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Providing End-to-End Bandwidth Services and Solutions
CAPABILITY
Put your networking needs in the reliable hands of one of the most technically capable carriers.
RCN Metro Optical Networks Encompasses a Full Spectrum of Network Capabilities.
In today’s information-driven world, the demand for high-capacity bandwidth continues to grow exponentially. Businesses demand swift movement of vital information among multiple operations centers. Consumers expect instant response and trouble-free continuity of service.
RCN Metro Optical Networks is unique among facilities-based bandwidth providers for our diverse network in one of the most valuable telecommunications markets in the world. Our dense build network, with more than 200 Points of Presence (POPs), provides customers quick, cost-effective, and comprehensive connectivity to critical communications facilities and enterprise locations throughout our footprint.
That’s why wireless carriers, long distance carriers, enterprise customers, competitive local exchange companies (CLECs), Internet service providers (ISPs), and cable television operators choose RCN Metro Optical Networks.
The RCN Metro Optical Networks' Network: A Well-Traveled Route.
RCN Metro Optical Networks has been deploying its network since 1994 throughout the nation’s busiest telecommunications corridor more quickly, easily, and cost-effectively than our competition. The 12-state, $300-billion market encompasses 25 percent of the nation’s communications market and extends from New England, New York City, and the north Atlantic coast to Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, DC, and into Virginia.
Our customers leverage the RCN Metro Optical Networks' network to reacRCN Metro Optical Networksh more than 500,000 businesses and 18 million households in the dense Northeast and mid-Atlantic market.
Our high-capacity Synchronous Optical Network (SONET), over geographically diverse fiber routes, provides a cost-effective, fully redundant bandwidth solution for our customers. Coupled with our proven and innovative Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) services, RCN Metro Optical Networks provides unparalleled capacity coursing through the densest telecommunications market in the world. And, since RCN Metro Optical Networks facilities are located in secure, unique rights-of-way, we offer the utmost in system integrity, while providing carriers and enterprise customers with hassle-free routes to virtually any building.
Our capability to respond to customer needs for end-to-end communications solutions and to take them where they need to go provides us a decided edge in winning new business partnerships.
The Power Of Metro Access.
Through partner agreements and acquisitions, RCN Metro Optical Networks has gained unsurpassed access and reach in the extremely valuable metropolitan markets we serve. Companies that partner with us can be confident of our strength within the industry, our commitment to our customers, our expertise across the spectrum of broadband services, and our extraordinary market reach and access.
AVAILABILITY
With more POPs, RCN Metro Optical Networks can meet your expanding growth needs with a wide range of evolving services.
Our network is continually evolving to meet the demand for bandwidth.
At RCN Metro Optical Networks, we recognize the urgency of delivering comprehensive, reliable, and cost-effective end-to-end communications solutions in a timely manner. After all, most businesses today consider their communications network indispensable to their very survival. Our extensive network reach and connectivity is available today throughout our footprint. And, the RCN Metro Optical Networks team is available now to meet your needs.
Lighting The Way.
Our carrier partners know they can rely on RCN Metro Optical Networks to meet their customers’ extremely time-sensitive demands. Our network is built with available capacity at all bandwidth levels from DS-3s to OC-192s with SONET, 2.5 and 10 gigabits per second speeds with our innovative wavelength services, 50 and 100 megabits per second speeds with our Fast Ethernet services, and 600 and 1000 megabits per second with our Gigabit Ethernet services.
In addition to having a large degree of circuits already in place, the RCN Metro Optical Networks network comprises a unique and highly desirable footprint. By locating our network strategically, we cover areas that are otherwise unavailable, providing true diversity to our customers. We have service where our competitors can’t go, places that are critical for delivering seamless network connectivity.
In the future, we will continue this capillary expansion, offering a dimension of density unique to the industry. This increases RCN Metro Optical Networks’ leadership role as the bandwidth provider of choice within our footprint and to those who need to reach this market.
We are prepared today for tomorrow. For example, our high-bandwidth network provides scalable capacity to meet future transport and connectivity requirements, and to transparently support ever-evolving transmission standards for Internet, voice, video, and data services. Our wavelength services, mean our carriers can satisfy the most comprehensive customer network requirements at the speed of light.
Access That Shines Beyond The Competition.
A regional provider, RCN Metro Optical Networks offers its customers unsurpassed global access. Specifically, our interstate, intercity, and local loop facilities comprise a network of approximately 4,800 route miles and more than 230,000 fiber miles. In addition, we provide connectivity to more than 200 POPs, including Central Offices (COs) and carrier hotels—with many more to follow.
Instant access to the RCN Metro Optical Networks network is instant access to the world.
FLEXIBILITY
RCN Metro Optical Networks can provide you with a customized array of flexible services to meet your specific bandwidth needs. The full spectrum of service is within your reach. RCN Metro Optical Networks offers a comprehensive range of communications products and services, including:
SONET Private Line Service. Our SONET Private Line Service provides both long-haul and metro SONET private line connectivity to our multi-POP network. RCN Metro Optical Networks network architecture is designed to provide the highest level of protection and survivability by deploying proven geographically diverse, four-fiber, rings. Bandwidth levels available include DS-3, OC-3, OC-12, OC-48, and OC-192.
