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LightSource provides customers with a complete portfolio of metro optical transport services, including Wavelengths, Metro Ethernet and SONET. LightSource is a fully managed offering where FiberLight will install, maintain and lifecycle the equipment. Our service portfolio is built upon our dense core metro fiber networks in 14 markets across the country. The family of LightSource services and options sets up a network based on high availability and mission critical security. Our managed capacity services provide carrier class reliability managed by 2 fully redundant NOC's, one located in Richardson, TX and one located in Sunnyvale, CA. Our fiber network is monitored on a physical level 24 hours a day 7 days a week notifying FiberLight proactively if there are any potential disperson or fiber cut issues to mitigate downtime and ensure our networks meet the highest government and industry standards.

LightSource Metro Ethernet

LightSource Ethernet Services can be configured as:

• Access
• Point to Point
• Ethernet Channel on a Dedicated Ring
• Point to Multipoint
• Multipoint to Multipoint   

These services range in bandwidth from 10MD to 10 Gbps and above.  There is an LightSource solution to fit your unique need.  LightSource Metro Ethernet has significantly altered the value to performance ratio for inter-connecting LANS and delivering high speed IP in metro areas. Leveraging FiberLight's core fiber optic speed and reliability, LightSource Metro Ethernet is extending the scalability, flexibility and ubiquity of Ethernet protocol to provide more powerful connectivity in response to accelerating data needs and shrinking IT budget.

 

Connecting multiple LANS over a fiber optic metro area networks, Metro Ethernet is the next evolution of metro networking from the old way of DS3 or OC-N connections. It provides seamless inter-networking and the ability to mix speeds by location and application to support high-speed data, Voice over IP and video applications. Metro Ethernet is available in both point-to-point and switched solutions from 10 megabits per second to ten gigabit per second bandwidths.

 

Speeds Flexible by Location and Application Fully compatible with 802.3z Standard Switched and Point-to-Point Solutions Full Duplex Speeds 10Mbps - 10,000 Mbps This service takes Ethernet to the next level without taking the cost to the next level. Some of the features available with our Premium Service include:

 

• Guaranteed Bandwidth minimums
• Bursting capabilities
• VLAN stacking support
• Service Level Agreements

LightSource Metro Ethernet delivers a simple migration to higher performance and value. It leverages your existing LAN infrastructure and IT staff resources, eliminating cost intensive customer premise equipment purchases and IT staff training.

LightSource Managed Wavelength

LightSource Managed Wavelength is an optical wavelength connection at either 2.5Gig or 10Gig. 

LightSource Managed Wavelengths enable you to cost-effectively access FiberLight's high-speed, fiber-optic network infrastructure to transport large amounts of data between metropolitan area networks. 

Managed Wavelength service is a point-to-point data transport service for interconnection to data centers, between sites and to carrier backbones. It uses a Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) signal over fiber and provides a more cost-effective local network connection than traditional networks. LightSource Managed Wavelength service splits the signal into multiple wavelengths that travel on a single strand of fiber.

LightSource Managed Wavelength service connects metro networks to long-haul services and provides interconnection handoffs of SONET and IXC Optical Wave service at SONET interface levels of 2.5 Gbps and 10 Gbps. This connection reduces the cost of SONET investment when interconnecting with long-haul service. LightSource Managed Wavelength service is ideal for MAN-to-WAN interconnection, consolidation of network circuitry and exchanging detailed data files.

LightSource Managed Wavelength service provides benefits such as:

• Ability to combine multiple connections onto a single fiber; thus reducing your communications cost per bandwidth.
• 24x7 circuit provisioning providing you with the ability to adjust service bandwidth to meet your needs
• Connection options to other optical network solutions such as SONET. In some cases, circuits terminate in the same rack/shelf as existing services such as LightSource Metro Ethernet service and LightSource SONET service.

LightSource Managed Wavelength Ring Service

Multi-service Managed Wavelength ring service provides high-volume optical transport using Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) technology in a dedicated ring configuration. With DWDM, fiber-optic cable transmits multiple data signals using different wavelengths of light over a single network. Our ring service provides multiple interface options to meet your native data transport needs. You maintain a more efficient network by eliminating the need for expensive protocol conversion devices. 

