WHAT IT IS

Through SONET (Synchronous Optical Network) architecture, Verizon^® offers high-capacity bandwidth users survivability options that are high-powered yet not high-cost. These services - part of Verizon's business solutions - can be tailored to fit your changing requirements for reliability, diversity, and survivability for your special access traffic today and as your business grows.

WHAT IT'S FOR

Each of Verizon's SONET-based survivability services focuses on a special area of protection - from rerouting traffic in the event of a cable cut, to disaster avoidance and total survivability for your mission-critical services. As an example, the MSNBC news organization uses a high-speed, fiber-based SONET ring to provide such lifeline functions as on-demand access of data, voice, and digital audio and video throughout the fully integrated network. For more information on individual offerings, please click on survivability services.

HOW IT WORKS

Verizon's SONET-based network backbone survivability is unsurpassed in the industry. That's because the network has been designed from the ground up for disaster avoidance - using dual interconnecting ring-to-ring network topology to ensure network survivability. These services provide protection at significant savings compared to creating and managing a separate backbone network.

HOW YOU BENEFIT