Yipes Communications Partners with Lucent Technologies for High-Quality Network Services

Strategic Insights -

Yipes Communications, a leading managed optical IP network provider, has partnered with Lucent Technologies to provide 24x7 Network Operations Center (NOC) services for its gigabit backbone. Lucent's NetworkCare will remotely monitor and troubleshoot Yipes' core network devices, ensuring high levels of reliability and quality for business customers. This partnership underscores Yipes' commitment to delivering best-in-class network services to businesses across the United States.

Key Takeaways:

  • Yipes Communications is building out the first end-to-end Ethernet-based regional networks across the United States, providing scalable speeds from 1 Megabit-per-second to 1 Gigabit-per-second in 1 Mbps increments.
  • Lucent Technologies NetworkCare provides 24x7 NOC services, including reporting, network performance analysis, troubleshooting assistance, and backup services, to ensure the highest levels of reliability for Yipes business customers.
  • The partnership supplements Yipes' network management operations at its own 24x7 NOC in Denver and its backup NOC in San Francisco, ensuring a redundant management system for the highest levels of reliability.
  • Yipes' network services are available in suburban San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Denver, with a nationwide footprint planned by the end of 2000, covering 18 cities coast to coast.
  • Yipes' networks provide roughly twice the bandwidth at 80 percent of the price of traditional data communications services.

Statistics:

  • Yipes is building out the first end-to-end Ethernet-based regional networks across the United States.
  • The networks are scalable from 1 Megabit-per-second to 1 Gigabit-per-second in 1 Mbps increments.
  • Lucent Technologies NetworkCare provides 24x7 NOC services for Yipes' core network devices.
  • Yipes' network services are available in 18 cities across the United States, with coverage planned in suburban San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Denver by the end of 2000.
  • Yipes' networks provide roughly twice the bandwidth at 80 percent of the price of traditional data communications services.

Sources:

  • Yipes Communications press release, dated March 22, 2000.
  • Business Wire, dated March 22, 2000.
  • Lucent Technologies NetworkCare web site, http://www.lucent.com/networkcare.
  • Lucent Technologies web site, http://www.lucent.com.