Metro Ethernet
Customer Voice
- Centennial Bank Hldgs
- Highline Public Schools
Centennial Bank of the West is known as The Western Original and was conceived as a "Main Street" bank. Its management team is local, so decisions are made quickly, with a clear understanding of the opportunities and challenges unique to the region. The company's product offerings are extensive, providing all of the banking, investment, and online services that are expected of a full-service financial institution. Today more than 200 employees in seven Northern Colorado cities make up the Centennial banking family.
At Highline Public Schools in Washington State feature-rich media applications are increasingly important for teachers to enhance their own education and for classroom instruction. The existing T-1 lines could not support an expanding array of high-bandwidth tools. A new data warehouse and plans for Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) made the need for increased bandwidth even more urgent.
Case Studies
- Community Bankshares, Inc.
- Highline Public Schools
- The Tech Group
- University of Colorado (CU)
Community Bankshares was using frame relay-based communications, but dropped packets and slow application access speeds lowered the level of customer service that employees could deliver to the banks clients. The hub-and-spoke architecture was also time-consuming to set up and administer.
At Highline Public Schools in Washington State, feature-rich media applications are increasingly important for teachers to enhance their own education and for classroom instruction. The existing T-1 lines could not support an expanding array of high-bandwidth tools. A new data warehouse and plans for Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) made the need for increased bandwidth even more urgent.
The Tech Group specializes in the design and manufacturing of plastic products for the health care and consumer industries. Growing wide area network (WAN ) data traffic began to slow the response times of enterprise applications. The congested T1-based infrastructure further threatened to impact a planned data center relocation and hamper a server consolidation project. To overcome these issues, decision makers chose to upgrade their network to a high-bandwidth, fiber solution.
The network connecting the main data center for the University of Colorado (CU) with its two remote sites had aged, and CU began to look for a more reliable and scalable solution. Security was also a vital issue: the remote sites have departments that handle sensitive University data, and CU wanted a solution that did not need to traverse public, unsecured networks.
Videos and Demos
- IPv6 Overview Part 1: An Introduction
- IPv6 Overview Part 2: Control Cost Throughout the Enterprise
- IPv6 Overview Part 3: Limit the Impact of Change on Your Business
- IPv6 Overview Part 4: Improve Business Continuity
- IPv6 Overview Part 5: How to Effectively Migrate to IPv6
- Metro Ethernet for a More Powerful Network
Making the transition to IPv6 now will ensure that your business keeps pace with the rapid expansion of the Internet and that you and your customers are speaking the same language.
IPv6 also provides a sustained level of reduced operating expense due to overall ease of management and embedded security features, but the benefits do not end there. Learn more about al the ways IPv6 can help save your business money.
The rapid growth of digital information, including an explosion of new devices and evolving security threats can be a serious challenge to your already limited resources. Find out how IPv6 can help you limit the impact of changing demands on your business.
Maintaining an outmoded IT infrastructure will require more and more complicated workarounds like network address translation, which cause delays in service and possible outages for your network. Learn more about how IPv6 can help provide a more consistent and effective network environment.
If you want to make a full migration to native IPv6 for your entire infrastructure, we can do that. Or, if you want to leverage your existing infrastructure on an IPv6 backbone, taking advantage of both scenarios; we can do that too. Find out more about the flexible migration options provided by CenturyLink migration experts.
Upgrading to a more powerful network is not only smart, it's essential to staying ahead of the curve. So keep pace, and switch to a more powerful network quickly and reliably with a Metro Ethernet solution from CenturyLink.
In the News
- Ethernet Enhances the Education Experience
- Utah Education Network Connects Rural and Urban Schools
- Video, telecom network management still challenge fixed line operators
CenturyLink signed a deal with the Utah Education Network to connect 21 of the state's 40 school districts to its statewide fiber-optic network.
The Utah Education Network has teamed up with CenturyLink Communications to deliver high-speed network services to Utah schools.
CenturyLink Communications CTO Pieter Poll spoke with SearchTelecom.com about how the former "Baby Bell" is managing growing Internet traffic from its backbone to access networks.
