Next Generation Ethernet Access

1Mb/s to 1Gb/s Connectivity Options

Connect your site(s) to the next generation (NGN) national backbone and benefit from high capacity, high stability, simple network connections.

With over 800 NGN access points in the UK alone this is one of the most accessible networks and more of your sites can plug directly into the central backbone locally thus keeping your costs down.

Highlights

• MPLS Network Core for Quality of Service
• >99.97% Uptime with Resilient Connections
• <10ms one way latency & <3ms jitter for Voice and Video
• Scalable Architecture for Investment Protection
• Cost effective - can offer significant savings over leased lines

With 2Mb/s Leased Line equivalent services from only £299 per month (1:1 Direct Internet Access) and 10Mb/s circuits from only £549 per month the new network represents great value for money and could save your company thousands of pounds per annum versus the older generation Leased Lines.

Browse our solutions and see why Ethernet Connect really is the
"next generation".

*Performance figures are based on premium service(s) with resilient diverse connections and are minimum targets.

Ethernet Connect - Overview

Connect to the Core

Connect your site(s) to the next generation national backbone at one of the 800+ (and growing) NGN enabled network nodes via...

• Copper* (up to 10Mb/s max.)
• Microwave+ (up to 100Mb/s max.)
• Fibre (10Mb/s, 100Mb/s & 1Gb/s)

Once connected to the core network then  'virtual' circuits can be created from the site across the network to your desired destinations which could include Internet Access / Transit.

Even if your site is not on one of the NGN exchanges yet, the fibre connections can still be used providing you have fibre capability at your site and you are within 25Km of an enabled exchange.

*Copper access is delivered by EFM (Ethernet in the First Mile), speed is subject to distance and is only available if your site is directly connected to an active exchange. This product replaces SDSL access.
+Microwave connections to the network are available in select locations where traditional access is not possible.

Ethernet Connect - Internet Access

High speed Internet Access

You have your site connection to the backbone at say 100Mb/s fibre so now you could choose to have a 'virtual' circuit through the network at for example 10Mb/s standard service to our Internet Access point.

This would now provide you with upto 10Mb/s symmetric Internet access for your site and you can increase your speed in as little as 24 hours up to the maximum of your physical circuit.

Connectivity choices

• Standard Access (up to 5:1 Contention)
• Premium Access (Uncontended, Guaranteed SLA)

IP transit is provided via the IC resilient ring network with multiple Tier 1 carriers for International IP transit. The carriers and networks have been specially selected to have sufficiently different networks and transmission structures so to avoid common points of failure.

IC directly connects within the UK to a long list of major carriers and other ISP's / Content providers (i.e. BBC, Sky, Microsoft, Janet etc...) via peering arrangements to ensure that UK data exchange is fast and with the least hops to keep latency at a minimum. All this infrastructure and diversity ensures that you get Intra UK Transit of 40ms or less, Europe in <50ms and Transatlantic (New York) <90ms with a Packet Loss of <0.1%

Ethernet Connect - Inter/Multi site

Point-to-Point, Hub & Spoke or Mesh Connectivity

Just as you can create a 'virtual' circuit for Internet Access you could create a circuit to another connected site (remote office).

You choose the desired capacity between the sites required (up to the maximum physical circuit) and the networks will become joined at layer 2 (just like linking 2 switches together with an Ethernet cable).

Connectivity choices

• Standard Access (5:1 Contention)
• Premium Access (Uncontended)
• Scalable Bandwidth 1Mb/s - 1Gb/s

Because you have a single connection to the network at local reach the costs are kept low for very high capacity, then you buy what you need in central network capacity to whichever sites you require and can scale this up quickly.

Example: You could have several sites connected together, sharing files and network resources. Your telephony could also be linked over all the sites (VoIP based telephony systems) and you could have a consolidated network infrastructure. Then you could add Internet Access to the network centrally for security / monitoring and to finish off perhaps a centralised 'virtual' server from a connected datacentre.