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Networking:
Allstream Enhances Next Gen.
Converged IP Network Services
Allstream, a leading communication solutions provider with a world-class
portfolio of connectivity, infrastructure management and IT services,
announced a significant enhancement to its Business IP Service: Dynamic Class
of Service.
Allstream's Business IP offering is a national private IP converged network
service that uses Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) to support four
different classes of service and enable priority service to applications that
have performance sensitive requirements.
The new Dynamic Class of Service feature enables customers to converge many
diverse applications over a single network by using the class of service
capabilities to control how the Business IP service handles their traffic.
Customers can consolidate and simplify their infrastructure, thereby
implementing one network to cost effectively meet all of their data networking
needs, while accommodating the varying demands of their business-critical
applications.
With the ease of a single access Permanent Virtual Circuit (PVC), customers
can prioritize IP packets depending on the type of traffic to optimize flow
and business efficiency. Customers can then mark these packets from a Customer
Edge Router (CER) and select from four classes of service:
- Real Time: provides low loss, low latency, low jitter and ensured
bandwidth
for priority traffic.
- Two Data Classes (Bursty High & Bursty Low): offer different levels of
forwarding assurance, according to the services subscribed to, meaning IP
packets are forwarded with high reliability.
- Best Effort: allows for "best effort" forwarding behaviour for non-time
sensitive data transfer.
"Dynamic Class of Service is part of our next generation converged IP
network
services," said Mike Kologinski, executive vice president of marketing at
Allstream. "As data networks become increasingly complex, customers want
simplicity and scalability for their networks. With Dynamic Class of Service,
customers get a single network solution for all of their traffic types, and
achieve increased efficiency, along with the security of a private network.
When launched in 2000, Allstream's Business IP offering was one of the few IP
MPLS services available in Canada. This new enhancement is another example of
Allstream's commitment to service innovation."
Features of the Dynamic Class of Service include:
- One infrastructure, giving customers an efficient, scalable,
high-performance way to incorporate business-critical IP applications into a
secure data network.
- Fast throughput, delivering the throughput and delay characteristics to
realize manageable and predictable performance for mission-critical and
real-time applications.
- Industry standard technology, with MPLS technology that simplifies and
streamlines IP addressing, optimizing customers' data networks without the use
of authentication, encryption or tunneling protocols.
- Enhanced service level agreements provide guaranteed uptime, with 24/7
monitoring.
- Network consolidation, allowing customers to simply and cost-effectively
expand their IP-enabled network by eliminating the need to purchase multiple
Permanent Virtual Circuits at each location.
Allstream's suite of Data Network services includes Business IP, ATM, Frame
Relay, Transparent LAN and Private Line. With a broad range of data network
services, Service Interworking capabilities, IP enabled solutions and national
network infrastructure, Allstream provides customers with customized data
connectivity solutions based on their unique requirements.
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