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Choosing the Right Metropolitan Ring for Your Business

Overview Metropolitan ring solutions consolidate network access facilities for multiple locations through a single high-speed ring network while reducing overall access costs.

Two optical standards are used today with ring architectures.

Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) consolidates transport services among three or more locations and can also be used to improve security and reliability.

Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) addresses these same requirements, but can also support more protocol options, a Storage Area Network, preferred protection options, or other bandwidth-heavy applications.

Download this white paper to learn which is right for your organization.

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Publisher	AT&T	File Format	HTML & PDF
Date Published	January 2007	Downloads	10
Format	White Papers
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