Data Center | Network | Servers

Provider 1:

The "Power Driving Your Network" begins with more than 17,000 miles of fiber networks, including nearly 11,000 miles of our local metro networks in 22 states and 44 U.S. markets. Our expansive fiber networks connect to over 3,500 buildings and pass thousands more, providing us a unique opportunity to meet the growing demand for new data services and capture increased market share. Our optical networks are fast, powerful, flexible, secure and highly reliable to deliver a comprehensive suite of voice, data, dedicated Internet and integrated communications services to our customers.

General network Map

IP Backbone Map

Time Warner Telecom's IP backbone architecture consists of multiple, diverse optical circuits with a core network operating at OC-48 speeds and some peripheral locations connected via OC-12s. Time Warner Telecom's IP backbone is built with redundancy at the local, regional, and national levels. Time Warner Telecom metropolitan SONET and DWDM infrastructures (composed of fiber, equipment and on-net facilities) are configured to enable redundant local transport from customer locations to TWTC local Internet points of presence (POPs). These local Internet POPs are connected via diversely routed Packet-over-SONET circuits to enable regional connectivity. The regional connectivity is interconnected through MPLS to other regions’ IP POPs to form the Time Warner Telecom national IP backbone. Additional local/regional circuits are dedicated for private and public peering arrangements for redundant IP traffic management.

The backbone is designed to promote availability, survivability, and diversity in order to provide high quality services to TWTC corporate clients, such as EIRCA Internet Solutions. TWTC's network systems are specifically designed to automatically trigger processes to increase capacity when the IP backbone reaches 60% sustained utilization.

Provider 2:

WilTel’s network utilizes advanced optical networking technologies and next-generation switching and routing systems to provide enterprises, service providers, government agencies and media companies with the ideal foundation for their mission-critical applications. The WilTel® network enables our operational agility and plays a key role in our proven track record of customer satisfaction. And it has made us the recipient of many of the industry’s most notable awards including:

SUPERQuest Award – best-built core backbone (1998-2000)
Infovision Award -- public network architecture (1999)
Networld+Interop Infrastructure Award -- most innovative backbone network provider (2000)
Atlantic-ACM Wholesale Carrier Report Card -- Top rated carrier three years in a row (2002, 2003, 2004)

Resiliency

From beneath the ground up, WilTel built its network to provide a high degree of resiliency and survivability. Our cables are buried deeper than most networks to reduce the likelihood of damage from unsuspecting excavators. And many of our fibers are run through and next to hardened, decommissioned natural gas pipelines rather than flexible plastic conduits, providing an additional layer of protection. Unlike some carriers who have to manage difficult, error-prone interconnections between old legacy equipment and newer systems, WilTel’s network is next-generation across every element, ensuring better performance and reliability. The core of our optical network is fully meshed providing redundancy across all paths and because our IP backbone is MPLS-enabled, we have the ability to fast-reroute to avoid congestion and network outages on that platform. The foresight and engineering prowess that went into this network was never more evident than on Sept. 11, 2001, and during the blackouts of August 2003 when WilTel’s network performed during both events without a single outage.

Scalability & Capacity

Built to expand based on demand, WilTel’s network allows the company to take advantage of future advances in optical networking. The WilTel® network was built with a minimum of 96 fibers in every build, with multiple conduits and optical amplifiers or regeneration stations every 40 miles along the network. Utilizing OC-192 transport systems with dense wavelength division multiplexing, the WilTel network delivers up to 180 Gbps on a single fiber system. The WilTel optical network architecture also enables unheard of provisioning times frames: as little as 25 days for OC-48 (2.488 Gbps) connections.

Flexibility

WilTel’s network was built as a bridge to the next century of communications. It was designed to let you migrate from the legacy technologies of yesterday to the next-generation protocols of tomorrow, at the time and place of your choosing. Our ability to intelligently inter-network IP, Frame Relay, ATM, and Ethernet means WilTel can deliver a logical migration path that saves you from the disruption caused by replacing everything at once. Our MPLS-enabled IP network will elegantly interconnect your remote locations to any web-based application. And our EWAN network will interconnect your applications across the country as easily as if they were in the same office. WilTel even provides colocation and data center space providing the ultimate flexibility of allowing you to locate your application directly on the network.

Global Reach

WilTel’s integrated, fiber-optic network provides local-to-global connectivity, linking more than 100 cities and reaching five continents around the globe. WilTel has direct access to its network in more than 700 locations across the country that extends our network into major markets and high-bandwidth locations, enabling on-net connectivity via high-speed private line and Optical Wave services. Our innovative Extended On-Net access platform adds an additional 300+ access points for high-bandwidth (DS-3 and above) on-net services in Tier 2 and 3 markets. Our relationships with more than 40 non-RBOC vendors add 12,000 off-net locations for ubiquitous coverage.