Peer Outage

All, one of our peering circuits suffered an outage today. Traffic was rerouted during the circuit repair. We are very sorry for the inconvenience that this has caused.

DSL Outage continues. We have isolated the problem to an ATM switch and are replacing some hardware on that device. We hope to have things up and running later today (Saturday). Thanks for your continued understanding.

We are experiencing an ATM outage at the moment. This is causing a disruption of service to our DSL and T1 customers. The outage started at approximately 5:45pm this evening and is being worked on.

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 2010 Promotion

Nashville, TN
February 1, 2010

Butler Networks is running a promotion for customers who sign 2 year contracts prior to March 1, 2010. Butler Networks will extend a 50% credit for the first 2 months service on Collocation, Metro Ethernet and VOIP services. This represents savings ranging from $1400 - $3000. Call Butler Networks at 615-369-7070 x500 or email us at sales@butler.net to discuss these incredible deals.

All,

We experienced a problem with the radius server this morning. We were unable to process PPPoE login requests for approximately 1 hour. We are sorry for the inconvenience that this may have caused you.

PPPoE Gateway problem

We had an issue with PPPoE negotiating the gateway address as 0.0.0.0 instead of the proper value. This was causing issues with local VPNs and routing. We removed a feature on our core router and the problem has gone with it. In particular, this affected customers with airport extreme's and customers doing vpns within our network.