By using copper and fiber connections as its infrastructure backbone, Qwest Metropolitan Optical Ethernet (QMOE) gives you the chance to experience top-quality Ethernet connections that are cost-effective and reliable. QMOE was designed specifically to help you utilize data applications that are highly important in facilitating the movement of your business projects and procedures – send large data files from multipoint to multipoint locations, connect to a shared Internet provider, access hosting for files and mail servers, and connect via voice and video applications.

Utilizing copper and fiber infrastructures to create a network connection that spans from a local area network to a wider metropolitan or regional area network through Ethernet has become more economical than to setting up fiber optic cables. When compared to traditional synchronous optical network (SONET) based infrastructures, fiber connections have been shown to not only be less expensive, but more flexible and easier to upgrade; this is because when you have a pre-existing fiber Ethernet setup, converting the breadth and width of that network connection is simpler.

A low-cost, versatile solution

By combining Ethernet connections with copper and fiber technologies throughout a variety of networks, QMOE provides a solution that enables you to set up a LAN-to-LAN connection. This lets you connect your system with another network across town, creating a unique Wide Access Network (WAN) that offers an easily upgradeable, secure bandwidth – and at a lower cost.

Since your traffic isn’t restricted to the standard SONET bandwidth increments, you can connect to a variety of multipoint service organizations, helping you prioritize traffic through a completely native Ethernet network connection.

Customers are also given a high-quality connectivity solution that allows multiple virtual Ethernet ports to be opened at the same time. Given that the QMOE’s standard bandwidth options run from 5Mbps to a whopping 1Gbps, you can rest assured you’re getting plenty of data to and from your network.

Features and Benefits

• A completely meshed native Ethernet network
• Service configurations: Point-to-point and multipoint
• Flexible bandwidth options ranging from 5 Mbps up to 1 Gbps
• Central office connectivity with SST, SHNS, GeoMax and colocations
• Quality of Service (QoS) option that provides four methods of traffic prioritization
• Creates a productive network setup by helping generate virtual work groups across WANs
• Flexible network connection you can easily adjust to the bandwidth requirements of your LAN
• Fast service guarantees easy installation and almost zero downtime upon upgrading your service
• Secure and reliable service that is backed up with Service Level Agreements (SLAs) which cover up to 99.999 percent availability with quality of service (QoS)