DS3 Features and Benefits

Digital Signal Level 3 (DS3) service is used for customers who need to transport large amounts of information between locations and who have the flexibility to configure communications services to meet specific needs to economically optimize networks, such as aggregation of lower speed services, e.g., DS1 (1.544Mbps), onto a high speed digital backbone.

Digital Signal Level 3 (DS3) facility can be channelized to provide 28 DS1 circuits with the multiplexing ability to enable a platform for voice video and data services. This advanced, digital communications solution is designed and deployed to support mission-critical business functions and applications such as:

Cost Savings with DS3

- DS3 Cost Savings are generated by aggregating DS1 service.

- Gradated discounts through flexible pricing plans based on length of contract term.
- (1, 2, 3, 5 year options)

DS3 is Highly Reliable

High standards of accuracy and system availability of 99.99%

Responsiveness

Service and repair guarantees are offered on DS3 service.

Aggregation of Service

Single future proof solution for integrating voice, video and data applications.

Added Security

Unprecedented security mandated by the US Federal Government

Flexibility

Broad spectrum of access and billing options

Count on global access that grows with your business.

Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) connects your enterprise network to the Internet for transmitting data to and from any point in the world at a specified bandwidth. Conduct business anywhere, anytime with exceptional speed, security, and reliability. Increase the quality of your customer experience by combining DIA with optional Managed Network Services (MNS). DIA can also be integrated with IP VPN (Virtual Private Network) or other types of transport services as one seamless offer to reduce your management load, total bandwidth requirements and expenses. DIA service provides you with a single relationship for all of your global IP service needs.

Speed and efficiency for today and tomorrow.

Enabling communication among employees, customers, and business partners with DIA. Leverage our scalable bandwidth for increased capacity whenever you need it. Combining our status as one of the world's few global Tier 1 Internet Service Providers (ISPs) with our single AS (Autonomous System) number yields the ultimate in high-speed data transport. For you, fewer data hand-offs translates into faster transmission, less down-time, and greater productivity. Speed without security would be senseless so rest easy knowing that our network operates under the watchful eye of the US federal government, in compliance with our precedent-setting National Security Agreement (NSA).

DIA is scalable and flexible enough to grow with you as you discover new requirements for IPv6 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet service, including LAN/PHY and WAN/PHY interfaces. We were the first and remain the only-global communications provider with IPv6 natively deployed in both its private and public backbone networks. We are uniquely qualified to enable your transition to IPv6, today or tomorrow.

Ds3 / T3 Service Features:

DS3 Standard Features

- Best-in-class SLA: 99.999% uptime
- Nationwide coverage: no distance or technically-related connectivity limitations
- Guaranteed upload and download speeds are great for applications such as VOIP
- Professional installation: ensures your service is set up right
- Priority Business Support 24/7

- Full transit, route-optimized TCP/IP connectivity through our P-NAP® facility
- directly to the major Internet backbones
- 24 x 7 Proactive circuit monitoring, outage reporting and outage troubleshooting
- by the Network Operations Center (NOC)
- Notification schedule and escalation procedures
- Bandwidth utilization graphs available 24 x 7
- Optional NNTP News Feed
- Circuit provisioning
- Primary DNS for one (1) domain -or- Secondary DNS for up to 200 domains
- Allocation of IP addresses in compliance with ARIN policy
- Engineering start-up service

DS3 Optional Features

Optional Features and Functions may be added to DS3 Service to improve its quality or its utility to meet specific communication requirements. Available DS3 Optional Features and Functions include:

Central Office Multiplexing: The equipment is located in the Central Office that derives 28 channels from the DS3 service.
GCG COMMAND A LINK sm is available in selected Central Offices and allows a customer to control the reconfiguration of Private Line and switched services on a near real-time basis by means of the special provisioning of these services through a digital cross-connect device.
Self-Healing Alternate Route Protection/Self-Healing Interoffice Protection (SHARP/SHARP Plus*) is provisioned solely on fiber optics and provides a separate facility path for the protection between the Serving Wire Center (SWC) and the customer premises. It protects the customer against failure of primary fiber route and the electronics in the local loop. The SHARP Plus feature extends the same alternate route protection into the interoffice portion of the circuit.
- Fractional DS3 (45 Mbsp) Service
- Router Configuration Service (Cisco routers only)
- Firewall Configuration Service (Standard IP Packet Filter, Cisco routers only)
- Additional primary and secondary DNS Service