TelCove offers two types of managed IP VPN services

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07/07/05
Today's focus: TelCove offers two types of managed IP VPN
services

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Today's focus: TelCove offers two types of managed IP VPN
services

By Tim Greene

TelCove is coming out with two IP VPN services that can
accommodate two different types of customers.

One service is based on VPN gear placed at each site and the
other is based on VPN gear inside TelCove's network. For
customers who want VPN tunnels from site to site, the first
option is what they would be interested in. Customers who want
the VPN within the carrier network and who don't want an extra
box at their sites would choose the latter.

Both services are managed from TelCove's network operations
center in Cloudersport, Pa.

The services do have limitations, the most significant of which
is geographic. If all the sites are in one of the 55 cities the
provider's network covers - almost all of them east of the
Mississippi - then they can connect directly to TelCove's
network and can get TelCove service-level agreements (SLA).

Sites outside those cities would have to backhaul to a TelCove
access router in one of the cities to get on the network.
Otherwise, customers would have to buy separate Internet
connections for sites outside the TelCove region and connect to
the VPN via the public Internet. These sites would have no SLAs
from TelCove.

The SLAs for customers on the network are 100% uptime, 65
milliseconds delay and less than 1% packet loss per month.

Customers who already buy meshed frame relay or ATM network
services from TelCove could add sites using IP connections and
have them connect to the frame and ATM sites. While the IP VPN
services connect to these Layer 2 frame relay and ATM networks,
the IP VPN segments are Layer 3.

Pricing for the services is based on the bandwidth of the access
lines and the number of sites.

Many other providers offer similar services, and this one should
be considered by customers who happen to have sites in
TelCove-covered cities.
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