LightSource Managed Wavelength ring service provides benefits such as:

• End-to-end performance and alarm monitoring
• A wide range of optical protocols
• Enhanced network survivability by protecting the optical layer.

The service is suitable for such demanding applications as:

• Mainframe or Data Center mirroring
• Data Center connectivity
• Storage Area Network connections; and Disaster Recovery

Protected Wavelength Service

LightSource Managed Protected Wavelength Service (PWS) is a fully managed, custom Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) / SONET-based solution for interconnecting data centers or business sites in a highly reliable and secure metropolitan area network (MAN) environment. FiberLight will engineer a high availability network to a customer's specifications to support business continuity and reliability. This highly secure fiber optic MAN provides the communication path between a customer premises and FiberLight POP, or a third party fiber provider's nodes. 

PWS allows different types of data protocols to be carried over an optical channel and transmitted through protected equipment. FiberLight's diversely routed fiber network provides redundancy in the event of a fiber cut or equipment failure. PWS provides customers with a fully-managed alternative to dark fiber and a comprehensive network solution, in addition to:

• Diverse connections to FiberLight points of presence
• Secure private communications network
• Protocol-independent service channels
• No single point of failure
• Scalable design to meet changing infrastructure requirements
• Reliability engineered to application requirements and client risk profiles

Available in Bandwidth/Speeds: OC-3, OC-12, OC-48 and OC-192

Supported Protocols: Native IT (ESCON, FICON, GigE, D1, FDD1);1 & 2GB Fiber Channel; DS-1/ DS-3; OC-3, OC-12, OC-48, and OC-192 bandwidths; Fast Ethernet; Gigabit Ethernet, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, ISC; D1 Video; ETR; and SONET

PWS Network Management and Performance Features include:

• Network Operations Center (NOC) redundancy
• Fault Monitoring
• Alerting
• Ticketing
• Event Correlation and Root Cause Analysis
• Power Levels
• Node Connectivity
• Fault Management
• Provisioning Management
• Circuit & Equipment Inventory Reports
• Capacity Planning
• SONET
• DWDM
• Ethernet
• TDM Support
• Quality of Service (QoS)
• Storage Networking

Benefits of PWS services are:

• Business continuity for mission-critical operations
• Availability 24X7 to customers and partners High-speed transport with low latency, for access to large databases and transaction-intense applications
• Real-time network monitoring
• Reduced network complexity
• Improved network performance
• Ability to easily scale bandwidth and provision incremental services
• Improved ability to comply with industry and government standards for information access and protection
• Opportunities to reduce infrastructure and operating costs
• Seamless end-to-end integration
• Non-disruptive upgrading of service and capacity
• Consolidation of multiple DS-x and OC-x circuits
• Converged DWDM & Sonet technology and management scalability

PWS Customer Benefits and Business Applications are:

• Disk mirroring over Fiber Channel or FICON for customer's Business Continuity requirements between two customer locations.
• Enterprise server fail-over using Enterprise Systems Connection (ESCON) technology for Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex between two customer locations.
• Server fail-over for Unix / Linux / NT servers over GigE between two customer locations.
• LAN Bridging in the Metro over GigE between multiple customer locations.
• Broadcast Video Distribution over D1 or HDTV Digital Video between a Broadcast center and satellite locations.
• Access strategy to Tier 1 connectivity and transport services.
• Consolidation of low bandwidth services (DS-X, OC-X).
• Provides clients the means for Resilient Packet Rings (RPR)

LightSource IP Transit

LightSource IP Transit is FiberLight's solution to cost effectively accessing high speed Internet connectivity for our service provider customers looking to resell, or for government, enterprise and educational institutional clients for their internal users. FiberLight offers speeds of 10MB to 10Gig delivered in a protected or unprotected transport to the IP backbone of FiberLight's custom blend of 4 backbone providers. FiberLight also offers direct access to 12 backbone providers with no AS hops to allow for our clients to leverage our vast interconnections, IP agreements and our cost structure to simplify your IP procurement and ongoing management.

 

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