Services for the Carrier Community

The extreme reliability of the TANet transmission network and its virtually unlimited capacity, coupled with the cost efficiencies inherent in its build and design make it an extremely practical proposition for regional, national and international carriers wishing to expand the coverage of their own networks. Managed bandwidth is available using SDH. Optical wavelengths can be provisioned at STM16 on a national and STM16 or 64 on a metropolitan basis. Ethernet services can be provided nationally from 1Mbit/sec to 1Gbit/sec. IP VPN and ATM services are also available in point to point, point to multipoint or any to any configurations. Many of the TANet points of presence are suitable for co-location of carrier equipment, thus making the TANet backbone an extremely cost effective way for operators to gain national coverage.

The TANet national and metropolitan networks also go where carriers and ISPs need to go including all of the most popular telehotel facilities and internet exchanges.

Fibernet offer fully managed services, including the procurement and management of suitable tail circuits for "last mile" connection from TANet points of presence to customer facilities. Based upon regulated "Partial Private Circuit" infrastructure, Fibernet's "TANet Access Private Circuits" provide what is probably the most cost effective leased line termination service in the UK.

Web based ordering, provision and problem management make the operational process part of doing business with Fibernet a lot easier.

Going national

Building out a national network at a cost base lower than that of the competition enables voice operators to pass the saving straight on to their customers - a real benefit in such a tariff-conscious market. In the voice market, it used to be the case that in order to get interconnects with BT that delivered termination revenues that enabled effective competition, an operator had to look at placing switches geographically close to the interconnect switching centres (DMSU/DJSU).

While volumes remain modest in early phases of business development, the cost of this approach is usually prohibitive. By bringing interconnects into Fibernet PoPs that are close to interconnect switching centres, then using TANet national transmission services to backhaul the traffic to a central switch or switches, these early high up front costs can be avoided. As and when volumes permit and costs are justifiable, switches can be collocated in TANet PoPs, allowing rapid market entry and re-use of circuits.

Trading minutes

For operators whose business involves termination of traffic internationally, Fibernet's London and Frankfurt Carrier Rings make a compelling business case. Direct connectivity to nearly 100 international operators with circuits provisionable overnight provides access for Europe's most dynamic minutes trading community.

The Fibernet Carrier Ring customer community extends to more than 100 permanently connected operators, exchanging in excess of 30 billion voice minutes per annum. + read more		The LCR is a network service designed to provide London based carriers with a single high capacity, low cost, hub for the interchange of voice and data traffic with other carriers. + read more

The ipLCR is an extension of the London Carrier Ring and provides a high volume gateway between TDM (SS7) and IP (SIP) traffic. + read more		The FCR is a network service designed to provide Frankfurt based carriers with a single high capacity, low cost, hub for the interchange of voice and data traffic with other carriers. + read more