Enterprise cloud communications provider Stage 2 Networks has announced completion of phase one of its network augmentation project, which will enable high-speed network-to-network interconnection. The company said that this project has created a fault tolerant fiber optical Metro Ethernet core to service its On-Net points of presence in New York, New Jersey and surrounding markets.
In a statement, Stage 2 Networks’s CTO Tom Faherty said, “This is a carrier grade deployment that provides complete physical diversity while delivering high capacity and ultra-low latency service. The interconnects between our points of presence on this network traverse distinctly different underlying physical fiber rings, optical transport equipment and building points of entry.”
Additionally, Stage 2 has also brought a new core facility on-line at a well-known carrier collocation data center in Newark, NJ and completed a network wide augment, which delivers an additional 4 Gigabits per second (Gbps) of IP transit capacity.
Faherty indicated that the Newark facility offers geographic redundancy for key services and systems in the company’s Northeast Corridor footprint and enables Phase Two of its planned system augments for the third quarter. He further said that the additional IP transit capacity via Tier-One partners allows the company to bundle high-capacity Internet access with its cloud based voice solutions, delivered over dynamic QoS enabled On-Net circuits.
Leveraging these developments in core network hardware, infrastructure and network to network interconnection (NNI), Stage 2 unveiled its On-Net MPLS service offering. With this new service, Stage 2 intends to reach markets across all the 48 contiguous States in the US.
Faherty said, “We’re truly excited to expand our MPLS capability to include enhanced On-Net service nationwide. Stage 2 has enjoyed success with MPLS through strategic partnerships with select carriers. With our 2013 network expansion we introduce MPLS to our network core. This allows us to construct solutions leveraging local loops from any of the national transport partners with whom we built NNIs to earlier this year.”
According to Stage 2, the expanded MPLS capability offers maximum flexibility through a wide range of available circuit types and solves for diversity by enabling the use of different underlying network transport partners. In essence, it has the ability to divert and route traffic around link failures, congestion, and bottlenecks.
Edited by Blaise McNamee