Ethernet Wholesale

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Generate new revenue and extend carrier-grade Ethernet services to off-net locations with fully-assured, QoS-optimized EVCs. Learn how to effectively establish E-NNI handoffs and reach remote customer sites with complete control and visibility.


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To efficiently offer Ethernet service over national footprints, providers need access to affordable Ethernet wholesale. There are two opportunities emerging: offering Ethernet wholesale service to other providers, and using Ethernet wholesale to expand service to off-net locations. How hand-offs are handled has a big impact on quality of service, interconnection simplicity, and end-to-end management. And to make sure everyone gets what they pay for, SLAs are central to wholesale: providers need assurance when using your service, and you need the same when committing to customers’ end-to-end performance demands.

All this means wholesale applications need standards-based, low-delay hand-offs between networks. QoS needs to be established, maintained and monitored to meet strict SLAs. And providers need on-net visibility for off-net locations to enable and assure end-to-end performance.

Now you can introduce Ethernet wholesale into existing networks by deploying Accedian Networks EtherNID ^®, MetroNID ^® and MetroNODE 10GE™ units as Ethernet Network to Network Interface Units (E-NNIU) and customer-located Demarcation Devices. These cost-efficient, hardware-based units provide continuous Ethernet & IP performance monitoring, Ethernet OAM, and high performance MEF service mapping and traffic shaping functionality at a fraction of the cost of a typical switch. With the ability to handle up to 100s of flows per unit, you can deliver fully assured Ethernet services over existing networks, and even maintain performance of full mesh and multicast applications to off-net locations.

By using demarcation devices and NNIUs as a uniform service delivery point to connect to carriers and customers, you can simplify deployment and manage all of your services from a common platform. Accedian’s SLA and Performance Monitoring System collects statistics in real-time from all hand-off points to provide end-to-end visibility and web-based reporting – proving to your customers that SLAs are being honored.