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EtherSphere™
"The introduction of EtherSphere establishes Global Crossing as a leader in global Ethernet VPLS."
Rena Bhattacharyya
Research Manager
IDC
"Global Crossing’s recent launch of its global EtherSphere portfolio squarely addresses wide area Ethernet deployment concerns of enterprises."
Erin Dunne
Director of Research Services
Vertical Systems Group
"EtherSphere is an exciting VPLS offer to come to the global market. The billing flexibility, breadth of coverage and interworking capabilities with layer 3 WAN services distinguish EtherSphere as a compelling layer 2 service offering providing significant benefits to customers."
Stan Hubbard
Senior Analyst
Heavy Reading
"With the launch of EtherSphere, Global Crossing has placed itself in a competitive position for meeting growing demand in the market for international any-to-any Layer 2 Carrier Ethernet services. The operator is hitting the market with a well-designed Ethernet VPLS offer that is enhanced with several features, such as support for up to six CoS, and flexible pricing and bandwidths. The richness in capability combined with strong existing global MPLS reach and know-how make the Global Crossing EtherSphere product range a strong proposition in the market."
Joel Stradling
Senior Analyst
Current Analysis
Ethernet Transport with Flexibility and Global Reach.
Global Crossing's EtherSphere portfolio delivers worldwide Ethernet-based wide area network solutions. EtherSphere's virtual private LAN services (VPLS) provide the flexbility enterprises need to decrease network management costs, provide diversity, and improve connectivity among geographically dispersed locations. As an Ethernet service - EtherSphere provides economies of scale to support converged services on a single connection. As a complementary service to Global Crossing's IP VPN Service™, EtherSphere offers you and your enterprise customers a complete solution set for extending network reach.
Global Crossing's EtherSphere portfolio incorporates market-leading features that provide privacy and security, while giving the customer full routing control with rapid and flexible service provisioning. Further, EtherSphere configurations are consistent with MEF services types. The EtherSphere WAN portfolio is delivered on a common Cisco-powered platform around the globe. Enterprise customers will realize the same features and capabilities regardless of location.
FEATURES & BENEFITS
Reach - Through the company's EtherExtendsm Flex access service and UK EtherSphere service, customers can connect to Ethernet transport services from 150 locations, including nearly 80 Cisco 7600 series provider edge routers, supporting 26 countries around the globe. Additionally, Global Crossing's extensive footprint provides wide area network solutions in more than 690 cities and more than 60 countries over six continents with IP VPN services.
Flexible Service Types:
- Multipoint to Multipoint - Provides any to any multi-point data connectivity where all sites appear on same Ethernet network - regardless of their actual locations.
- Point to Multipoint - Provides hub and spoke site connectivity for service multiplexing, allowing more than one Ethernet virtual connection at the user-to-network interface; similar to traditional private line fan-out service.
- Point to Point - Provides site to site connectivity similar to Ethernet private lines.
Flexible Billing - While most VPLS offers require committed bandwidth, Global Crossing's EtherSphere provides more flexibility by offering a usage-base billing component, making it the right choice for backup and disaster recovery implementations.
Scalability - A network designed for Converged IP services, Global Crossing's EtherSphere can meet a broad range of business applications to improve business efficiency at speeds from 1 Mbps to 2 Gbps:.
- 1-10 Mbps in 1 Mbps increments
- 10-100 Mbps in 5 Mbps increments
- 100-1000 Mbps in 25 Mbps increments
- 1000-2000 Mbps in 100 Mbps increments
- Greater than 2 G - upon request
Six Classes of Service - EtherSphere offers an industry-leading six Classes of Service enabling users to priority rank traffic to maximize bandwidth efficiency and utilization.
Optional Layer 2 and Layer 3 Interworking - This capability provides Ethernet services to support very large locations and MPLS IP VPN services to interconnect the majority of sites, or where more cost effective.
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