Broadwing Frame Relay and ATM services offer you a scalable, manageable and cost-effective network solution for all your communications needs. Broadwing's data transport methods are ideal for connecting remote offices without having to plan, build or maintain your own network. Plus, you receive the benefits of Broadwing's all-optical network and award-winning Frame Relay/ATM network platform. Diverse and redundant fiber routes at backbone speeds up to 2.5Gbps (OC48) guarantee fast, secure and reliable transfer of your data.

Frame Relay
Broadwing Frame Relay service enables your business to receive data, voice, video and other multimedia traffic requirements within one network without the cost and inflexibility of a leased line.
• Ideal for connecting local area networks (LANs) and easily scalable to meet your changing business needs.

ATM
Broadwing ATM service supports today's multi-protocol, multi-vendor data environments.
• Seamlessly integrates with frame relay networks and allows you to have one network for voice, video and data.
• The premier technology for wide area networks (WANs) and enterprise networks because of its strength in real-time, delay-sensitive applications.

Easy Migration and Interoperability
With an ATM backbone at the core of our Frame Relay/ATM network, Broadwing creates a trouble-free migration path from lower frame relay speeds to higher ATM speeds as your bandwidth demands increase. Broadwing offers true frame relay to ATM services interworking (FRASI), giving you the ability to have frame relay and ATM nodes within the same WAN.

Flexibility
Broadwing offers a variety of connection, port and pricing options so you can customize the best solution for your needs:
• Pay for what you use with flexible class of service (CoS) options:
   • Constant bit rate (CBR), variable bit rate real-time (VBR-rt)
   • Variable bit rate non real-time (VBR-nrt) and unspecified bit rate (UBR)

• Diverse connectivity options:
   • Symmetrical permanent virtual circuit (PVC) and asymmetrical PVC
• Variety of port speeds ranging from 56 Kbps to 622 Mbps (OC12)

Broad Coverage
Broadwing has extensive domestic and worldwide reach to address all of your global networking needs.
    • No need to manage multiple wide area networks - Broadwing can offer seamless connectivity via Frame Relay to more 70 countries and via ATM to more 30 countries.

Access Solutions
Broadwing offers an array of local access alternatives to meet all of your connectivity requirements. Options include traditional (TDM) access, LEC UNI and DSL to match the cost efficiency and reliability needs of your business.

Guaranteed Performance
• Broadwing's aggressive service level agreements (SLAs) guarantee your network performance at the core, at the edge and overseas.

• All Frame Relay/ATM customers receive network-based Web reporting to monitor throughput data including average throughput per permanent virtual circuit (PVC), percentage of committed information rate (CIR) utilization, and circuit availability information. We also offer performance reports with end-to-end statistics and data obtained from international sites.

Increased Reliability, Security and Speed
• Broadwing's all-optical core transport network sends your traffic at virtually the speed of light.
   • Our optical technology drastically reduces latency by eliminating the need for optical signals to be converted to electrical for regeneration and then converted back to optical for transmission.
   • Superior monitoring, lower cost structure, and faster turn-up through seamless integration of our all-Alcatel Frame Relay/ATM network.

Disaster Recovery
• Broadwing's disaster recovery solution provides a backup mode that automatically reroutes network traffic to a contingency site.
• Protects against catastrophic disasters including faulty CPE, routers, host computers, local loops or problems with local exchange carriers' (LECs') facilities.

Enhanced Frame Relay Service
• Broadwing also offers fully managed Frame Relay Service ensuring that your network is fully accessible and operating at peak performance by providing:
• Proactive monitoring of data service units (DSUs)
     • Network engineers continuously monitor your DSUs 24x7x365 for optimal network performance. Your network is proactively monitored to isolate, resolve and prevent faults before they affect your business.
• Intelligent Service Level Verification (SLV) reports
     • Web-based reports offer a detailed look at your network performance and enable you to verify that your network is performing to the standards set forth in our SLAs. You are also able to track your network performance and monitor potential network overloading, which assists you in capacity management and allows you to plan for future network growth.