Layer 1 & 2 Optical Transport
Sonet/TDM Services
MBC offers Optical Transport services on our regional and long-haul network. Using our OC-48 and OC-192 SONET ring infrastructure, we offer reliable, carrier-class transport services. For MBC’s regional network in Southside Virginia, Nortel’s Optical Multiservice Edge (OME) 6500 platform has been deployed. This provides a robust, reliable and scalable infrastructure for SONET backbone infrastructure. MBC supports all OC-x services as well as DS1/DS3 services through the Nortel system.
- DS1 - Digital Service, 1.5 Mbps
- DS3 - Digital Service, 45 Mbps
- OC-3 - Optical Carrier, 155 Mbps
- OC-12 - Optical Carrier, 622 Mbps
- OC-48 - Optical Carrier, 2.5 Gbps
- OC-192 - Optical Carrier, 10 Gbps
METRO Ethernet/IP Services
For Metro Ethernet Services, MBC has deployed Nortel’s RPR (Resilient Packet Ring) family of cards in the OME 6500 platform. RPR provides a resilient carrier-grade packet ring infrastructure that combines the best capabilities of SONET/SDH and Ethernet, providing SONET/SDH’s efficient support for ring topology and fast recovery from link failures,. It also has Ethernet’s data transport efficiency, simplicity, familiarity, and cost advantages.
- 5 Mbps to 1,000 Mbps (1 Gbps)
- Network supports VLAN
Long-Haul Optical Transport
For Long-Haul Transport Services, MBC has purchased IRU fiber from Atlanta to McLean, Virginia and IRU redundant fiber from McLean, Virginia to Equinix-Ashburn. MBC had deployed Infinera’s Digital Transport Node (DTN) system, providing 200Gig of capacity between Atlanta (56 Marietta Street), Charlotte (4021 Rose Lake Drive), Raleigh (5301 Departure Drive), Richmond (8751 Park Central Drive), McLean (1755 Old Meadow Road), and the Equinix Facility in Ashburn Virginia (DC3 building). The Infinera platform deployed by MBC provides highly flexible connections between our POP’s, and includes the following:
- 1GigE
- 2.5G (Wavelengths from 1310-1560, Ethernet or OC-48)
- 10G (Wavelengths from 1310-1560, Ethernet or OC-192). These multiple 10G wavelengths can be provided for data centers, content delivery network providers and other uses that require dedicated Layer 1 Optical Transport services.
For more information about MBC’s Optical Transport services, contact Tad Deriso, MBC General Manager, at tad@mbc-va.com or call Tad at 804.855.4057.