USCarrier to Roll Out Ethernet Exchange Across its SE Footprint

Source: US Carrier Press Release

USCarrier Telecom, LLC, a Southeastern wholesale provider of high-speed, long-haul, fiber optic transport announced that the company will offer Ethernet Exchange services creating an Ethernet-based virtual interconnection across USCarrier’s Points of Presence in their four state network. USCarrier has selected packet-optical solutions from Cyan to provide Connection Oriented Ethernet across its optical transport network.

USCarrier is able to extend the reach of its Ethernet Exchange capabilities across its footprint using the Cyan Z-Series packet-optical transport platform (P-OTP). Cyan’s Z-Series P-OTP and multi-layer software provide an extremely reliable, scalable, and efficient Ethernet infrastructure that will allow USCarrier and its partners, to sell services across the entire footprint while reducing service provisioning time. Cyan is leveraging scalable layer 2 Ethernet switching and Connection Oriented Ethernet to deliver fully protected connections with SONET-like resiliency over native Ethernet between connection points to the partner’s data centers and Ethernet Exchange points. Cyan’s CyMS management platform provides USCarrier with A-Z Ethernet provisioning, multi-layer fault correlation, and 3-Dimensional visualization of the network to ensure the highest level of service availability. Cyan’s Network Operations Center, CyNOC, is also providing USCarrier a real time back-up NOC service to monitor the network providing customers not only redundant network resources but redundant monitoring resources as well.

The Ethernet Exchange service will provide bandwidths from 50 Mb to 1 Gig. The service will be initially rolled out to nine POP’s in Georgia and Alabama with projected operational turn-up by July 1, 2011. By year-end, USCarrier will add an additional nine POP’s to the Ethernet Exchange service.