AboveNet – Premier Metro Fiber Services
Get the fiber optic connectivity solutions you want with NEF and AboveNet.
AboveNet is a leading resource for connecting businesses and data centers and offers one of the most ubiquitous, flexible networks available. Fulfill your disaster recovery requirements and back up your mission-critical applications and data through their diverse, high speed private fiber optic solutions.
Get dedicated metro fiber connections through Metro Ethernet, a point to point Gigabit Ethernet solution that boasts physical security and scalable bandwidth in a well-designed architecture proven to deliver unparalleled performance.
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AboveNet's secure and scalable Metro Ethernet is a simple and efficient low latency solution. By transparently connecting customer LANS together via dark fiber, it easily and seamlessly provides 24×7 managed Layer 2 CPE for rock solid performance and security. Metro Ethernet uses dedicated network elements for added physical security and protection of customer data.
Features and Benefits
- Private Optical Network, exclusively dedicated metro fiber between customer locations
- Fast deployment for 4800 on-net buildings
- Plug and Play with IEEE Ethernet standard
- Dedicated 1 Gigabit bandwidth
- No congestion from outside sources
- 24×7 Out-of-Band CPE management by AboveNet Global Network Management Center
- Experienced local Project Managers assigned for all phases of turn up
- Single point of accountability
- 100% customer control
- Supports customer VLANs
Applications Supported
- VoIP
- Video
- Rich Media downloads/streaming
- Off-site backups
- Disaster Recovery
- Broadcast Video, Video Conferencing
- Business Continuity
- Collaboration
- CAD/CAM applications
- Financial systems
- Medical digital imaging
- Research, modeling, simulation
The AboveNet Metro Ethernet SLA
- Service Demarcation definition
- Fiber Demarcation definition
- AboveNet CPE Management
- Uptime Service Objective
- Response Time Objective
- Service Credits
- AboveNet will monitor the service using an out-of-band management channel and management router installed at the customer premise.
- AboveNet's NMC is 7×24x365, located in Herndon, Va.
- 2 hour response/ 4 hour MTTR with outage credits applicable for time out of service.
