Integrated Optical Service

Overview

The "Deliver It All" Network

Revolutionize the way you serve customers. Verizon’s Integrated Optical Service delivers multiple technologies over one compact delivery architecture via resilient optical services. Verizon’s Integrated Optical Service is one of the most powerful network convergence and consolidation technologies available today. You efficiently control operational costs and simplify network management while offering the traditional applications and next-generation interfaces that delight customers.

Integrated Optical Service integrates Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM), SONET, and packet technologies configured as a diversely-routed full ring network that transports service offerings via 44 wavelength channels riding over a pair of optical fibers. Your Verizon Integrated Optical Service hosts storage, networking, video, SONET switches, IP network routers and more.

Using Verizon’s Integrated Optical Service network allows you to evolve and grow while maintaining the continuity of current services. Integrated Optical Service architecture is more compact and flexible. As we evolve this network, you will soon be able to spur off your Integrated Optical Service network for multi-point connectivity and flexible mesh architectures. And Integrated Optical Service lets you provide a seamless range of capabilities.

Be among the first service providers to capitalize on these competitive advantages using Verizon’s Integrated Optical Services technology:

save on power demands, space requirements, and maintenance
use the Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer (ROADM) to drive business
provide unsurpassed network integrity and availability
offer customers economical service pricing for powerful technology solutions

How It Works

Verizon's Integrated Optical Service allows for very flexible network configurations. Depending on whether your network requirements demand pure wavelength services or any mix of traditional SONET, Special Access Hi-Cap DS1 and DS3, or the many flavors of Ethernet services, Integrated Optical Service can be configured to meet your needs. The base platform for Integrated Optical Service consists of DWDM ring facility nodes comprised of ROADM devices at the customer premises and Verizon central offices. The ROADM devices multiplex riders on or off the Integrated Optical Service network. Each facility node allows protected or unprotected point-to-point riders to transport lower level signals for service provisioning.

Benefits

Verizon’s Integrated Optical Service offers flexible architecture that serves your customers’ every requirement.
Verizon’s Integrated Optical Service consolidates your network devices now and into the future to simplify network management and improve operational costs and control.
Verizon’s Integrated Optical Service lets you connect multiple, widely dispersed locations so that you can serve customers of all sizes.
Verizon’s Integrated Optical Service is backed by an experienced engineering team and offers around-the-clock network monitoring for unparalleled performance.
Verizon’s Integrated Optical Service affords competitive pricing with cost-effective incremental additions as new applications and protocols are needed.

Applications

Market your Verizon Integrated Optical Service network as a way for your customers to achieve greater continuity in their business operations through resilient access to high bandwidth and cost-conscious allocation of bandwidth between regional data centers.
Offer your Verizon Integrated Optical Service network for efficient network consolidation and convergence so customers can provide multiple services and change easily with evolving technologies that drive business.
Sell your Verizon Integrated Optical Service network as a means of providing scalable connectivity to customers – even customers who require enormous bandwidth capabilities.
Position your Verizon Integrated Optical Service network as a state-of-the-art disaster recovery system to prevent failures that disrupt business operations.
Tout your Verizon Integrated Optical Service network as one of the most technologically advanced means of supporting all levels of voice, video, high definition, storage, backup, and data services.

The Dynamic Optical Network

Verizon’s Integrated Optical Services raises the bar in network performance, convergence and service provisioning. Built on a self-healing architecture providing exceptional network reliability, Integrated Optical Service can be used to construct network backbones to handle high-speed, high-volume voice, video, data, Ethernet, and SAN applications. Let our Integrated Optical Service help you outshine the competition in versatility, capability, efficiency, and cost-effective customer solutions.

Description

Verizon Integrated Optical Service allows for very flexible network configurations. Depending on whether your network requirements demand pure wavelength services or any mix of traditional SONET, Special Access Hi-Cap DS1 and DS3, or the many flavors of Ethernets services, Integrated Optical Service can be configured to meet your needs. The base platform for Integrated Optical Service consists of DWDM ring facility nodes comprised of ROADM devices at the customer designated premises and Verizon central offices. The ROADM devices multiplex riders on or off the Integrated Optical Service network.

