The need for data connectivity across the WAN/MAN is continuously on the rise. Enterprises with geographically distributed offices seek to expand their Ethernet-based LANs to connect remote branches to their headquarters, and to connect their business to the Internet.
To accomplish this, ethernet has become the de facto networking standard for several reasons:
- It is flexible and relatively low-cost;
- It has the promise of more bandwidth for your money;
- It has an ability to upgrade bandwidth quickly and the ability to allocate the exact bandwidth needed.
- Its simplicity and familiarity mean reduced training and administration costs within the enterprise.
Running multi-site, time-sensitive, mission-critical applications, such as ERP, SCM, CRM, VoIP, Storage Networking, and Video Conferencing, demands an increase in bandwidth and stringent SLA-compliance. Failure or low performance of these critical applications is not acceptable. Current generation Ethernet platforms designed for the LAN lack scalability, reliability, and the QoS mechanisms needed for these applications.
ECI's solution delivers on the necessary requirements for mission critical applications, such as guaranteed low latency, high availability and managing the business services in a way that makes it easy to deploy and supervise.
ECI's product portfolio supports a wide range of business customer services. These include TDM, Ethernet leased lines, IP-VPN, VPLS, lambda/sub-lambda, and storage services.