Verizon Business announced today the availability of its Integrated Optical Service, which is the first dedicated optical network service integrating DWDM, SONET and Ethernet on a single ring offered by a U.S.-based Tier One provider. This allows big-bandwidth customers to run multiple protocols over the same platform. The service is available immediately in the carrier’s ILEC territories to large enterprise customers and, through Verizon Partner Solutions, wholesale customers.
Dedicated Integrated Optical Service networks are built to customer order using the Tellabs 7100 Optical Transport System (OTS), which includes a ROADM with SONET ADMs and Ethernet as cards in a single platform, said Micheal DiVecchia, Verizon Business’s group manager for optical product management. In contrast, he said existing networks require two separate rings with SONET ADMs and Ethernet switch on top of a DWDM system. The platform provides up to 440gbps capacity with 10gbps waves. TDM interfaces are available from DS1 to OC192. Ethernet interfaces include 10/100mbps, gigE (and subrate gigE), 10gigE LAN PHY and 10gigE WAN PHY. Storage (Fibrechannel) and digital video (SDI) interfaces also are supported.
Integrated Optical Service is offered with 24/7 monitoring, five 9s SLA and 2.5-hour mean time to repair. Customers can monitor network health and access reports through a Customer Service Management tool on the Verizon Business Customer Center Web portal.
DiVecchia said Integrated Optical Service is designed for customers with existing or near-term bandwidth requirements of OC48 and greater. It replaces the company’s current Dedicated Wave Ring (DWR) product, which is based on DWDM. For bandwidth requirements less than OC48, Verizon Business still offers its Dedicated SONET Ring (DSR) service.
Pricing is based on three rate elements – the node at the customer premises, mileage between nodes and appearances (the ports on and off the ring). Integrated Optical Service is slightly less expensive than a simple DWR and 25 percent to 30 percent less expensive than a more complex DWR with many nodes, mileage and SONET overlays, DiVecchis said.
The new service is available in 26 states, including major metro areas like New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Tampa, Fla., Dallas-Ft. Worth, Los Angeles and Seattle.
The company is targeting Integrated Optical Service for customers in the financial, health care, government and education sectors that have large bandwidth requirements within a metro area, manage mission-critical applications or require business continuity and disaster recovery.
In addition, the service can connect to Verizon Business’ Ultra Long Haul network for transport between regional and remote backup data centers for asynchronous data replication. Finally, the service also allows for secure access to many other Verizon services and solutions, such as Private IP (our MPLS network), and the public Internet.
Verizon Business www.verizonbusiness.com
Tellabs Inc. www.tellabs.com
