National Grid Telecoms - Optical wavelengths

Optical connectivity services

Leased circuits including wide area Ethernet at a minimum of 1Gbit/s
Switched photonic DWDM optical core network platforms which are capable of delivering carrier class optical services from 1 Gbit/s to 100 Gbit/s
Benefit from a range of port speeds and interfaces with standard or resilient options complimented by third party sub-contract extension services and national connectivity through our alliance partners to industry standards

Full duplex dedicated direct optical channel over DWDM technology with choice of LANPhy, WANPhy or fibre Channel SAN at 1Gbit, 2 Gbit, 4Gbit and 10Gbit and 100Gbit bandwidths
A resilient and secure core network with open standards that will scale and meet the requirements of future network requirements
Many serviced existing and carrier co-located points of presence, regional ISP Data Centre connectivity including Storage area network solutions and cable landing station access
Management of the necessary services to provide a complete “turnkey” end to end solution

Options of LANPhy, WANPhy or Fibre channel SAN
Microwave Radio Solutions
You can also benefit from local access solutions utilising microwave radio for backhaul and remote site services to our core network, providing native TDM, Native Ethernet or a mixture of both

Service Level Agreement

Connection Type	Desktop Quote Time from Enquiry	Survey Quote Time from Enquiry	RFS Time from Order	Availability Standard	Availability Protected	Fault Response	Target Fix Time
	Working days	Working days	Working days	% pa	% pa	Hours	Hours
DWDM Optical Channel	3	8	30-45	99.95	99.995	Immediate	4

Optical wavelengths