Secure, reliable Ethernet solutions for your long-haul domestic networking needs.
Lightyear Domestic Ethernet Private Line (EPL) provides large bandwidth solutions designed to meet your critical business application needs. EPL combines the convenience of Ethernet connectivity with the unparalleled performance of Private Line, resulting in secure and reliable transport of your Ethernet traffic. An EPL solution essentially extends your LAN environment across the Lightyear backbone to network with remote locations, enhancing your comprehensive communications capabilities. Lightyear EPL combines the resiliency of our Next Generation Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) with the ease and convenience of standard Ethernet interfaces, providing you with secure connectivity that you can depend on from a provider with the experience and commitment to service you can trust.
Benefits for You
- Availability – Lightyear offers service to most major metropolitan markets across the U.S.
- Convenience – Domestic Ethernet Private Line provides the convenience of Ethernet combined with the reliable performance of SONET.
- Value – Lightyear does not oversubscribe the EPL service, so you get all the dedicated* bandwidth that you pay for. With Ethernet interfaces, equipment costs are less and management is easier than comparable SONET interfaces.
- Competitively Priced – EPL is priced based upon mileage and your specific bandwidth needs.
- Expertise – Lightyear has years of experience designing and delivering technical solutions to meet your business needs. Lightyear’s process provides essential proficiency in building private networks.
Why Lightyear?
- Confidence – Secure, fully dedicated non-switched transport of Ethernet traffic.
- Performance – Consistent service quality, low latency, high availability, full line rate over a superior network, supported by an SLA with 99.999% availability objective.
- Simplicity – Point-to-point connections with standard interfaces.
- Versatile – EPL supports almost any application including: data, video, voice and Internet.
- Attention to Service – Lightyear is committed to providing excellent customer support. Let us take care of all the details.
- Future Proofing – EPL can help minimize costly upgrades by utilizing standard interfaces to meet changing bandwidth needs.
How to Get Started
If high-speed transmission and secure connectivity are critical to your business, Lightyear Domestic Ethernet Private Line can provide a complete, flexible and cost-effective solution. For more information, contact a Lightyear Sales Representative.
*“Dedicated” applies to EPL. Ethernet Local Access (ELA) may or may not be shared depending upon the service option the customer selects.
Lightyear E-Line
A simple, powerful Ethernet Private Line service designed to increase operational efficiency and improve ROI
Looking to get more from your network at lower cost? Need simplicity? Lightyear E-Line service gives you just that—enabling increased efficiency and improved return as compared to SONET or DWDM private line technologies to help drive success for your business. Get a state-of-the-art private line solution, tuned to your requirements, to aggressively compete in your business, today and tomorrow!
How do we do it?
E-Line uses Ethernet over MPLS over a non-oversubscribed DWDM network that combines the benefits of intelligent routing with the advantages of 100 percent committed bandwidth. We can easily scale to your applications and budget to suit your needs. Here’s how:
- High-performance—with dedicated bandwidth and fast response times
- Simple—to configure, operate, manage, and change
- Flexible and Scalable—your choice of bandwidth from 5 Mbps to 1000 Mbps
- ROI—efficiency at lower cost compared to other private line technologies
- Faster delivery—with extensive pre-provisioning of network resources
- Standards compliant—IEEE & ITU standards compliant
- Full support—from Lightyear’s project implementation and account teams
What applications run better with E-Line?
E-Line is ideally suited for point–to–point connections to data centers, storage-area networking applications including disaster recovery and business continuity. Multiplexing (multiple virtual circuits per port from one location routed to other E-Line locations) feature is on the roadmap and will offer hub-and-spoke multi-site connections within or between any E-Line markets.
E-Line is currently offered in 16 markets nationwide including New York City, Newark, Boston, Washington, DC, Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles, Sunnyvale, CA, Houston, Dallas, Atlanta, Tampa, Denver, Phoenix, Indianapolis, and Kansas City.
Benefits of E-Line
- Supports applications for long-haul and metro networking
- Granular bandwidth from 5 Mbps to 1Gigabit Ethernet
- Rapid provisioning
- Optimal routing resulting in low latency leveraging E-Line’s Ethernet over MPLS over DWDM network
- Protected or unprotected service applications
- Multiplexing—point-to-multipoint in hub and spoke configuration—on the product release road map
How to Get Started
If increased network efficiency is critical to your business, Lightyear E-Line Service can provide a cost-effective solution. For more information, contact your Lightyear Sales Representative.
