Metro Ethernet Network provides flexible, scalable broadband and reduces equipment costs

Macquarie Telecom’s Ethernet service is available on our Metro Access Network allowing business customers the unique opportunity to access Metro Ethernet over the traditional unconditioned local loop (ULL) network. This means that Ethernet is not only more readily available to locations that may not have suitable fibre connectivity but it also reduces the cost and time to deploy.

Key Questions about Metro Ethernet

• Want to reduce support costs by standardising on Ethernet for the WAN?
• Need flexible broadband data speeds that can easily scale to meet your changing needs?
• Think you cannot use Metro Ethernet because you do not have ready access to Fibre?
• Want to reduce capital equipment costs?

If your business is considering, or has deployed an IP based data network, you can achieve significant benefits when using an Ethernet based wide area network (Metro Ethernet) connections over traditional serial data or DSL connections.

The familiarity of Ethernet will reduce an organisation’s dependence on specialist networking skills and allow existing staff or contractors, who primarily work in LAN environments in metro areas, to provide operational support for the WAN. There is also a broad array of service tools for Metro Ethernet connections, allowing an organisation to more effectively manage its network and perform root cause analysis. This results in faster times to repair and more business uptime.

Upgrading a Metro Ethernet connection can be a very simple process. As a customer of Macquarie Telecom you can put in place the capability to operate your Ethernet service at a high-speed yet only enable (and pay) for the speed you need. At any point in the future you can quickly and painlessly amend the operational speed. The only consideration for you, if using the Macquarie Telecom QoS service, is the changes to your WAN QoS configuration in order to optimise the financial benefit to your business.

A Macquarie Telecom Metro Ethernet service can run in either routed or bridged mode. When operating in routed mode this alleviates the need for a business to invest in a wide area network router. However if you wish to manage your network routing in house, the bridged mode from Macquarie Telecom allows total network transparency for your router.

Metro Ethernet Service Expertise

The range of Metro Ethernet services from Macquarie Telecom is only limited by your physical location and proximity to the appropriate access services. And as with all Macquarie Telecom data services, every Metro Ethernet service is backed by our personalised Account Management and our business centric approach to service level guarantees, implementation and support, including:

• Clear channel data throughput+ to your Macquarie Telecom IP VPN port or to your Macquarie Telecom Internet gateway connection.
• Guaranteed service availability (99.9%) and support response times (30 minutes) to maximise business uptime.
• Our 24x7 Data Contact Centre allowing our business Customers to access our personalised support services at your convenience.
• Fully managed services, including on site break fix support, Ethernet Network Terminating Unit (NTU).

Contact us today to discuss how our Metro Ethernet solutions can help your business.