Last Mile

PacketFabric last mile access (or “access line”) enables private, secure connectivity to office, campus, and other off-net locations.

It accomplishes this by partnering with Unitas to deliver fully managed connectivity to locations not yet served by PacketFabric.

You you can use your PacketFabric credentials to access the Unitas Nexus tool. From here, you can generate quotes for last mile access from your on-premises location to nearby data centers.

For more information, see Unitas Nexus or contact Unitas technical support.

Benefits

You can use last mile access to connect office buildings, campus locations, private data centers, manufacturing facilities, or laboratory locations to the PacketFabric network as part of an overall solution.

Once connected, PacketFabric provides private access to public cloud, private cloud, popular SaaS applications, Internet access, and more.

This comes with multiple benefits, including:

• Extend the PacketFabric connectivity options and ecosystem to your office.
• Last mile access optimized for latency and cost.
• Fully managed hardware and service.
• A single provider for all services and invoicing.

How last mile works

Connectivity to a remote location is a Layer 2 circuit with a network interface device (NID) on each side of the remote connection. Data then flows onto the PacketFabric network and to its final destination.

NID hardware technical specs and maintenance

Ciena 3903

• Space: Mountable on desktop, wall, or in rack
• Power: 45 Watt max 27 nominal
• Port Configuration: 2 x 100/1000M SFP NNI/UNI ports, 1 x 10/100/1000M RJ-45; 100/1000M SFP UNI combo port, 1 x Console Port (RJ-45, EIA-561)
• Full Specifications and Data Sheet: https://www.ciena.com/products/3903

Ciena 3928

• Space: Rack mountable, 1RU
• Power: 76 Watts max 60 nominal
• Ports Configuration: 4 x 1GbE/10GbE SFP+ ports, 8 x 1GbE SFP ports
• Full Specifications and Data sheet: https://www.ciena.com/products/3928

Maintenance

Network Interface Device System (NIDS) have next business day hardware replacement from the vendor as well as in house stock to ship from replacements. Software upgrades occur as necessary according to vendor requirements. Customers are notified of all required upgrades and time is scheduled accordingly.

Available last mile speeds

• Port sizes and types: 1GE, 10GE, 100GE

• Circuit speeds:

  50Mbps, 100Mbps, 200Mbps, 300Mbps, 400Mbps, 500Mbps, 1Gbps, 2Gbps, 5Gbps, 10Gbps, 20Gbps, 30Gbps, 40Gbps, 50Gbps, 60Gbps, 80Gbps, 100Gbps

Invoicing and customer support

All access line services are invoiced on your PacketFabric bill. Any billing questions can be directed to [email protected].

Support for all services is handled through PacketFabric support: [email protected]

Self-service management

All PacketFabric services can be viewed and modified through the PacketFabric portal.

All last mile services are viewed through the Unitas portal.