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FAQs: Can you tell me a little about the Angelwire Network? Angelwire runs off a redundant 100% fiber optic Bi-directional OC-12 backbone off the WorldCom OC-48 Detroit SONET network with dual entrances into Big Net's Network Operations Control Center (NOCC) located in Sterling Heights, Michigan. Off of the backbone, Big Net maintains a 45Mbps access facility to UUNET of Detroit and a 45Mbps connection to SAVVIS for Internet Access. The Big Net network has inherent infrastructure, electronic, and power redundancy. Big Net maintains peering with WorldCom/UUNET's MAE-East facility along with redundancy access routes through the Chicago and Cleveland Internet National Access Points (NAP's) for diversity and inherent redundancy. In addition, via SAVVIS, Big Net has built diversity to the MAE West for additional route diversity and alternate Internet backbone integrity. Big Net maintains a backbone and network platform that is a combination of a shared/clear channel infrastructure. With our OC-12/540Mbps concatenated network backbone, we are able to bring corporate users from their facilities via the MFS/WorldCom network to our Network Internet Gateway via a shared infrastructure. However, via our Cascade 9000 High Speed Serial Interconnection (HSSI), customers are uplinked to our Cisco 7000 gateway allowing Internet access port speeds to be set at the subscribed too access rates via the Cisco BGP4 protocol. In essences, from the customer site to our network platform, the customer will access the Big Net platform via a shared OC-12/540Mbps infrastructure. Once into our network, Internet Gateway access is clocked at the port speed the customer subscribes too (i.e. 1.54Mbps, 3Mbps, 4Mbps, 10Mbps, etc.). At this point, via the (HSSI) uplink from the Cascade 9000, Internet Port speeds are set per customer and are clear channel access speeds based on the subscribed port speeds. Big Net does not over subscribe gateway access to the Internet. |
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