OCTOBER 10, 2006 -- US LEC Corp. has completed construction of its MPLS VPN data network. With the addition of the service to New York City and the surrounding area, US LEC's MPLS VPN service is now available throughout its footprint.
"Today completes the evolution to a next-generation IP-based data network that now covers our entire footprint," said US LEC CEO Aaron Cowell. "The completion of our MPLS VPN network positions US LEC for future growth and enables the company to offer a broader range of integrated services delivered over an IP-based data network throughout the company's footprint."
US LEC MPLS VPN service is targeted at businesses and enables data traffic with differing requirements to co-exist on the same network, such as Internet access, critical business applications such as customer resource management applications, and enterprise-wide or inter-office VoIP calling.
MPLS VPN supports quality of service (QoS) guarantees, allowing US LEC customers to prioritize critical traffic for delivery first. With traffic prioritization, the most important traffic travels over available bandwidth first, with other traffic utilizing remaining bandwidth. As priority traffic decreases, all other traffic uses the available bandwidth. Better bandwidth utilization helps businesses reduce the amount of bandwidth needed, reducing costs and improving a business's ability to use its bandwidth investment effectively.
US LEC believes MPLS VPN offers a considerable improvement over legacy data networking approaches, namely its meshed network architecture. Previous data networking architectures featured a "hub and spoke" design that relied on a central host location to maintain operation for all locations. MPLS VPN is built on a "meshed" architecture that eliminates the need for a central host. Speeds may also be scaled incrementally from fractional T-1 speeds below 1.5 Mbits/sec to DS3 (45 Mbits/sec) to Ethernet local loop at 100 Mbits/sec.
"US LEC's MPLS VPN network architecture and scale offers a considerable advantage to our customers," said Alan Fitzpatrick, US LEC senior vice president of engineering. "A fully meshed, scalable network provides US LEC customers the survivability for business continuity and a data networking service that can grow incrementally as the business grows."
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