Welcome to Metro Ethernet Services
from Comcast Business Class
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Opening Questions
Are you experiencing bandwidth constraints?
Are your legacy technologies limiting you and costing too much?
Are your applications running at peak performance?
Can you take full advantage of cloud computing?
Are all your locations connected as well they can be?
Can you effectively comply with regulatory requirements?
Is data center connectivity an issue?
Is your business continuity and disaster recovery plan robust enough?
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Your New Choice
It’s time to consider your newest option for
highly reliable, scalable, secure and affordable
quality bandwidth:
Metro Ethernet Services from
The largest facilities-based alternative to
the phone companies for providing
first mile and last mile connectivity
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Why Carrier Ethernet ?
Standardized Standardized equipment limits network integration challenges
Scalability Service from 1Mbps to 10Gbps
Reliability Ability for the network to detect and recover from incidents without impacting users
Service Management Monitor, diagnose
and centrally manage the network, using standards-based vendor independent methods
Quality of Service Wide choice and
granularity of bandwidth and quality of service options that can accommodate existing TDM traffic and other service flows
Metro Ethernet Forum
certified 9, 14 and 18
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Portfolio of Services with Class of Service Options
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ETHERNET VIRTUAL PRIVATE LINE EVPL
ETHERNET PRIVATE LINE EPL
ETHERNET NETWORK SERVICEELAN
ETHERNET DEDICATED INTERNET
Comcast’s Network: The Largest Facilities-Based Alternative to the Phone Companies for Providing Last Mile Connectivity
Unparalleled Reach Within Markets
• Fiber deep and fiber rich
• Physically diverse path
• High-bandwidth coax network with
existing access to millions of businesses
Service in 20 of Top 25 DMAs
• 39 States & Washington, DC
• 600,000 + plant route miles
• 138,000 fiber route miles
• 120,000 Optical nodes
• Capacity: 2.8 Tbps and growing
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Comcast Network Architecture
Network Resiliency – built to
support today’s & tomorrow’s
business class performance
requirements
Highly Scalable – able to deliver
Ethernet services to more locations
with more bandwidth options in
granular bandwidth increments
Integrated Ethernet Access – able
to deliver Internet, voice, video and
data needs via an Ethernet handoff
Layer-2 VPN support – delivering
any-to-any connectivity via VPLS
negating the requirement to share
IP routing information with the
service provider
Extensive Footprint – with 29
regional networks spanning 39
states Comcast delivers more
service to more locations
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Comcast Region Area Network (CRAN)
Architecture - dual star
topology; leveraging best-in-
class multi-vendor solutions
Services - all Metro Ethernet
offerings are fully MEF certified
both from a service and
hardware vendor perspective.
Technology – leverage VPLS
capabilities within MPLS to
provide a Layer-2 VPN enabling
the end user to maintain control
over routing protocols.
Transparency – full CoS/QoS
transparency and non routing
layer 2 and layer 3 protocol
control and transparency.
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The People & Resources Supporting You & The Network
Highly talented team
Thousands of experienced professionals
Carrier class network engineering support experts in place
Ongoing multilayer, proactive monitoring and troubleshooting
Significant experience in managing emergency situations
Ongoing management and analysis of network traffic to insure
the network is operating within performance parameters
Business Services Network Operations Center (BNOC)
is redundant and operates 24x7x365
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Helping organizations like yours
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Why Comcast Business Class ?
Reliability
Scalability
Business Class Support
Network Depth, Breadth and Diversity
To learn more, visit business.comcast.com/ethernet
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Comcast Corporation
Comcast Corporation is the nation’s leading provider of information,
communications and entertainment products and services.
Video
Customers
Internet
Customers
Digital Voice
CustomersEmployees
24.6 Million 16.3 Million 5.6 Million 100,000 (in 39 states)
2010 Revenue $37.9 Billion
2010 Operating Cash Flow $14.6 Billion
2010 Comcast is 6th largest origin / transit group ASN (Autonomous System Number) by volume
2009 Comcast becomes the 3rd largest telephone company in the United States
2008 Comcast gains Carrier Class Ethernet certification from Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF)
2008 Comcast launches DOCSIS 3.0 Internet service (up to 50Mbps down/10Mbps up)
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