Brief: MCI expands Ethernet for business customers

Computerworld - MCI Inc. today unveiled new Ethernet services for businesses and outlined a road map of services to come in the next year.
The offerings are intended to give businesses an economical and flexible way to to extend their LANs to IP-enabled WANs, MCI officials said. The new services include U.S. Private Line Ethernet Services, an expansion of Internet Dedicated Ethernet Service from five to 25 U.S. markets and enhanced Metro Private Line Ethernet Service with speeds of up to 1Gbit/sec.
Pricing for the services wasn't announced.
Touting its Converged Packet Access strategy, MCI said it is offering "secure, end-to-end Ethernet solutions over a private infrastructure that will support new business applications like storage to handle the growing volume of corporate data."
In a statement, MCI said the services "are ideal for companies in the financial, health care and education industries, especially those required to meet new industry regulations for data replication and archiving, and the support of new online applications. For example, Ethernet-based services are well suited to hospitals that need to share medical imaging between physician offices or for graphics companies that transfer gigabyte-sized files from design centers to printing locations."
The carrier already offers IP telephony services to business customers.

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