SBC Communications Inc. has enhanced its Multi-Service Optical Networking (MON) solutions, which enable businesses to connect mainframes, data centers and storage networks within a metropolitan area, with a multipoint option.
SBC MON, which uses dense WDM to enable protocol-independent optical connectivity with bandwidth of up to 160gbps per fiber pair, has been available since 2001 as a dedicated point-to-point network solution.
The enhanced MON service offering works in conjunction with a number of data transport protocols, including ESCON, FICON, ETR, ISC, fibre channel, fast Ethernet, gigabit Ethernet, 10 gigabit Ethernet, SONET and D1 video. The transport protocols are delivered in their native format.
The MON offerings are available throughout the SBC 13-state local service territory. Both the SBC MON services use the Nortel Networks OPTera Metro 5200 5.0 Multi-service Platform release 5.0, a DWDM-based platform enabling the delivery of new services such as business continuity, disaster recovery, video and content networking on a wide scale basis.
