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Surfwise EFM

The Cost Effective Next Generation Ethernet Service

Surfwise’s Ethernet in the First Mile (EFM) solution is a highly resilient bonded copper pair Ethernet Service and is the next generation in Ethernet offerings.

EFM has the ability to carry higher bandwidth connections of up to 10Mbps to businesses without the need for costly end-to-end fibre leased lines. This service allows for improved performance, internet monitoring and a better standard of QoS.

Many businesses are now demanding higher standards in bandwidth due to their increasing need to protect mission critical data and to provide realtime information but find the costs for these services prohibitive. Surfwise EFM is broadening the reach of Ethernet lines to many more businesses by offering a low-cost broadband alternative against technologies such as DSL.

Surfwise EFM offers new, improved services for increased bandwidth efficiency with considerable cost savings by using bonded copper pairs as opposed to expensive fibre. Surfwise’s service bundles up to 5 copper pairs from the exchange to the premises to obtain the desired bandwidth throughput. Furthermore, if any of these pairs fail, the service adjusts the rate to a lower speed based on the circuits that are still running – avoiding a failure of the line as a whole.

Key Benefits of Surfwise EFM:

  • The Guarantee of Bandwidth – no contention so businesses get the speeds required
  • Huge cost savings – over the fibre option and leased lines
  • Future proofing - Easy transition to next generation network technology 10Mbps upstream and downstream – higher speeds to cater for growing business demands
  • Lines can be delivered in 4 weeks! – compare this to the months sometimes associated with new fibre installs
  • Ability to provision bandwidth dynamically – the Surfwise portal allows for total control to lower or raise speeds as necessary, providing excellent resilience
  • A range of choices to meet all needs – services can be provisioned over 10Mb, 100Mb or 1Gb bearers offering complete scalability

Who is EFM for?

Surfwise EFM is designed for businesses with an ever increasing demand for bandwidth due to the increasing needs of richer content and new applications. It offers far more freedom in the type for circuits businesses can build into their network design.

This business quality Ethernet service allows businesses to introduce new converged applications based on IP. It also has the added advantages of a guaranteed network and SLAs.

Who can have EFM?

We deliver a high performance national connectivity using the LAN standard that is familiar to most businesses and is very cost effective. Surfwise EFM is an exciting proposition in 21CN- enabled exchanges around the country where the end user is at a maximum distance of 4.8km from the exchange.

With wide, metro and local area networks already standardised, Surfwise EFM allows for continuous standard Ethernet network across the globe. Plus it eliminates non-native transport such as Ethernet over ATM from the access networks.

For more information on our Surfwise EFM, please contact a member of our Sales Team.