SMARTRing
AT&T SMARTRing® service offers you High-speed total service for consolidating all of your traffic on one access service.
With SMARTRing service you get the reliability and survivability that you need. Whether you are transporting voice, video, data traffic, or any combination of the above, SMARTRing service is up to the task.
AT&T SMARTRing service is a SONET based, self-healing metro ring network in which the entire capacity is dedicated to your traffic. SMARTRing is designed to transport DS1, DS3, STS-1, OC-3, OC-12, OC-48, 10 Mbs, 100 Mbs, 1,000 Mbs circuits and Fractional Gig E speeds of 50 Mbs, 150 Mbs, 300 Mbs, 450 Mbs and 600 Mbs between your designated locations.
Components
Backbone
OC-3, OC-12, OC48 and OC-192
Channel Interfaces
DS1, DS3
OC-3, OC-12, OC-48
Ethernet
Point to point – 10 Mbps, 100 Mbps, 1000 Mbps, Fractional 1000 at 50 Mbps, 150 Mbps, 300 Mbps, 450 Mbps, 600 Mbps
Multi-point - (Basic Shared Ethernet LAN service)
Access Links
Virtual Packet Ring
Connection to Metro Ethernet
Basic
Premium – Fixed and Burst
VES
Storage
FICON – 1 G and 2 G
Fibre Channel 100 (1 G)
Fibre Channel 200 (2 G)
SMARTRing® provides SONET reliability (fiber route diversity, 50 ms switching, guarantee) for your Ethernet/Storage connections.
Options that fit your design requirements
- Point to point
- Multi-point
- Connection to Metro Ethernet Network
SMARTRing is flexible and can grow and adapt as your business does, saving you time and money in the long run
Leverage initial SMARTRing investment with additional features
- Backbone growth is in service
- Channel adds are non-invasive
SMARTRing allows you to run multiple services and protocols across one network saving your IT department time to manage other things
Multiple protocols supported over a single architecture/platform including:
- Storage
- Ethernet
- SONET
- TDM
