| Competitive Local Exchange Carrier
A CLEC leverages RCN Metro Optical Networks’ network to enter new markets.
Challenge
A major CLEC was entering new markets in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic and wanted to avoid the cost and hassle of building their own network. They were looking to offer services with a high-degree of reliability and saw that a SONET-based network would allow them to do just that.
Since many of these markets were new to them, they needed the ability to quickly and easily shift capacity away from underperforming markets to areas where they had strong demand.
Additionally, in order to be competitive in the marketplace, they needed to cost-effectively aggregate traffic from multiple cities and transport to their switch sites.
Solution
At the suggestion of RCN Metro Optical Networks, this customer chose SONET as a cost-effective and scalable way of providing service in these markets.
RCN Metro Optical Networks’ SONET Service is offered from DS-3 up to an OC-192 worth of bandwidth. The CLEC can begin with just one DS-3 circuit and scale it when their business needs dictate.
The CLEC orders the local loops out to their end customer location from a service provider. At the central office, RCN Metro Optical Networks aggregates the DS-1 traffic into a larger circuit and backhauls the traffic to the CLEC’s switch site. Between CLEC switches, RCN Metro Optical Networks also provides SONET capacity to transport the traffic. This allows for very cost-effective transport of the customer traffic across the CLEC’s entire network.
Benefits - Diversity – Utilizing our unique ROWs, RCN Metro Optical Networks was able to provide service over a network that was truly diverse from their alternatives
- Cost-Effective – The CLEC leverages the RCN Metro Optical Networks network to serve their clients and avoids costly and lengthy builds
- Scalable – This network will quickly scale in order to continue to meet this customer’s bandwidth requirements
- Carrier Neutral – Because RCN Metro Optical Networks has connections to multiple carriers and most major POPs throughout New England, the CLEC can decide which carrier they want to connect to on a location-by-location basis
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