SONET Virtual Private Network Service. Our SONET VPN Service provides an OC-48 or OC-12 virtual SONET ring connecting a predetermined set of locations. Once the service is established, any combination of DS-3s through OC-12s can be quickly added between locations up to the total capacity of the network.
Central Office Access Service. RCN Metro Optical Networks’ Central Office (CO) Access Service provides wholesale, high bandwidth SONET private line connectivity to key Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier (ILEC) COs for carriers and service providers serving the enterprise market. Carriers can connect to RCN Metro Optical Networks from their colocation within the CO or order ILEC services directly to the RCN Metro Optical Networks presence in the CO at the DS-3 level and above for virtual colocation.
Ethernet Private Line Service. RCN Metro Optical Networks’ Ethernet Service provides point-to-point Ethernet connectivity at 50 Mbps and 100 Mbps Fast Ethernet or 600 Mbps and 1000 Mbps Gigabit Ethernet at any of the RCN Metro Optical Networks colocation facilities. This carrier class service is ideal for those customers with mission critical connectivity needs who have Ethernet network interfaces but need the reliability of SONET.
Custom Private Optical Network Solutions. RCN Metro Optical Networks can offer carriers and enterprise customers an innovative way to get the specific optical networking solutions needed to achieve their objectives by designing, building, and managing a cost-effective private network for them.
Colocation Service. Combined with our multi-POP network coverage, RCN Metro Optical Networks' colocation facilities provide immediate high bandwidth connectivity to other locations such as ILEC COs, carrier POPs, and enterprise facilities.
Wavelength Service. Our 2.5 and 10 Gbps Wavelength Service provides a flexible and scalable high-capacity transport solution with the benefits of competitive costs, improved speed-to-market, and enhanced network control compared to capital intensive and resource intensive dark fiber builds.
Network Operation Center Service. RCN Metro Optical Networks’ Network Operation Center Service provides clients with 24x7 network monitoring and associated technical services utilizing RCN Metro Optical Networks’ state-of-the-art Network Operation Center (NOC).
Dark Fiber Service. RCN Metro Optical Networks can serve as an end-to-end eastern seaboard provider. RCN Metro Optical Networks offers geographic diversity, expansive coverage, and 24x7 maintenance support.
Technology That Delivers.
The core benefits of our technology are based on the inherent properties of optical fiber itself. With greater tensile strength than copper or steel fibers of equal diameter, optical fiber has an information-transmitting capacity that’s essentially infinite. Our fiber can support speeds of hundreds of gigabits per second—as well as carry numerous gigabit channels simultaneously.
The proven reliability of the RCN Metro Optical Networks network is the result of our “self-healing” SONET ring architecture, including an OC-192 platform leveraging proven technology from industry leading equipment manufacturers. By utilizing a geographically diverse ring topology, our network ensures a high degree of flexibility and redundancy.
The RCN Metro Optical Networks network also utilizes DWDM technology. DWDM provides RCN Metro Optical Networks’ customers with high-capacity transport, geographic diversity, and unsurpassed resilience. The result—a network that delivers greater system security and virtually uninterrupted uptime.
RELIABILITY
RCN Metro Optical Networks provides end-to-end communications solutions for the future.
Every day, hundreds of businesses and thousands of consumers located throughout Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington DC, and a multitude of other cities and towns, use the RCN Metro Optical Networks network to dependably place phone calls, access the Internet, and transfer data.
The RCN Metro Optical Networks network is designed to provide the highest level of protection and survivability by deploying proven geographically distinct, four-fiber, SONET equipment and designs. We deploy time tested and proven carrier-class technology along unique and reliable rights-of-way, integrated with diverse building entries wherever possible. Consequently, we provide our customers master service agreements with service level agreements that guarantee up to 99.999% reliability where warranted and required. We have major network operations and service centers strategically located along our network to facilitate fast and efficient network servicing.
Our network is designed to provide easy, cost-effective, and scalable bandwidth to help our customers stay ahead of changing connectivity requirements. For example, our regional OC-192 SONET ring architecture offers the utmost in overall system flexibility, with multiple optical add/drops along the network paths.
Our goal is to continually increase bandwidth capacity, enhance technological capabilities, and expand route diversity for near-ubiquitous coverage. With our wavelength, SONET, and Ethernet services, we're ready now to reliably meet current and future bandwidth needs.
RCN Metro Optical Networks At A Glance.- Our comprehensive connectivity solutions, comprised of interstate, intercity, and local loop facilities, are located in the $300-billion, 12-state Northeast and mid-Atlantic communications market.
- Our ever-expanding high technology oriented service area currently covers 25 percent of the nation's communications market.
- Our diverse network consists of approximately 4,800 route miles and over 230,000 fiber miles.
- We provide connectivity to over 200 POPs.
- We are geographically located close to our customers for fast, reliable service.
- We have an experienced customer support team in place, RCN Metro Optical Networks' NOC which operates 24x7 with guaranteed response times.
- Our system is constantly monitored to alert us to any degradation of signal or loss of fiber capacity, thereby enabling us to easily pinpoint “trouble spots” and maintain a service reliability factor of 99.999%.
- We’ll use our comprehensive range of communications products and services to develop programs that meet your needs today and in the future.
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