Metro-Express &
Metro-Express Plus

Metro-Express

A single wavelength service delivered over dedicated fibre.

Interconnection of office LAN’s are becoming increasingly important in today’s working environment. Previously, installations of MAN/WAN technologies have often been difficult with the need of costly interface cards, which are usually unique to this environment and have often resulted in bandwidth bottlenecks.

Metro-Express provides a fully managed solution for customers who do not have the in-house skills, equipment or desire to light and manage a metropolitan network themselves.

Metro-Express is provisioned as a point-to-point, single wavelength service, delivered across AboveNet’s London Fibre Network. The Metro-Express modules used to light the service are located at each of the customer premises; both are managed remotely by AboveNet’s Network Management Centre (NMC).

In today’s corporate environment where mixtures of protocols have been adopted for many different applications, Metro-Express enables a one-stop solution. As well as the ability to support a wide variety of the most commonly used protocols at ever increasing capacities; Metro-Express is also able to tailor redundancy and resilience levels to satisfy each customer’s individual business requirements.

Delivered as a secure, completely private solution, Metro-Express enables the delivery of data across a diverse platform of transport speeds including fast or Gigabit Ethernet, STM-1, STM-4, STM-16 and Fibre Channel.

Metro-Express Plus

Multiple services delivered over dedicated fibre.

Deploying services using optical wavelength technology is fast becoming common place. As data capacity requirements increase on a daily basis and the data transfer between sites grows, the demand for bandwidth capacity within the metro area is being driven upwards.

It’s becoming increasingly important for businesses deploying new network infrastructures to know they have the ability to expand their bandwidth capacity on demand. Creating networks that allow your bandwidth capacity to grow, as your business needs grow, is the flexible and economical way of delivering bandwidth to your business.

Metro-Express Plus is a multiple wavelength service enabling a number of simultaneous protocols to be transported over a dedicated pair of AboveNet fibres.

By installing a point-to-point service once, you benefit by simply upgrading the number of wavelengths you take when your business requirements grow. Metro-Express Plus enables Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel, STM-1, STM-4 and STM-16 protocols all of which can be combined to match your requirements.

Benefits of Metro-Express & Metro-Express Plus

Scalable Solution
Metro-Express & Express Plus provides a scalable upgrade path by enabling the easy deployment of additional wavelengths as business requirements grow.

Tailored Solution
Variations of six speeds are available and can be configured in any combination, enabling a completely bespoke solution to be built according to the businesses needs.

Fully Managed
Managed remotely, the Metro-Express services enables peace of mind and leaves you safe in the knowledge that any faults will be dealt with quickly and efficiently by our engineers.

Secure, Private Solution
Each Metro-Express solution is delivered on a dedicated pair of AboveNet fibres, ensuring the complete privacy and security of data transport.