Point to point connectivity provides a way for your company to connect its physical office location(s) to one another, the Internet, and to critical business equipment at a data facility through fast, scalable, flexible, reliable, dedicated bandwidth fiber.
Because the connection is dedicated to your applications, employees, and customers, you can meet the demands of bandwidth-intensive applications and routines without disrupting internal employees’ needs in a much more reliable, flexible, and secure way that is not possible with typical shared connections. These services provide low latency connectivity that is reliable, secure, and cost effective. You can extend your private network across data centers without compromising on performance or security.
| Common Point to Point Applications | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ethernet Private Line (EPL) | Ethernet Virtual Private Line (EVPL) | |||
| Secure Data Network for Remote Sites | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Replacement for traditional private lines (TDM) | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Secure Disaster Recovery & Backup | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Private & Hybrid Cloud Connectivity | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Integrate Voice, Video, Data Services | -- | ✓ | ||
Ethernet Private Line (EPL) is a high-speed data network connection designed to supply high-performance, secure connectivity, with high quality of service between two sites. These layer 2 network connections are perfect for businesses looking to replace or upgrade traditional point to point circuits (T1, DS3, OC3) with a lower cost fiber optic service.
EPL circuits offer exceptionally low latency, dedicated bandwidth, and security. This is ideal for applications where latency is not an option, such as a WAN connection to a data center, private cloud connectivity, or voice/video applications. Private lines also offer minimal packet loss, providing high-quality, and constant connectivity when it matters most.
Ethernet Virtual Private Line is a high-speed, virtual network link, that gives point to point data connectivity delivered via fiber optics. These layer 2 networks are designed to provide a high-performance, secure connection that delivers minimal packet loss and low latency with high quality.
In general, EVPL circuits are used for Wide Area Network (WAN) connectivity, linking multiple offices, data centers, and cloud infrastructure together into one network. EVPL may be used to deliver voice, video, Internet, and data services together over the same point to point connection.
