not uncommon for a business that is within short distance of fiber access to be quite shocked at the cost to obtain fiber access over what they considered to be such a short distance. Usually, lighting a building (laying the new fiber is usually referred to as build-out) is passed directly to the business customer, but in some situations, telecom providers will absorb the cost of build-out to an unlit building to obtain a promising long term customer. However, this is determined on a case-by-case basis that varies depending on which telecom provider is involved, and the size of prospective customer. Because the rights to fiber routes are owned by such a wide variety of different telecom providers, it can be quite difficult for a business to determine fiber proximity to their buildings.
Cost of metro optical ethernet :
Metro ethernet is commonly offered at very reasonable prices when compared to other forms of bandwidth such as T1 or DS3. For example, in urban areas, T1 can now be obtained for as low as $200 per mbps, and full DS3 can be obtained for as low as $55 per mbps. In comparison, 100 mbps of metro optical ethernet can cost as little as $25 per mbps.
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