4Connections Brings Intelligence To Dark Fiber Solutions

The enhanced management capabilities of IFS allow for security and quality control, while ensuring the least possible end-to-end latency for mission- critical data. These features include customers' ability to self-monitor the 4Connections' fiber quality and network availability, providing complete data security and reliability. The IFS is also designed to solve the circuit engineering issues that are becoming more apparent as circuit bandwidth continues to expand into 10-gigabit circuits and beyond. In addition, every Intelligent Fiber Solution is individually engineered for C-Band loss compensation and dispersion with amplification provided mid-span to reduce noise.

"4Connections Intelligent Fiber Solution brings end-to-end fiber management and monitoring right to the customer's premise," states Bill Kosnik, Director of Optical Engineering for 4Connections. "This is accomplished without compromising bandwidth, flexibility or security, through the addition of an Optical Supervisory Channel (OSC). This improved monitoring capability translates into enhanced network management and proactive, instead of reactive, problem determination."

By using the OSC, the 4Connections Network Operations Center (NOC) has the ability to monitor the condition of their clients' fiber 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. For clients, this translates into maximized uptime for their mission-critical communications. 4Connections also provides the customer with a portal into the 4Connections' NOC for monitoring purposes and additionally, clients can monitor their on-premises equipment connected to the circuit.

Leveraging those attributes in the development of the IFS, 4Connections and Ciena designed the solution to ensure the cost-effective, reliable delivery of optical communications, regardless of distance or data rate.

"Our collaboration with 4Connections to bring IFS to market was a natural fit with the attributes of our FlexSelect Architecture and CN 4200 platform," said Theresa Caragol, Senior Managing Director, Global Alliances at Ciena. "As the network specialist, we are committed to innovation that helps customers overcome their challenges while enabling greater cost efficiency and performance. The IFS from 4Connections is a great illustration of those principles."

For more information, please visit http://www.4connections.net.

About 4Connections, LLC:

Headquartered inParsippany, New Jersey, 4Connections, LLC is a broadband technology enabler of advanced voice, data and video applications that provides first and last mile fiber capabilities utilizing unique and diverse right of ways. Launched in 2001, the 4Connections team has constructed hundreds of miles of fiber cable inNew Jersey and thousands of fiber miles throughoutthe United States. The company's mission is to enable the deployment of broadband technologies by providing the fiber infrastructure for voice, data and video applications to travel at the speed of light. For more info, please visit http://www.4connections.net.

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