Trumpet Networks provides secure, reliable and cost-effective Metropolitan Area Network (“MAN”) Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet circuits for point-to-point private line transport. Trumpet's fully-scalable Metro Ethernet solutions offer data rates from 10 Mbps to multi-Gigabit at substantially less cost than traditional telecommunications circuits, such as DS3 or OC3.

Top-Tier Land Line and Microwave Carriers With Value Pricing

Trumpet utilizes only top-tier providers, such as AT&T, Verizon Business/MCI, Qwest, XO Communications, Global Crossing, Level 3, and Sprint for its Metro Ethernet circuits.

Trumpet also designs and installs custom microwave networks and utilizes the existing networks of leading microwave carriers to provide secure, reliable microwave circuits for WAN connectivity.

By selecting the least-cost fiber solution and microwave options from among a wide range of quality carriers, Trumpet's customers benefit from competition between carriers and technologies. This permits Trumpet to provide superior quality and value in head-to-head competition with other providers.

Cost Saving Options

In addition, Trumpet tailors its service to the customer's particular needs. For Metro Ethernet service, this can include offering “burstable” circuits.

Trumpet's burstable Metro Ethernet service is designed for customers requiring full Fast Ethernet or Gigabit Ethernet speeds on a periodic basis. Customers pay for the lower bandwidth it really needs, typically 10, 30, or 50 Mbps, and the circuit automatically delivers speeds of up to 100 Mbps (Fast E) or 1,000 (GigE) when required for peak demand.

Trusted Adviser

Trumpet's broad range of solutions coupled with its technology-neutral stance permits Trumpet to focus on providing the best overall value for its customers, rather than pushing a particular carrier network or transport technology. This allows Trumpet to be a trusted advisor and consultant to its customers, developing long-term business

Monitoring

In addition to the carriers' network monitoring, Trumpet provides 24x7 LAN/WAN device health and performance monitoring and reporting.

About Metro Ethernet

Metro Ethernet is, as the name suggests, an Ethernet-based metropolitan area network that offers businesses and agencies a more versatile and cost-effective option for connecting multiple offices or facilities. Ethernet also supports high bandwidths with fine granularity (customers can select the specific data rate they need), which is not available with traditional DS3/OCx connections.

Ethernet connections easily interface with the customer network due to the wide use of Ethernet in local area computing.

Metro Ethernet can be used as pure Ethernet, Ethernet over SDH (DS3/OC3), or Ethernet over MPLS.

Pure Ethernet-based deployments are cheap but less reliable and scalable, and thus are usually limited to small scale or experimental deployments.

SDH-based deployments are useful when there is an existing SDH infrastructure already in place, its main shortcoming being the loss of flexibility in bandwidth management due to the rigid hierarchy imposed by the SDH network (45 Mbps for a DS3, 155 Mbps for an OC3, etc.).

MPLS-based deployments are costly but highly reliable and scalable, and are typically used by large organizations or service providers.