FiberLight selects MRV Carrier Ethernet systems for Ethernet services expansion
AUGUST 6, 2010 -- MRV Communications, Inc. has announced that FiberLight LLC, a provider of fiber-optic network services, has selected its OptiSwitch Carrier Ethernet access platforms as the foundation for its Carrier Ethernet fiber-optic access network. The network delivers optical wholesale and business Ethernet services to customers in 20 metropolitan areas in the U.S.
FiberLight added the MRV metro Ethernet equipment to its optical network to provide the capacity and flexibility demanded by large enterprise and government agency customers, the systems provider says. FiberLight worked with MRV to install OptiSwitch 900 (OS 900) Ethernet demarcation service units and OptiSwitch 9000 (OS 9000) metro Ethernet aggregation service units to enhance its LightSource Ethernet service offerings.
The new networks allow FiberLight customers to dynamically control their bandwidth without a long lead-time and through their own network management capabilities, MRV says. Using the OS900 at the demarcation point for wholesale and business Ethernet services, FiberLight is also able to support end-to-end Ethernet service visibility, service-level agreement (SLA) monitoring, and Ethernet virtual circuit loopbacks for non-intrusive fault analysis, the company adds.
Based in Atlanta, FiberLight operates fiber-optic networks in 20 markets for a diverse customer base that includes local and long-distance telecommunications carriers, Internet service providers, municipalities, utilities, Fortune 500 enterprises, school systems, and local, city, and federal government entities. FiberLight also offers "LightSource," dark and lit fiber capacity for customers who have unique bandwidth requirements.
“The future of broadband technology is all about convergence, with the data side and the optical transport side colliding out of necessity. Companies are now realizing the savings value of migrating from legacy copper-based networks to fiber networks because companies can increase the bandwidth substantially without increasing the overall cost,” said Ben Edmond, FiberLight’s EVP of sales and marketing. “MRV’s equipment is designed to offer optical transport technology that meets our mission critical, high performance focus, delivering low latency and optimal performance management tools to add value to our clients by enabling a higher level of SLAs and quality of service.”
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