Highly economical, dedicated connection
Qwest's Optical Wavelength Services (OWS) offers your Agency outstanding value in very high capacity data transport. Qwest's OWS enables Agency data centers and locations of highly concentrated data applications to communicate between each other over long or short distances.

Features

• Comes in 2.5 Gbps and 10 Gbps speeds
• Long haul and metro wavelengths are available
• Supports standards-based Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) and Synchronous Digital Hierarchy framing
• Local access provided by using on-net facilities or leasing wavelengths from CLECs or ILECs
• Fully transparent--allows overhead bytes to pass unchanged to enable Agency-provided protection switching
• Protected and unprotected options are supported
• Diversity provided as requested

Benefits

• Provides your Agency with highly economical bulk data transport
• Peace of mind--all connections are dedicated 100% to your Agency, so there is no contention for bandwidth
• Very little chance of hacking--any connection must be made physically, and therefore any intrusion would be detected by Qwest's Network Operations Center (NOC)
• Ease of use--ensured by highly standardized interfaces and framing, as proven through years of Qwest experience