Yipes Launches Wide-Area Optical Ethernet Services
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2/18/2000 San Francisco-based Yipes is building out the first end-to-end Ethernet-based regional networks across the U.S. The company's IP-over-fiber architecture enables customers to buy the speeds and services desired, rather than fitting into the traditional telco transmission hierarchy. Instead of limiting selections to ISDN (128k), T1 (1.54 Mbps), DS3 (45 Mbps), or OC-3 (155 Mbps), Yipes provides bandwidth in 1-megabit increments from 1 Mbps all the way up to 1 Gbps.
Equally important, additional bandwidth can be added quickly to meet changing business needs, eliminating the wait for new facilities. The network uses native IP and Ethernet protocols, eliminating the need to interface with ISDN, frame relay, ATM, SONET, or other legacy protocols. Customer data moves more efficiently via native data protocols without having to be converted back and forth. Fewer protocol conversions and less equipment result in fewer potential points of failure on the Yipes network.
Two specific services were introduced today as part of Yipes' all IP-over-fiber networks: Yipes NET links company LANs seamlessly to the Internet at customer-specified speeds up to 1 Gbps; and Yipes MAN Regional Area IP service for connecting LANs at speeds up to 1 Gbps. With Yipes MAN, company LANs can be extended to other business locations, providing the speed and bandwidth required for optimizing network performance. Both services offer aggressive SLAs including less than 10 milliseconds (ms) of latency within Yipes regional networks and less than 80 ms of latency nationally.
Services are available today in suburban San Francisco (Palo Alto), southern California (Riverside), and suburban Denver (Fort Collins and Longmont). Plans call for Yipes to have a nationwide footprint by the end of this year, with services available in 18 cities coast-to-coast. |
