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METRO FIBER

Digital West continues its quest to provide San Luis Obispo County with Internet services normally found only in larger metropolitan areas. The big telecom companies don't believe there is a business case for building extensive fiber optic networks in our community. Digital West is proving that there is the demand, and that it can be done. Our goal is nothing short of delivering fiber optic service to every business in San Luis Obispo.

As businesses upgrade their LANs to GigE and 10 GigE speeds, employee productivity is soaring for applications that reside on the LAN. However, employees face lesser productivity and bandwidth bottlenecks for applications outside the LAN where speeds have traditionally been limited to much slower telco circuit speeds of T-1s, DSL, and DS-3s.

With virtualization and video conferencing becoming more prevalent, now is the time to implement an Internet and/or Wide Area Network (WAN) infrastructure to support your growing bandwidth requirements.

To help solve these IT infrastructure needs, Digital West is expanding its fiber optic network to deliver 100 Mbps, GigE, and 10 GigE speeds for commercial-grade Internet and WAN connections. Digital West's Metro Fiber services include:

• Ethernet IP Transit – Access Digital West's business-class Internet backbone from your office without having to use slower circuits from other providers. Our speeds start at 5 Mbps up and down and increment up to 10 GigE (equivalent to 10,000 Mbps). These higher speeds will make it easier to add further redundancy to your network by virtualizing your servers for your location(s).
• Point-to-Point Ethernet – Simplify and also upgrade the speed at which your remote offices access shared servers and applications at your corporate office. Get a 100 Mbps or GigE connection between 2 sites or to your colo cabinet at Digital West.
• Point-to-Multi-Point Ethernet – For those businesses with 3+ locations, Digital West can help you build a network using 100 Mbps, GigE, or 10 Gig circuits. We can also help you integrate T1s or DS-3s in locations where Metro Ethernet is not yet available.
• Enterprise Bundle – Combine one of our Metro Fiber services with other Digital West products and receive discounts on all services. Applicable products include:
  • Colocation – 2U to full rack options
  • Remote Backup Service
  • Rent-A-LUN, high capacity data storage with out of region capabilities
  • Dedicated Hosted Servers
  • Managed Servers
  • Virtual Servers
  • Web Hosting & Email
  • Managed Network Services
• Dark Fiber – For those carriers and larger end-user customers interested in installing their own equipment, the bandwidth options are virtually unlimited.

Metro Fiber Features:

• Internet increments starting at 5 Mbps Ethernet
• Guaranteed full-duplex 100 Mbps, GigE, and 10 GigE speeds via IEEE standard Ethernet interface
• Each customer's traffic is securely separated throughout the network
• Flexibility to design services in Layer 1, 2, or 3
• Optional features such as MPLS, QoS, VLAN tagging, managed router(s)

Benefits of Digital West's Metro Fiber Solutions

• Cost-effective, simple solution with the same Ethernet technology in your LAN and WAN
• Faster speeds than ATM, T-1s, DSL, and DS-3s – instead purchase 100 Mbps, Gig E, and 10 GigE speeds
• Plug and play installation plus quick and easy upgrades without having to install new circuits and purchase new hardware.
• High speed connections to facilitate virtualization
• Consolidate providers for your data center, managed server, and Internet / WAN infrastructure

Additional Information

If you would like to learn more about our Metro Fiber project as well as view some of our installation photographs, please visit our Tech Article on the subject:

Tech Articles » Digital West Metro Ethernet