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. Self-Healing Alternate Route Protection (SHARP) Plus

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SHARP Plus Interoffice Only is a point-to-point service designed to transport single or multiple DS3s between two Qwest Wire Centers via diverse routes. The service is provisioned using fiber optic systems based on Synchronous Optical NETwork (SONET) technology. Systems line rates as high as 1.88 Gbps are available.

Benefits

  • Reliability - 99.86 percent error-free seconds, measured on a 24-hour basis
  • Transmission availability - 99.99 percent, measured on 12-month basis
  • Bit Error Rate - one bit per billion (10-9)
  • Economies of scale
  • Traffic aggregation platform for growth
  • Wide Area Network interconnection
  • Business continuation
  • Aggregation of services

Qwest Self-Healing Alternate Route Protection (SHARP) Plus service is available in locations where Qwest facilities exist in the contiguous United States and, until Qwest receives regulatory authorization to provide interLATA services, it is only available on an intraLATA basis in the states of AZ, CO, IA, ID, MN, MT, NE, NM, ND, OR, SD, UT, WA and WY.

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