Intellispring's Integration and Deployment Services for
enterprise optical networking is designed to deliver comprehensive solutions for
high-speed, high- availability networking to improve performance, optimize IT investments,
and enhance customer service. Our team can help you streamline your voice, video, or data
networks with advanced fiber optic Technologies through a variety of assessment, strategy,
architecture, and design services. We evaluate your systems and make recommendations that are
fully integrated with your business objectives, helping you expand capacity as your business
grows to stay competitive in the marketplace. Working with major network equipment vendors
like Cisco Systems, Nortel Networks, and others, we have developed solutions that will enable
you to leverage the benefit of optical networking in your infrastructure.
Intellispring brings its Optical Certifications on the Cisco ONS Optical platform or the Nortel
Optera Metro Optical Solution to eliminate congestion, redefine performance and economics,
and enable new value-added services.
Why Optical Networks?
Until the mid-'90s, metropolitan networks primarily carried voice-based circuits: DS1s and
DS3s for private-line services. That picture has changed dramatically in the new multi service,
data-centric world - a world of LAN-to-LAN connectivity, bandwidth-hungry multimedia services,
and high-volume Internet use. It's a whole new game for metro network planners, trying to
determine where and when—and with what service mix - their most profitable business will appear.
In one location, metro network planners may need to add-drop DS1s, DS3s, EC-1s, and Ethernet
circuits; hub OC-3 and OC-12 optical rings, as well as OC-48 traffic; and support IP, ATM and
optical wavelength services that stretch the capacity of existing fiber.
Looking further, many carriers need to deliver end-to-end services that span multiple metro
areas, even globally. In that scenario, metro networks are squeezed from both sides. On the
backbone side, optical technologies such as dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) at
line rates of 10 Gbps and up, offer up huge volumes of bandwidth. On the enterprise side, Fast
Ethernet (100 Mbps), Gigabit Ethernet, and 10 Gigabit Ethernet networks are capable of pumping
unprecedented volumes of traffic into the metro network. That means, if you're sending a big
file or video conference from East Coast headquarters to West Coast sales offices, the
bottleneck isn't in leaving the user's desktop, it's actually in the metro network.
Today's typical metropolitan network is not well positioned to meet these new demands. Years
of implementing overlaid rings, back-to-back multiplexers-demultiplexers, protocol conversion
boxes, and other devices have created bottlenecks and inefficient bandwidth management. With
optical networks, you can eliminate urban traffic jams with fiber access from enterprise to
service provider, and reliable, high-speed optical networks around the metro area, reduce
congestion, costs, and lost opportunities by employing network 'intelligence' that makes the
most efficient use of network resources and enables new services. Further, you can offer a new
range of profitable revenue services such as Optical Ethernet, differentiated classes of
service, bandwidth-on-demand, managed wavelength services and optical storage connectivity
services.