AboveNet, a provider of high-bandwidth connectivity solutions, has deployed Ciena’s 2RS module for the “FlexSelect Advanced Services Platform” as part of the service provider’s recently introduced “Agility Guarantee” program, which provides industry-leading ultra-low latency service level agreements
The new module helps reduce delay by up to 20 percent, enabling AboveNet to offer its customers high-bandwidth connectivity for critical, latency-sensitive applications, such as algorithmic or futures trading, VoIP and video.
AboveNet serves its business and carrier customers over a private fiber optic network that delivers network connectivity and IP services in and among top U.S. metro markets and globally.
With the Agility Guarantee program, AboveNet is now offering its financial services, energy trading, online gaming, and media and entertainment customers a network solution that delivers round-trip latencies as low as sub-one millisecond for some services.
The program uses real-world, round-trip numbers for the end-to-end network – not one-way metrics, averages or SLAs for only part of the network, such as between points of presence.
“When tiny fractions of a second can mean the difference in huge amounts of revenue, latency is by far the top priority and key decision criteria for our target customers, which is why our fiber-intensive private optical network gives us a huge advantage over competitors that have lots of intermediary routers, switches and other equipment that simply add more latency and potential points of failure to the network,” says MaryBeth Nance, AboveNet executive director.
AboveNet, a provider of high-bandwidth connectivity solutions, has deployed Ciena’s 2RS module for the “FlexSelect Advanced Services Platform” as part of the service provider’s recently introduced “Agility Guarantee” program, which provides industry-leading ultra-low latency service level agreements
The new module helps reduce delay by up to 20 percent, enabling AboveNet to offer its customers high-bandwidth connectivity for critical, latency-sensitive applications, such as algorithmic or futures trading, VoIP and video.
AboveNet serves its business and carrier customers over a private fiber optic network that delivers network connectivity and IP services in and among top U.S. metro markets and globally.
With the Agility Guarantee program, AboveNet is now offering its financial services, energy trading, online gaming, and media and entertainment customers a network solution that delivers round-trip latencies as low as sub-one millisecond for some services.
The program uses real-world, round-trip numbers for the end-to-end network – not one-way metrics, averages or SLAs for only part of the network, such as between points of presence.
“When tiny fractions of a second can mean the difference in huge amounts of revenue, latency is by far the top priority and key decision criteria for our target customers, which is why our fiber-intensive private optical network gives us a huge advantage over competitors that have lots of intermediary routers, switches and other equipment that simply add more latency and potential points of failure to the network,” says MaryBeth Nance, AboveNet executive director.
By Gary Kim
Carrier Ethernet Training for Service Providers
