LAN Extension Service (LES)
Overview
Put Our Fiber Behind Your Ethernet Access
Need a cost-effective solution for providing customers competitively priced Ethernet-based services?
Look no further than Verizon. Our LAN Extension Service empowers you with the fiber needed to feed Ethernet capabilities -- wherever fiber facilities are available.
LAN Extension Service includes Ethernet terminations at customer locations and your POP or Expanded Interconnection Service (EIS) collocation. Verizon gives you the means. You control your own switching platform to meet customers' needs.
How It Works
Verizon provisions your service over dedicated 2-pair fiber between customer desired locations. We install a fiber converter interface at customer locations for controlling the data rate at 10 Mbps, 100 Mbps or 1 Gbps. You control the switching and your customers' converters.
LES has distance limitations, based on db loss, directly associated with distance and outside loop characteristics. Coordination with your Account Team and fiber length qualification by our Engineering Group will ensure quality implementation and service.
In the absence of a fiber facility, a Special Construction ICB may be required for service provisioning.
Benefits
- Verizon's dependable fiber network prevents long build-out times and saves you capital dollars.
- Making Ethernet services available to customers rounds out your portfolio and generates new revenue at the same time.
- Verizon's expert installation, support and high quality of service standards promote customer satisfaction and loyalty to your company.
Applications
- Use LAN Extension Service to provide Ethernet-based services to customers.
- Leverage the service to get a step ahead of your competitors.
Muscle for Ethernet
Stretch your capabilities -- all the way to your bottom line -- with Verizon's LAN Extension Service.
Lan Extension Service
Description
Verizon's LAN Extension Service (LES) gives you the ability to quickly and economically offer Ethernet-based broadband services to your customers. With this fiber-based service, you can provide bandwidth at increments of 10 Mbps, 100 Mbps and 1Gbps without incurring major capital costs and with minimal ongoing operating expenses.
Because you perform the Ethernet switching, you maintain control over the platform. You even control the converters that we install at your customers' locations.
Availability
Effective as of May 31, 2007, Verizon is grandfathering the LAN Extension Service (LES) in its FCC Tariff Nos. 1, 11, 14 and 16 (Tariffs). Last year, Verizon received forbearance from certain common carrier regulation for several packet-switched broadband services, as well as non-TDM-based optical networking, optical hubbing, and optical transmission services (Forbearance). In accordance with this Forbearance relief, Verizon will now offer a service comparable to LES under a private carriage arrangement.
Following the grandfathering of LES in the Tariffs, if you wish to place any new orders for LES, you will need to enter into a private carriage arrangement with Verizon for a comparable service.
Learn more about Forbearance or contact your Account Manager for details.
Pricing
Pricing for new orders of this service are handled on a contractual basis. Please contact us or call your account manager to discuss your particular needs.
DISCLAIMER: 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. However, 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.
Features
- Minimizes the investment required to provide high-speed, Ethernet-based services to your customers.
- Greatly reduces the risks of offering Ethernet access to your customers because Verizon provides the fiber network.
- Dramatically compresses your time to market, a key advantage in meeting the rapidly growing demand for Ethernet-based services
- Experienced Verizon installation and support personnel plus high Verizon Quality of Service (QoS) standards enhance customer satisfaction
This special access service includes Ethernet terminations at your end-user locations and at your Point of Presence (POP) or Expanded Interconnection Service (EIS) collocation. You perform the switching, giving you total control over the platform, including the converter at your customer's premises. We provision LES over dedicated 2-strand fiber between Customer Desired Locations (CDL). LES includes a fiber converter interface that we install at your customer's location. It controls the data rate -- 10 Mbps, 100 Mbps or 1 Gbps.
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