The GigaMAN service by AT&T is their premiere gigabit Ethernet service designed to help you run an effective and dedicated Ethernet network. Optical fiber technology creates a fast point-to-point network connection that connects your local area network to an area network with a wider coverage. This service is powerful enough to send simultaneous data transfers throughout a network that spans a metropolitan and even a regional area.
GigaMAN works similar to an adapter. It copies your LAN protocol, then simulates and uses the exact same protocol to connect to WANs. By doing this, GigaMAN lets you use the full potential of your existing LAN while transmitting and dispersing the data you send throughout your network.
Whether you’re trying to connect to the building across the street or to an office across the city, GigaMAN gets it done. This service lets you transmit SONET payloads at 1Gbps, a speed that’s twenty two times faster than your average DS3 service.
GigaMAN works by connecting your Ethernet switches. The existing switches are connected via dedicated single-mode optical fiber cables. Throughout the connections are sections called demarcation points where specialized fiber repeaters are installed. This technology is the same interface used for both multi-mode and single-mode optical fibers, and uses a standard stick-and-click connection to serve as a demarcation for where the network terminating equipment are.
Service Features
Both GigaMAN and DecaMAN come with top-quality service features that are tailored to meet the heavy networking requirements of most networking systems today.
Depending on your specific network needs, you can choose from the standard GigaMAN service, ranging from 1000Base-SX and 1000Base-LX single mode services. Or, if you need something that’s even more powerful, the DecaMAN services offer high gigabit levels of network speed. This includes the 10GBase-LR that gives you a service option of a physical LAN with 1310nm of single mode fiber optics; or the 10GBase-LW service, which gives you a WAN with physical 1210nm single mode fiber optics.
Using wavelength division multiplexing, AT&T can implement a network architectural design that will deliver multiple circuits over the same fiber optic pair. This serves as a redundancy measure to conserve the facility size that is needed to implement the system. AT&T engineers will design the system to meet with your current network needs, and will be on hand to provide the necessary equipment required by the network upon installation.
If you have pre-existing network equipment, they will utilize it to improve the speed of installation and the quality of service you will be getting out of your network.
Why choose AT&T
GigaMAN and DecaMAN high-speed Ethernet are two of the best private-line options in the market today. In terms of product breadth and stability, you are assured that whatever service you get will be the most robust Ethernet solution your business will ever experience.
You won’t ever have to worry about your network’s performance – AT&T monitors your network 24/7, because you can’t have a network that crashes when you need it most.
