It's not just towns and cities that are fed up with the high cost of bandwidth and lousy service from the big telcos. More and more, enterprises are deploying their own private WANs across leased raw fiber which gives them complete control over their own destiny. Companies like Celion Networks make it possible to do this in a cost effective way with drop-dead simple long distance DWDM gear. How'd you like a 10 Gbps pipe between LA and Chicago that easily scales incrementally to 100 Gbps without calling your telco every single time you need a few Gbps more? That, my friend, is control!
Of course, enterprises with high bandwidth needs have typically had to pay through the nose to lease capacity (redundant or not) from the huge phone conglomerates. Now they can reasonably buy their own 100Gbps+ equipment to connect data centers and even justify redundant links due to the cost effectiveness of new enterprise-friendly applications of tried-and-true carrier-grade technology. Celion Networks, for example, ships such systems.
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It's not just towns and cities that are fed up with the high cost of bandwidth and lousy service from the big telcos. More and more, enterprises are deploying their own private WANs across leased raw fiber which gives them complete control over their own destiny. Companies like Celion Networks make it possible to do this in a cost effective way with drop-dead simple long distance DWDM gear. How'd you like a 10 Gbps pipe between LA and Chicago that easily scales incrementally to 100 Gbps without calling your telco every single time you need a few Gbps more? That, my friend, is control!
Of course, enterprises with high bandwidth needs have typically had to pay through the nose to lease capacity (redundant or not) from the huge phone conglomerates. Now they can reasonably buy their own 100Gbps+ equipment to connect data centers and even justify redundant links due to the cost effectiveness of new enterprise-friendly applications of tried-and-true carrier-grade technology. Celion Networks, for example, ships such systems.