The Metro Ethernet Value Proposition
February 1, 2010
Nashville, TN
Until recently, a company's last resource for high speed bandwidth was a DS-3 or OC-3 circuit. A DS-3 was typically priced between $2500 and $3500 per month. OC-3's were typically in excess of $5000 per month.
Metro Ethernet was introduced to fill the void between a T1 (DS1) circuit and a T3 (DS3). It is usually deployed via fiber, although it can incorporate multiple pairs of copper. The benefits are many.
1) Price - A 10Mbps Metro Ethernet can be found for as little as $1600 per month. It would take 7 T1 circuits to build up to a T1 circuit at a cost of well over $2,000 not to mention complex hardware and engineering.
2) Simplicity - Metro Ethernet is handed to you, the customer, as a 100 base T interface. Many customers plug their firewalls directly into the delivered circuit with no intermediate router required.
3) Scalability - Once fiber is delivered to your premise, it can scale to your needs. From 10Mbps to Gigabit speeds, it's the last physical connection that your business will require.
4) Multiple services - With excess capacity, comes extra capability. Customers soon realize that they can bring their SIP telephone trunks in across their data connection. The allows for additional economies of scale offered with VOIP and VOIP-based phone systems.
Butler Networks offers Metro Ethernet in all flavors mentioned above including providing MPLS based rings to connect multiple office sites together.
Butler Networks
sales@butler.net
615-369-7070 x3
February 1, 2010
Nashville, TN
Until recently, a company's last resource for high speed bandwidth was a DS-3 or OC-3 circuit. A DS-3 was typically priced between $2500 and $3500 per month. OC-3's were typically in excess of $5000 per month.
Metro Ethernet was introduced to fill the void between a T1 (DS1) circuit and a T3 (DS3). It is usually deployed via fiber, although it can incorporate multiple pairs of copper. The benefits are many.
1) Price - A 10Mbps Metro Ethernet can be found for as little as $1600 per month. It would take 7 T1 circuits to build up to a T1 circuit at a cost of well over $2,000 not to mention complex hardware and engineering.
2) Simplicity - Metro Ethernet is handed to you, the customer, as a 100 base T interface. Many customers plug their firewalls directly into the delivered circuit with no intermediate router required.
3) Scalability - Once fiber is delivered to your premise, it can scale to your needs. From 10Mbps to Gigabit speeds, it's the last physical connection that your business will require.
4) Multiple services - With excess capacity, comes extra capability. Customers soon realize that they can bring their SIP telephone trunks in across their data connection. The allows for additional economies of scale offered with VOIP and VOIP-based phone systems.
Butler Networks offers Metro Ethernet in all flavors mentioned above including providing MPLS based rings to connect multiple office sites together.
Butler Networks
sales@butler.net
615-369-7070 x3
