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RCN Metro Optical Networks is a facilities-based wholesale communications provider, supplying comprehensive end-to-end telecom services to communications companies and enterprise customers in the 12-state Northeast and mid-Atlantic region. RCN Metro Optical Networks provides SONET and DWDM services to a wide range of enterprise accounts and communications carriers including ILECs, CLECs, ISPs, IXCs, and wireless.

RCN Metro Optical Networks takes you where you want to go with complete and affordable end-to-end service. From start to finish, we focus on delivering the highest level of customer service, including speed and ease of provisioning, full service project management, custom designed solutions, 24x7 support and flexible billing options. RCN Metro Optical Networks owns and operates the network as a facilities-based provider of colocation, regeneration and amplifier facilities, not as a services reseller. Major telecommunications providers lease services from RCN Metro Optical Networks, and in turn, resell to their end-users.

Unlike our competitors, our bandwidth extends to cities and towns beyond the “first tier” markets of Boston, New York, and Washington, DC. Our “second tier” markets provide access to such cities as Portland, Portsmouth, Manchester, Springfield, Worcester, Providence, and Hartford.

The RCN Metro Optical Networks network consists of 4,800 route miles (over 230,000 fiber miles) from Portland, Maine to Washington, DC; including connectivity to over 200 POPs (central offices, carrier hotels, IXC POPs, etc.). The RCN Metro Optical Networks rights-of-way include electric utility conduits and public carrier-based facilities, providing geographic diversity throughout the footprint and from other carriers.

RCN Metro Optical Networks uses physically diverse metro rings and redundant equipment in major service areas. The network technology is based on SONET rings at 10 Gbps (OC-192) and DWDM waves at 160 Gbps (16 waves @ 10 Gbps each). The SONET technology provides enterprise customer hand-offs at speeds up to 2.5 Gbps (OC-48) in a diverse ring architecture. DWDM technology supports protected and unprotected wavelengths of 2.5 Gbps and 10 Gbps.

Key RCN Metro Optical Networks Enterprise Solutions

  • SONET Private Line – Physically diverse, looped SONET services at bandwidth levels including DS-3, OC-3, OC-12, OC-48, and OC-192.
  • Wavelength (DWDM) – Flexible and scalable high capacity transport at 2.5 Gbps and 10 Gbps, configured as either protected or unprotected wavelengths.
  • Ethernet – Dedicated service provides point-to-point Ethernet connections at either 50 Mbps or 100 Mbps Fast Ethernet or 600 Mbps and 1000 Mbps Gigabit Ethernet.
  • Custom Private Optical Network Solutions – On your behalf, RCN Metro Optical Networks can design, build, and manage your network. RCN Metro Optical Networks supports multiple protocols such as Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, ATM, as well as storage protocols such as Fibre Channel.
  • Central Office Access – Connections to major carriers throughout the RCN Metro Optical Networks footprint over RCN Metro Optical Networks’ fully protected SONET network.
  • Colocation – Secure, carrier class conditioned, and power ready space, racks, and cabinets strategically located to facilitate high bandwidth connectivity to other POPs, carrier hotels, local switch offices, and numerous service providers.
  • NOC services – Includes monitoring of circuit and node status, alarming when performance falls outside established thresholds, and producing management reports. 
  • Muxing – Aggregate local DS-1 traffic and backhaul it, via DS-3s, to your desired location.

Advantages and Benefits

  • Utilizing the RCN Metro Optical Networks network can enable you to reduce operating expenses
  • Optical management and infrastructure expertise assures that you implement a network that not only meets your needs today but tomorrow as well
  • RCN Metro Optical Networks builds, integrates, and manages optical networks at the carrier level meeting the same level of service provided to the nation’s largest telecommunications companies
  • One point of contact for all network needs
  • Quarterly customer service meetings to review network performance and assure your total satisfaction
  • Our monitoring capabilities allow you to view your own network
  • Ability to upgrade technologies and services as they are introduced into the market without making the capital investment required in the past
  • Monthly budget fixed and managed by you
  • Enterprise customers can focus on their core competencies while RCN Metro Optical Networks focuses on its core competency – designing, building, and maintaining complex networks
  • Our use of electric utility rights-of-ways enables us to offer an unparalleled level of diversity
  • RCN Metro Optical Networks strives for a win/win relationship with its customers

RCN Metro Optical Networks is a regional, facilities-based network services provider in the 12-state Northeast and mid-Atlantic region offering alternative access services including: True Diversity (through unique rights-of-way); SONET Services (DS-3; OC-n); Metro Ethernet (GigE; Fast Ethernet); DWDM; Connections to IXCs/ISPs; Long-haul; Private Networks; Colocation; Custom Applications; Disaster Recovery (Hot Site Connectivity; Remote Storage Connectivity; CO Diversity); Managed Services (NOC Services); and Local Access (3:1 Muxing).