Astound

Our DIA service offers:

• Scalability - Our DIA service can grow with your business as your traffic increases, offering low-latency connectivity that scales as large as you need it. We also provide real-time bursting when needed.
• Reliability - Astound’s fiber-optic IP backbone operates over multiple redundant 10-gigabit connections, so you can be assured of the highest network reliability.
• Service Level Agreement (SLA) - Our carrier-grade, industry-leading SLA guarantees critical service uptime levels of over 99.9%.
• Privacy - Your always-on internet connection is dedicated to your company and never shared with your neighbors.
• Faster Connections - You’ll get faster connections with less congestion because of our extension with over 300 peer connections like Akamai, Google, Amazon, Netflix, and Facebook.
• 24/7 Support - You’ll receive 24/7 Network Operation Center support and live support in your own time zone.

Ethernet Private Line (EPL)

• Point-to-point Ethernet connectivity
• Get the most flexible point-to-point configurations backed by reliable, carrier-class fiber. Our EPL service meets the demands of high-bandwidth applications over Ethernet so you can expand to new locations, connect new offices and data centers, and run bandwidth-intensive applications with confidence.

Ethernet Virtual Private Line (EVPL)

• Point-to-multipoint connectivity
• Connect multiple sites to a single hub with a dedicated high-speed private network for transferring data, voice, and video communications. EVPL streamlines your network management across multiple locations with configuration options to support your offices anywhere.

Ethernet Local Area Network (ELAN)

• Dedicated Layer 2 connectivity
• Use ELAN service to allow multiple locations to communicate directly with each other across your private network through a seamless extension of each site’s LAN environment.

Circuit Options

• 10 Gbps and 400 Gbps LAN/WAN PHY
• Full port-speed throughput
• Point-to-point and diverse path
• Dedicated fiber infrastructure
• Custom solutions

Dedicated Fiber Infrastructure

• DWDM core platform
• Low-latency
• Guaranteed throughput
• Data center to data center connectivity

• Secure - Your sites are directly connected and avoid any outside network traffic.
• Scalable - The only limit on your bandwidth is the equipment you choose to use.
• Independent - You have total access to manage and troubleshoot your network as you see fit.
• Adaptable - Dark Fiber works with any optical equipment and poses no limits to the applications you run.

Reliability

• All entry points include carrier-grade facilities and fully-redundant power
• Massive capacity at the network edge allows for traffic failover without customer impact
• Custom Access Control Lists (ACLs)

Redundancy

• Fully-redundant core network infrastructure
• Fully-diverse connections to every major peer in multiple markets
• Multiple peering points spread across footprint
• Fully-diverse and redundant fiber paths to every data center

Routes and Coverage

• Options for full site and path redundancy
• Dynamic protection routing in the event of service threats
• Faster connections with less congestion because of Wave’s extension with over 300 peer connections like Akamai, Netflix, Google, and Amazon routing through seven Tier 1 providers

Our VXC connections provide:

• Reduced IT infrastructure and management costs- Get direct data center connectivity, multiple bandwidth options, and competitive price points.
• Robust, affordable bandwidth - Our fiber network provides competitively priced, high-capacity connections for optimal and efficient communication.
• Business continuity and disaster recovery - Our self-healing fiber ring protects your critical data and provides superior network availability and resiliency.
• Rapid service turn-up - Adapt to expanding business needs with simple, flexible, rapid deployments to numerous data centers.
• Secure Transport - Safeguard your network and reduce risk with a secure, private Ethernet network.
• 24/7 Support with service guarantees - We stand behind our solutions with an end-to-end industry-leading Service Level Agreement (SLA) that extends across our backbone, metro core, and last-mile network for fiber-based services. You’ll receive 24/7 Network Operation Center support and monitoring.

The Key Benefits and Results of SD-WAN include:

• Unlimited Scalability – Speeds that support any size application from regional to global scale, with the ability to grow your public domain.
• Fully Automated Management and Monitoring – Maintain and manage all of your devices from one location.
• Strong support – You have peace of mind with our local 24/7 responsive team that will help deploy, manage and troubleshoot services.
• Resiliency – SD-WAN affords the use of other sources of Internet without the need for complicated routing expertise to route traffic around congestion points and automatic failover when necessary.
• Cost Savings – Lower WAN Capex and Opex by augmenting or even replacing legacy connections with broadband internet services to connect users to applications.

• Extend your broadband connection with professionally installed plug-and-play hotspots for single and multi-site networks.
• Enable an all-wireless digital work environment in a cost effective manner.
• Offer a superb user experience for medium density locations.