Monday 21 February 2011

Network information

Cablevision also owns Lightpath, a company with an optical fiber network providing service to the New York metro area. It competes and presents itself as being an equal but cheaper alternative to T1, T3, Frame Relay, dedicated fiber, and leased line products based on time-division multiplexing, governed by service level agreement and offered by incumbent phone companies. Lightpath sells Metro Ethernet based dedicated Internet access, multi/single point to multi/single point Layer 2 metropolitan LAN connections, and voice services. Cablevision Lightpath has an extensive peering network with Points of Presence in Newark, New Jersey; New York City; Ashburn, Virginia; Los Angeles, California; and Chicago, Illinois, although the service is only available in the NYC metropolitan area (NY, NJ, and CT). Lightpath is a carrier grade service with a 99.99% uptime service level agreement[3], and dedicated/guaranteed bandwidth, it should not be confused with the HFC-based Optimum Online service which is best effort and has no guarantees about its performance or reliability or uptime.

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