| WilTel's
network utilizes advanced optical networking technologies
and next-generation switching and routing systems
to provide enterprises, service providers, government
agencies and media companies with the ideal foundation
for their mission-critical applications. The WilTel?
network enables our operational agility and plays
a key role in our proven track record of customer
satisfaction. And it has made us the recipient of
many of the industry?s most notable awards including:
SUPERQuest Award ? best-built core backbone (1998-2000)
Infovision Award -- public network architecture
(1999)
Networld+Interop Infrastructure Award -- most
innovative backbone network provider (2000)
Atlantic-ACM Wholesale Carrier Report Card --
Top rated carrier three years in a row (2002,
2003, 2004)
Resiliency
From beneath the ground up, WilTel built its
network to provide a high degree of resiliency
and survivability. Our cables are buried deeper
than most networks to reduce the likelihood of
damage from unsuspecting excavators. And many
of our fibers are run through and next to hardened,
decommissioned natural gas pipelines rather than
flexible plastic conduits, providing an additional
layer of protection. Unlike some carriers who
have to manage difficult, error-prone interconnections
between old legacy equipment and newer systems,
WilTel?s network is next-generation across every
element, ensuring better performance and reliability.
The core of our optical network is fully meshed
providing redundancy across all paths and because
our IP backbone is MPLS-enabled, we have the ability
to fast-reroute to avoid congestion and network
outages on that platform. The foresight and engineering
prowess that went into this network was never
more evident than on Sept. 11, 2001, and during
the blackouts of August 2003 when WilTel?s network
performed during both events without a single
outage.
Scalability & Capacity
Built to expand based on demand, WilTel?s network
allows the company to take advantage of future
advances in optical networking. The WilTel? network
was built with a minimum of 96 fibers in every
build, with multiple conduits and optical amplifiers
or regeneration stations every 40 miles along
the network. Utilizing OC-192 transport systems
with dense wavelength division multiplexing, the
WilTel network delivers up to 180 Gbps on a single
fiber system. The WilTel optical network architecture
also enables unheard of provisioning times frames:
as little as 25 days for OC-48 (2.488 Gbps) connections.
Flexibility
WilTel?s network was built as a bridge to the
next century of communications. It was designed
to let you migrate from the legacy technologies
of yesterday to the next-generation protocols
of tomorrow, at the time and place of your choosing.
Our ability to intelligently inter-network IP,
Frame Relay, ATM, and Ethernet means WilTel can
deliver a logical migration path that saves you
from the disruption caused by replacing everything
at once. Our MPLS-enabled IP network will elegantly
interconnect your remote locations to any web-based
application. And our EWAN network will interconnect
your applications across the country as easily
as if they were in the same office. WilTel even
provides colocation and data center space providing
the ultimate flexibility of allowing you to locate
your application directly on the network.
Global Reach
WilTel?s integrated, fiber-optic network provides
local-to-global connectivity, linking more than
100 cities and reaching five continents around
the globe. WilTel has direct access to its network
in more than 700 locations across the country
that extends our network into major markets and
high-bandwidth locations, enabling on-net connectivity
via high-speed private line and Optical Wave services.
Our innovative Extended On-Net access platform
adds an additional 300+ access points for high-bandwidth
(DS-3 and above) on-net services in Tier 2 and
3 markets. Our relationships with more than 40
non-RBOC vendors add 12,000 off-net locations
for ubiquitous coverage.
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