BellSouth is now offering 1,000mbps transport service with Ethernet connectivity for BellSouth customers with OC48 and OC192 SMARTRing and LightGate services to its wholesale customers. Similar BellSouth announcements regarding service availability for retail customers are expected to be made shortly.
In the first quarter this year, BellSouth rolled out two other Ethernet transport products: BellSouth Native Mode LAN Interconnection (NMLI) Gigabit Ethernet Service and BellSouth Wavelength Service using Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) technology.
As the third in a series of BellSouth services providing Ethernet connectivity products rolled out in the last year, 1,000mbps Transport Service over SONET offers customers the configuration ease inherent to Ethernet, according to BellSouth.
The service is provisioned via a SONET multiservice provisioning platform (MSPP). BellSouth at SUPERCOMM this summer announced its intention to use MSPP technology, which maps IP onto SONET, and revealed it had awarded contracts to Lucent Technologies Inc. and Cisco Systems Corp. for such systems.
The Lucent deal is for DMX Access Multiplexers for use in interoffice networks and end customer high bandwidth ring applications. This summer BellSouth said the mux was slated to be deployed for high-bandwidth loop applications later this year.
BellSouth also this summer announced plans to use Cisco’s ONS 15454 MSPP. Specifically, BellSouth is working with Cisco to do Layer 2 interworking with frame relay on one end and ATM on the other.
