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What Is It?
Through SONET (Synchronous Optical NETwork) architecture, Verizon offers high-capacity bandwidth users survivability options that are high-powered yet not high-cost. These services—part of Verizon's business solutions—can be tailored to fit your changing requirements for reliability, diversity, and survivability for your special access traffic today and as your business grows.
IntelliLight Broadband Transport (IBT) provides customers with extremely high-bandwidth capacity over shared SONET facilities over either ring or point-to-point constructions. Because IBT does not provide a dedicated self-healing ring or an end-to-end back-up transmission path (like IDSR), it provides a slightly lower degree of survivability than IntelliLight Dedicated SONET Ring (IDSR). However, IBT can also be offered with service assurance to improve circuit availability using automatic restoration and reconfiguration.
What's It For?
Each of Verizon's SONET-based survivability services focuses on a special area of protection—from rerouting traffic in the event of a cable cut, to disaster avoidance and total survivability for your mission-critical services. IBT is for users who need optical interfaces (i.e. OC3, OC3c, OC12, OC12c) but who cannot justify investment in a private network solution. IBT is well suited for users of high-end (greater than OC12) IDSR who need optical off-net extensions. Often this service is used in combination with IDSR to accommodate a customer who has one distant location that needs to be joined to a ring, or one customer location with limited needs.
How It Works
Verizon's SONET-based network backbone survivability is unsurpassed in the industry. That's because the network has been designed from the ground up for disaster avoidance—using dual interconnecting ring-to-ring network topology to ensure network survivability. These services provide protection at significant savings compared to creating and managing a separate backbone network.
How You Benefit
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Protects against a single point of failure |
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Network designed for disaster avoidance |
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Broad availability of survivable services |
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Flexibility to move and/or migrate to higher capacity services and newer technologies |
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Provides high bandwidth to customers without the high cost of investing in a dedicated private network |
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Meets high bandwidth requirements between two or a limited number of specific sites |
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Provides high-speed point-to-point connection in cases where the network topology can't be defined or is subject to change |
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Customized solutions |
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