Integrated Optical Service Riders (Riders) allow lower level signals to be transported over the Integrated Optical Service network. Riders allow for services to be multiplexed on to or off of the Integrated Optical Service network at locations equipped with a Node. An interface at each of the Nodes allows for connection of the applicable protocol to the CPE. Each Rider may be available on a protected or unprotected basis depending on the protocol being transmitted and the level of redundancy required for the Rider.

When lower level Riders are required, and to assure the efficient utilization of the bandwidth for each wavelength channel, Verizon may establish an Integrated Optical Service Ring-on-Ring or Point-to-Point Facility over the underlying DWDM ring. Each Ring-on-Ring or Point-to-Point Facility would subdivide a wavelength on the main underlying DWDM Ring Facility and allow the flexibility to provide Riders of all levels, speeds, and interfaces without sacrificing the tremendous amount of bandwidth available over your Integrated Optical Service.

Integrated Optical Service also has the capability to provide optical/electrical Riders, such as DS1, DS3, Ethernet 10 Mbps, and 100 Mbps via an Integrated Optical Service Subtending Node Facility (SNF), and/or Integrated Optical Service Asymmetrical Port Facility (APF).

The SNF provides an electrical hand-off of the Rider at the same interface level that is riding the Integrated Optical Service. For example, a DS1 riding the Integrated Optical Service will be handed off via the SNF as an electrical DS1.

The APF aggregates a Rider as part of a higher level optical handoff that is dropped from the Integrated Optical Service. For example, a DS1 riding the Integrated Optical Service will be handed off via the APF as part of an OC3, OC12, or OC48 fiber handoff.

Note: The terms and conditions of certain of the services described above are set forth in full detail in Verizon’s FCC Tariffs (Tariffed Services), while certain other services described above are provided on a private carriage basis (Private Carriage Services). For Tariffed Services, any summary of Verizon’s FCC Tariffs (Tariffs) set forth above is being provided for your convenience, but is not intended to provide a complete description of the terms and conditions of the Tariffs. You should not rely on this summary, and should conduct your own review and analysis of the Tariffs. Any failure or error by Verizon to fully or accurately set forth all relevant terms and conditions of the Tariffs shall not be deemed to bar Verizon from exercising its rights under the Tariffs. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Tariffs shall govern over any inconsistent provision set forth herein. For all Private Carriage Services, the above summary is provided for your information and reference only. The actual terms, conditions, restrictions, limitations and the like for Private Carriage Services will be those set forth in the agreement between the customer and Verizon for such Private Carriage Service and shall govern over any inconsistent provisions set forth herein. All services are not available in all areas, and are subject to availability of facilities and equipment.

Availability

Orders for this service are handled on a contractual basis. Please contact us or call your account manager to discuss your specific needs.

Pricing

Although Integrated Optical Service provides all of these services on such a robust, scalable and flexible architecture, we have focused on keeping the rate structure simple. Thanks to the ROADM platform and its ability to converge various types of Riders, Integrated Optical Service provides one of the most simple rate structures with as few as only 3 rate elements.

Features

Survivability and Reliability - Installed over a resilient, fiber ring architecture enabling highly reliable service, our protected services are backed by a 99.999% availability and 2.5 Hour MTTR SLAs under the contract that Verizon offers.
Flexibility - Our multi-service platform facilitates network convergence by providing the ability to bundle a variety of interfaces on a single fiber backbone.
Scalability - Integrated Optical Service can meet your current and future bandwidth requirements with no “forklift” upgrades required.
Security - Both the facilities and Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer (ROADM) nodes in the Integrated Optical Service design are fully dedicated. The service is proactively monitored around-the-clock. Verizon also offers a standard Customer Service Management (CSM) feature, providing detailed, real-time network performance views.
Cost-Effectiveness - Control costs by consolidating your voice, video, data, and storage networks.