By PR Newswire
Pacnet today launched Pacnet SmartTransport, Asia's first international private line service with flexible protection options to address the growing demand for uninterrupted network connectivity.
“With more business-critical applications now moving into the ‘cloud', the demand for increased network protection is escalating as organizations are realizing the growing cost and impact of network downtime to their business,” said Wilfred Kwan, Chief Technology Officer of Pacnet. “Pacnet SmartTransport brings to the market a unique protected international private line connectivity service that offers customers the flexibility of choosing between three levels of protection, to meet their need for increased network resilience.”
Through the highest grade of protection called “1:1 Protection”, Pacnet SmartTransport enables almost instantaneous (Note 1) automatic network restoration across a dedicated alternative network path should a network segment experience disruption, allowing business operations to continue uninterrupted. This premium service is also delivered with Pacnet's industry- leading availability and latency service level agreements (SLAs).
A more cost-effective network protection is available through “M:N Shared Protection”, which offers one dedicated alternative network path to support up to three network circuits between two locations. During a network incident, traffic will be automatically routed onto the alternative network path typically within seconds and the service will also be offered with availability and latency SLAs.
Pacnet SmartTransport is also offered with “Auto Reroute Protection”, which will reroute traffic on alternative paths with available capacity, and is delivered with SLAs to guarantee end-to-end network availability.
At the heart of the new service is the Automatically Switched Optical Network (ASON) technology embedded across Pacnet's extensive submarine cable network across the region. ASON, coupled with the unique meshed architecture of Pacnet's EAC-C2C submarine cable network, enables Pacnet to deliver intelligent network protection at various levels of resiliency.
For less critical network applications, Pacnet offers unprotected private line services which provides competitive point of presence (POP) to POP connectivity and the scalability to upgrade to a protected service should a more resilient network infrastructure be required.
Pacnet SmartTransport is available now in Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore with coverage to be expanded to the US, Korea and Taiwan in 2010.
About Pacnet
Named “Company of the Year for Excellence in Growth” by Frost & Sullivan in 2009 and “Best Wholesale Carrier” at the Telecom Asia Awards 2009, Pacnet is Asia's leading independent telecommunications service provider, formed from the operational merger of Asia Netcom and Pacific Internet. Pacnet owns and operates EAC-C2C, the region's largest privately-owned submarine cable network at 36,800 km, with a design capacity of 10.24 Tbps. The company offers a comprehensive portfolio of industry leading IP-based solutions for carriers, large enterprises and SMEs. Pacnet is headquartered in Hong Kong and Singapore, with offices in all key markets in Asia and North America. For more information, please visit:http://www.pacnet.com/.
