BellSouth last week announced the launch of Virtual BellSouth® Metro Ethernet Service, the latest edition to what is the broadest Metro Ethernet portfolio available among U.S. service providers.
Metro Ethernet is the telecommunications industry designation for Ethernet transport services that moves data traffice between two or more customer Ethernet Local Area Networks (LANs). Virtual BellSouth Metro Ethernet Service provides four classes of service, committed information rate and service level agreements and can link locations using multipoint-to-multipoint, point-to- multipoint or point-to-point architecture.
"The latest enhancement to BellSouth® Metro Ethernet Service takes the product portfolio to the next level," said Martin Chandler, vice president, product management - Business Markets, BellSouth. "BellSouth now offers the diversity of speed and premium features to support the entire range of data, video and voice over IP applications over Ethernet."
Early adopters of the service may include companies from finance, health care, manufacturing, education and local government segments that require guaranteed throughput, comprehensive service level agreements and high-speed, cost effective Ethernet service to support multiple applications.
