Transparent LAN

In today’s world organizations are more dispersed than ever, but despite this, they need to operate as a united entity. In order to enhance their productivity, these organizations need to be seamlessly interconnected through high-speed, high-bandwidth networks. Traditionally, the level of communication between sites was depended heavily upon the level of bandwidth service providers could provide due to limitations of the Metro Area Network (MAN). The headquarter office may have been connected to the service provider’s CO over fiber, but smaller branch offices typically lack access to fiber and in many cases were connected over a slower speed WAN connection based on frame relay or T1/E1 leased-line services. 

With Actelis’ Carrier Ethernet over Copper™ solutions, service providers can now quickly and cost-effectively deliver high-bandwidth Ethernet services that provide transparent LAN interconnection over their Metro network to any business site served by copper, allowing existing branch and headquarters offices to operate in a completely seamless fashion.
Using Actelis’ ML series of Ethernet Access Devices (EADs), service providers can offer customer to upgrade their bandwidth connectivity from T1/E1 to up to 100 Mbps over copper.

Businesses can leverage inter-office transparent LAN connections to simplify the migration to IP voice and IP video conferencing. The key to successfully deploying a voice and video IP solution is making sure the network can support the bandwidth demand and provide a high Quality of Service (QoS). With Actelis’ Carrier Ethernet over Copper platform, service providers can now deliver fiber-like quality bandwidth and highly reliable Ethernet services over an existing copper network, allowing their customers to realize the benefits of IP voice and video communications. Adding voice and video along with high speed Internet access to the branch offices using IP-VPNs for LAN interconnection provides a comprehensive suite of services to business subscribers.

Ethernet access lowers the cost of the transparent LAN connection for the enterprise by replacing the legacy T1/E1 circuits, which at the same time increases the bandwidth and responsiveness between the branch offices and headquarters LAN and reduces IT costs by reducing the complexity of the WAN connection between office locations. In addition to providing high-speed Internet access and data connectivity to the remote branches, the extra bandwidth provided by the Ethernet over copper lets enterprises deploy broadband applications such as video conferencing and IP telephony to branch offices. Additional IT cost savings are achieved by centralizing key applications such as email, file backup and database replication to gain further operational cost savings.

Advantages
    • New revenue streams using existing infrastructure
    • Seamlessly extends the reach of Enterprise Ethernet access services to 100% of the subscribers in a providers serving area.
      • Can be deployed quickly without the expense or delay of installing a new fiber access network
    • Support for Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) certified switching features ensures compatibility, interoperability and scalability
    • Support for Ethernet virtual circuits provide subscriber isolation and privacy, enabling multiple subscribers to share common equipment at both the access edge and within the CO safely and reliably
    • Superior rate delivers more bandwidth to customers than any copper –based solution available
    • Unsurpassed reach delivers more services to more customers and covers the entire Carrier Serving Area (CSA)
    • Reliability maintains Service Level Agreements (SLA) over fiber or copper media
    • Fiber–like experience enables consistent delivery of Ethernet services over copper media