‘Metropolitan Continuity Service’ launched by Lightpath

Lightpath, the business telecommunications services division of Cablevision Systems Corporation, has introduced its new ‘Metropolitan Continuity Service’, a premium optical bypass private line service that is specifically designed to increase network availability by bypassing New York City. It is optimised for enterprise customers wishing to mitigate business continuity threats and for providers of enterprise data storage, business continuity and disaster recovery solutions. This service employs the Optical Long Haul (LH) 1600 and Optical Metro 5200 platforms from Nortel to transport Ethernet and 2.5G/10G wavelength-based services in a wide area ring architecture over a long distance - connecting Long Island, Westchester and New Jersey - with high reliability and performance.

"With new regulatory and compliance-based requirements that are driving business continuity efforts in such industries as financial services, Lightpath recognised the overwhelming need to provide customers with an innovative option to avoid service interruptions," said Brian Fabiano, senior vice president of Network Services for Lightpath. "As a result, Lightpath constructed a fully diverse network path from Long Island to New Jersey that ensures availability for customers' critical business applications by circumventing typical New York City locations that represent significant single points of failure in most carriers' networks."

This one-of-a-kind business continuity network was built by Lightpath with the goal of bypassing the New York fibre corridor's large, traditional switching centres in Manhattan. The Lightpath Metropolitan Continuity Service network provides stable and resilient end-to-end connectivity from Bethpage, NY to Parsippany, NJ, crossing under Long Island Sound from Roslyn to Mamaroneck and crossing the Hudson River approximately 70 miles north of New York City.

Nortel's Optical LH 1600 wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) equipment was selected by Lightpath to deliver approximately 720 gigabits per second (10 Gbps x 72 wavelengths) of capacity on a single fibre pair for its new Metropolitan Continuity Service. This network will inter-connect to multiple regional rings via Nortel's Optical Metro 5200. The resulting network infrastructure delivers extreme reliability and performance for mission critical data and voice transport services.

"Lightpath's new Metropolitan Continuity Service clearly differentiates it from every other service provider in the highly competitive New York telecommunications market," said Dan Mondor, general manager, Global Cable Solutions for Nortel. "Using Nortel's converged optical transport solutions to deliver high bandwidth services, such as business continuity, disaster recovery, data centre backup and Ethernet connectivity, Lightpath is addressing the growing demand from enterprise businesses to establish geographically remote backup data centres as part of their business continuity and disaster recovery plans."

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•Date: 4th May 2005 • Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: Telecoms continuity
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