To help your people work more effectively across multiple locations, you need to link up remote local networks in a single, cohesive communications solution. Allstream Switched Ethernet – designed for organizations that are currently using Ethernet connectivity – reduces the cost and complexity of maintaining multiple independent local area networks (LANs) within a centrally administered wide area network (WAN).

Allstream Switched Ethernet is a low-latency, high-bandwidth service that allows smooth, dependable sharing of information and applications – including voice over IP, email, file transfers, real-time database queries and shared Internet access. With all of these business tools available across multiple LANs, everyone can work more productively. What’s more, Switched Ethernet provides superior scalability and lower-cost data transfers compared to private-line services – making those productivity gains easy to justify at the bottom line.

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A service designed to grow with you.
Offering full virtual private network support, Allstream Switched Ethernet lets you build a unified Ethernet WAN that grows and changes as your organization does. You can quickly add bandwidth capacity to match the demands of new users and business initiatives.

• Easily add or remove branches across your network.
• Support complex web-based applications, including access to real-time data and search engines.
• Integrate end-user devices such as IP phones, IP cameras, RFID (radio-frequency identification) readers and point-of-sale terminals.

Retain the flexibility of managing your own network:
Switched Ethernet not only gives you full access to Allstream’s high-availability networking infrastructure – it can also provide the high-performance foundation for a Layer 3 network:

• Conveniently manage your own IP addresses and routing protocol.
• Establish non-IP Layer 3 protocols such as SNA, IPX/SPX and DECnet

Reduce administration and infrastructure costs:
The increased efficiency of Allstream Switched Ethernet reduces the expense of network administration as well as overall infrastructure costs.

• The scalable service can accommodate and consolidate multiple existing network circuits
• No customer-premises equipment (CPE) is required; a simple RJ-45 connector provides the demarcation point.

Achieve superior levels of guaranteed performance:
Once your Switched Ethernet service is in place – with a full-refund, on-time installation guarantee  you can take advantage of the highest levels of network performance, reducing costly downtime.

• Allstream provides a site availability guarantee of up to 99.9%.
• In the event of a network outage, you can count on a mean-time-to-restore  (MTTR) commitment of four hours.
• Allstream’s on-net service level agreements (SLAs) cover packet loss, latency and network availability.