MCI Private IP - MPLS Based IP VPN For Maximum Performance And Reliability in EMEA
Most expansive and feature rich VPN service leveraging core strengths in security, convergence and managed services in Europe, The Middle East and Africa
MCI's Private IP services portfolio addresses customer demand for more communications flexibility and increased network utilization. As network technology moves to converged voice, data and Internet offerings, customers today need a reliable high performance communications platform delivering the advantages of security and service management of private MPLS based networks combined with the efficiency and flexibility of modern IP based virtual private networks. MCI recognizes these customer requirements with its efforts to enhance the coverage, availability and service level features of its private IP product offerings.
Product Facts:
- MCI's Private IP service is available in more then 70 countries worldwide in ASPAC, EMEA, North and South America leveraging MCI's global, facilities based network. In Europe, the service is available in more then 25 countries in all major business areas. The service will provide access to an MPLS based network1 with IP quality management and various QoS levels as well as global industry leading Service Level Agreements.
- MCI's Private IP service is ideal for new and existing VPN customers wanting to extend their network utilization, to secure existing investments into classic Frame Relay and ATM based corporate network architectures and to migrate to modern and advanced IP based communication solutions at an economically feasible pace. Thus, enterprises are able to simply validate their network requirements for new business processes and applications and extend their infrastructure capabilities accordingly.
- MCI's Private IP comes complete with customer premise equipment (CPE) and software, ongoing maintenance, service management support, and premier troubleshooting capabilities in a fully managed and a customer managed version. The service is available for a low monthly fee per circuit.
- Private IP includes global industry leading Service Level Agreements defining network availability (on-net and off-net), network latency and Packet delivery rates for different QoS classes (Gold, Silver and Bronze) as well as defined mean times to repair (MTTR) in the unlikely case of network issues.
- Private IP is an ideal platform for modern converged and managed communications solutions and applications such as IP telephony, multimedia streaming and collaboration as well as network based computing and service provision. With MCI's capabilities to interconnect private IP network architectures with other services such as Remote Access, public IP VPNs and network based security and firewall services over the company's Secure Interworking Gateway (SIG), customers are able to integrate products and services across all platforms to maximize efficiency in their business processes.
MCI offers the most extensive suite of secure VPN and data networking services to meet every customer's need and management preference - from traditional private line, frame relay and ATM networks to advanced VPN solutions - all backed by the highest performance guarantees. Each runs over MCI's award-winning global IP and facilities-based data networks and is a part of the full continuum of integrated communication products and services MCI provides to enterprises of all sizes around the world.
1 Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) / Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) IP VPN according to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Request for Comment (RFC) 2547 de facto standard
