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Sprint today announced progress to drive the full capabilities of its all-digital, fiber-optic network deeper into the metro areas of more than 30 U.S. cities before mid-2004. The company has deployed 17 markets with metropolitan area network (MAN) rings in its service footprint, enhancing network monitoring capabilities and improving network reliability to customers in those markets.
"Many prospective customers are telling us that they want their critical
data and voice traffic to ride on the most reliable network possible," said
Jim Patterson, vice president of Access Management. "The build-out of metro
rings in these 30-plus U.S. markets will enable us to do that and more as we
bring the unique benefits of the Sprint network closer to our customers."
MANs are established in markets where customer demand for Sprint network
quality and survivability is the highest. Those markets currently are:
Chicago; Columbus, Ohio; Dallas; Houston; Kansas City; Los Angeles; Newark;
New York; Oklahoma City; Orlando; Philadelphia; Portland; Raleigh, N.C.; St.
Louis; San Francisco; Van Buren, Ark; and Washington, D.C.
The MAN ring architecture being deployed in all the markets is designed to
provide self-healing capabilities during two major causes of telecom route
failures -- fiber cuts and electronic outages. Since 1996, Sprint has led its
two major rivals in reporting the fewest numbers of FCC-reportable long-
distance network outages every year. The FCC requires that carriers report all
outages that block at least 90,000 calls during an event that lasts at least
30 minutes.
"Metro rings had been a missing piece of the Sprint network, but this
initiative will help the carrier in a number of ways," said Ron Kaplan,
research manager at International Data Corp. "Owning or having long-term dark
fiber leases gives Sprint more control over its own costs, as well as more
control over its customers' experience. Sprint and many of its business
customers will benefit."
The MAN high-speed rings connect the Sprint fiber-optic backbone to local
exchange carrier end offices, as well as to points of presence, where long
distance and ILECs typically exchange traffic. In many cases, Sprint also is
connecting the MAN rings to PCS mobile switching centers, which route wireless
calls to PCS customers of Sprint.
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