Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)

Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) is a family of technologies that provides digital data transmission over the wires of a local telephone network. DSL originally stood for digital subscriber loop. In telecommunications marketing, the term Digital Subscriber Line is widely understood to mean Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL), the most commonly installed technical varieties of DSL. DSL service can be delivered as a stand alone product or simultaneously with regular telephone on the same telephone line as it uses a higher frequency band that is separated by filtering.

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Fiber Optic Internet

Fiber optic communication is a method of transmitting information from one place to another by sending pulses of light through an optical fiber. The light forms an electromagnetic carrier wave that is modulated to carry information.

With upload and download speeds of up to 1000 Mbps, fiber optic internet can improve the performance and efficiency of your apps and operations, especially cloud-based functions like data storage and backup.

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Cable Broadband

Cable Broadband is a high speed internet service that runs over the existing cable TV infrastructure. It is many times faster than dial up access and typically offers higher speeds than DSL. Pricing tends to be the same as like speed DSL or other shared high speed internet services.

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Dedicated Internet Access (DIA)

Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) is connectivity from a user’s location to the Internet. DIA is comprised of two separate components: the local loop and the DIA port. The local loop is the physical connectivity from the user’s location to their DIA provider’s Point of Presence (POP). The local loop can either be ordered through the DIA provider, or through an alternate carrier of the user’s choosing as user provided access. The DIA port acts as the mechanism that allows for Internet access and is typically not oversubscribed.

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MPLS

MPLS is a highly scalable, protocol agnostic, data-carrying mechanism.

In an MPLS network, data packets are assigned labels. Packet-forwarding decisions are made solely on the contents of this label, without the need to examine the packet itself. This allows one to create end-to-end circuits across any type of transport medium, using any protocol. The primary benefit is to eliminate dependence on a particular data link layer technology, such as ATM, frame relay, SONET or Ethernet, and eliminate the need for multiple Layer 2 networks to satisfy different types of traffic. MPLS belongs to the family of packet-switched networks.

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Ethernet Private Line (EPL)

Ethernet Private Line (EPL) is a data service providing a point-to-point Ethernet connection between a pair of dedicated User-Network Interfaces (UNIs), with a high degree of transparency. EPL is implemented as a point-to-point Ethernet Virtual Connection (EVC) which, unlike Ethernet Virtual Private Line (EVPL), does not allow for Service Multiplexing, i.e., a dedicated UNI (physical interface) is used to accept all service frames and map them to a single EVC.

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Frame Relay Service (FRS)

Frame Relay is a telecommunication service designed for cost-efficient data transmission for intermittent traffic between Local Area Networks (LANs) and between end-points in a Wide Area Network (WAN).

Frame relay puts data in a variable-size unit called a frame and leaves any necessary error correction (retransmission of data) up to the end-points, which speeds up overall data transmission. For most services, the network provides a Permanent Virtual Circuit (PVC), which means that the customer sees a continuous, dedicated connection without having to pay for a full-time leased line, while the service provider figures out the route each frame travels to its destination and can charge based on usage. An enterprise can select a level of service quality – prioritizing some frames and making others less important.

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Metro Optical Ethernet (MOE)

Metro Optical Ethernet (MOE) service combines the power of Ethernet and optical technologies across metropolitan area networks (MANs) to provide low cost, scalable and secure bandwidth. MOE provides local area network (LAN)-to-LAN connectivity between two or more user locations within a metro area. MOE is based on distributed Layer 2 switching and shared transport data bandwidth, and is suitable for data applications.

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Point to Point (PTP)

Point to Point circuits, also known as Private Lines, are circuits that are utilized for connectivity between two locations. Users can utilize this technology to connect host and remote locations to create a secure dedicated WAN instead of using a service like Frame Relay, ATM, MPLS or other IP VPNs.

This allows the user to maintain control of their connectivity with the ability to move to a different provider POP if necessary.

Each point to point circuit is distance sensitive, meaning that the price for the circuit will be dependant on the mileage between the two locations that are to be connected.

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Virtual Private Network (VPN)

A virtual private network (VPN) links two computers through an underlying local or wide-area network, while encapsulating the data and keeping it private. It is analogous to a pipe within a pipe. Even though the outer pipe contains the inner one, the inner pipe has a wall that blocks other traffic in the outer pipe. To the rest of the network, the VPN traffic just looks like another traffic stream. The term VPN can describe many different network configurations and protocols.

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Wavelength Services

(May be associated with Wave Division Multiplex, WDM)

Wavelength Services are dedicated, protected wavelengths from a service provider for the exclusive use of a customer. Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) is service or the sale of discrete wavelengths on a fiber transport facility. WDM transmits multiple wavelengths over a single optical fiber, each data signal using its own wavelength (color band). Wavelength services often are protocol independent.

Wavelength-division Multiplexing (WDM) is a scheme for transmitting two or more separate signals over a single fiber optic cable by using a separate wavelength (color) for each signal.

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