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What Is It?
IntelliLight Dedicated SONET Ring (IDSR) is a customized self-healing SONET ring, configured by Verizon to meet the customer's specific requirements for bandwidth, traffic patterns, service locations and anticipated growth. IDSR is a dedicated, high-capacity, private transport network, interconnecting multiple customer locations within the Verizon network. Because it is a self-healing ring solely dedicated to the transfer of a customer's traffic, it provides the customer with the highest possible level of survivability in the event of a facility or SONET-based equipment failure.
What's It For?
IDSR provides customers with reliable communications within a community of interest:
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Highest degree of survivability and protection for high bandwidth between multiple sites |
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High bandwidth between multiple locations, having typically more than one DS3 or equivalent service |
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Secure transmission of data, voice or video applications that are highly mission-critical |
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Can be combined with IntelliLight Broadband Transport (IBT–see Shared SONET) for off-ring access |
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Can be combined with ATM, Frame Relay, ISDN-PRI and high-cap services such as DS1 and DS3. |
How It Works
Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs) and Inter-exchange Carriers (IXCs) offer private bandwidth using high-speed infrastructure rings as a backbone (as a private network). With IDSR, only the user's data runs through the network; excessive service order activity is minimized, so there is no threat to survivability or security. This distinction is significant, because Verizon's competitors routinely offer private bandwith solutions as the equal in survivability to IDSR.
IDSR is a stand-alone service. The user acquires a private SONET ring that offers end-to-end connectivity and the highest degree of survivability. Where SONET fiber and equipment does not already exist and is not planned, special construction charges may apply.
Benefits
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Is individually designed to be a self-healing service, based upon the customer's exact specifications |
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Ensures the highest level of survivability, reliability and diversity without having to construct a separate network |
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As a private, dedicated network, transports only one customer's data, voice or video |
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Can allot bandwidth as needed, from DS1 and higher |
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Allows for the use of multiple Inter-exchange carriers |
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