Verizon’s build-out policy boils down to whether or not any new contract will 
fund the metro-E upgrade costs over a five year period. If it won’t, then SONET 
is used where there is capacity, right up to the capacity limit. We recently 
received a 100 Mbps Ethernet circuit on the last OC3 of a SONET node. I argued 
that we should have been put on MetroE to enable future upgrades, since there 
is no orderable bandwidth left on this node, and Verizon’s reply was “you would 
have to order a bigger circuit now”. Frankly, I couldn’t justify the jump to 
GigE, so here we are on maxed-out facilities. 

 -mel beckman

> On Jan 5, 2019, at 12:06 PM, Justin M. Streiner <strein...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 5 Jan 2019, Mitchell Lewis wrote:
>> 
>> How common is it for Verizon to deliver "Internet Dedicated Ethernet" over 
>> sonet? Ran into a situation where the canoga-perkins nte was uplinked to a 
>> Flashwave 4100es in the basement (uplinked by an OC-48). There is in a 
>> Verizon ILEC area.
> 
> If the location has an existing Verizon SONET node, and there is capacity on 
> it to provide the Ethernet service you need, Verizon could opt to deliver the 
> Ethernet service that way.
> 
> Thank you
> jms

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