NANOG, I have been looking into getting an enterprise fiber connection from Centurylink (original provider at the location was TW Telecom, then L3, now CenturyLink). When speaking to my rep, he said I had the options listed below.
Does anyone know the difference between their Consumer Grade, their Enterprise Grade IQ network, and their Enterprise DIA network? I am guessing Fiber + Data is CenturyLink backbone delivered over GPON, Enterprise Data is CenturyLink Enterprise backbone delivered over GPON, and IQ Data Bundle is CenturyLink backbone delivered over a dedicated pair of fiber/wavelength/etc, and DIA is L3 backbone delivered over a dedicated pair of fiber/wavelength/etc? Fiber + Data only – This is a fiber connection with symmetrical bandwidth > delivered on a shared fiber facility. This service connects to our > consumer grade DSL internet network at our Central office. Bandwidth > options 50M, 100M, 500M and 1G > Fiber + Enterprise Data only – This is a fiber connection with symmetrical > bandwidth delivered on a shared fiber facility. The service connects to > our enterprise grade IQ network at our Central office. This service has > BGP capabilities but it is limited by the amount of memory in AdTran 5660 > device that is included with the service. Bandwidth options 50M, 100M, > 500M and 1G. > IQ Data Bundle – This is a fiber connection with symmetrical bandwidth > delivered on a dedicated fiber facility. This service connects to our > enterprise grade IQ network at the Central Office and comes with our > industry leading SLA’s and 99.999% uptime guarantee. This service has full > BGP capabilities with an AdTran 908e that is included with the service. > Bandwidth options are 10M to 10G. > Dedicated Internet Access - This is a fiber connection with symmetrical > bandwidth delivered on a dedicated fiber facility. This service connects > our enterprise grade network and comes with our Industry leading SLA’s and > 99.999% uptime guarantee. This service can do BGP but the customer will > need to provide the router as CenturyLink does not include one with this > service. Bandwidth options are 10 to 6G. Thank you!
