EMBARQ™ MPLS VPN

The EMBARQ™ MPLS VPN solution offers a wide range of features and services that can be tailored to fit your unique needs, including:

Flexible Access Options

• Flexible Port Speeds -- from 64k to GigE (1000M)
• Bundles with Routers, Equipment Maintenance and Managed Network Services
• Industry leading SLAs for availability, delay, packet loss, and jitter
• Nationwide availability

Network-Based Value-Added Services including

• Secure Internet access
• Secure Remote access
• Secure Extranet

Other great EMBARQ™ MPLS VPN features include

• A Private MPLS VPN service over an IP/MPLS VPN backbone
• Security equivalent to that provided by Frame Relay or ATM
• Standards-based, RFC2547bis complaint
• Topology that adapts to any network (Hub & Spoke, Mesh)
• The ability to prioritize time sensitive traffic using up to 6 CoS queues at no additional charge
• Multiple Routing Protocol Support - static, BGP, OSPF, and EIGRP

Today's business networks need to support an ever-growing list of requirements:

• Connect branch locations to improve the internal flow of information
• Provide scalability to move and change as businesses restructure by simplifying network integration and management
• Provide connectivity to key partners for resource sharing
• Enable real-time bandwidth-demanding applications like voice and video

Whatever your specific business requirements, EMBARQ™ MPLS VPN offers a breadth of network-based, value-added services that eliminate excess charges and complicated budget planning.

EMBARQ™ MPLS VPN delivers:

Flexibility - Tailor the service for your enterprise without incremental capital investments. EMBARQ™ MPLS VPN offers a full suite of optional network-based value-added services, including secure Internet access, remote user access and extranet connectivity via IPsec (IP security) CPE VPN hybrid networking.

Performance - No matter how much real-time traffic you need support for, you get real-time class of service with no setup or recurring fees. Performance is supported by service level agreements (SLAs) that are backed up with generous service credits.

Great Value - No additional charges for Class of Service, multicasting or SLAs. As a network-based solution with routing managed in the cloud, less complex CPE is required, and EMBARQ™ has no requirements for CPE management.

High Security - Your network is completely isolated, and no component of your network is accessible by or visible to unauthorized parties or the public Internet.

Disaster Recovery - Inherent capabilities provided by any-to-any connectivity and network-based value-added services with carrier-grade survivability that includes firewall and remote access solutions.

Simplified Migration Path - Support for hybrid networking provides the option to migrate from traditional frame relay to MPLS VPN, in addition to expanding reach to off-net locations via seamless internetworking with premise-based IPSec VPNs.