Data Services

When your offices are a distance from the local BT exchange, you are often faced with very slow Broadband speeds over a standard ADSL connection. We offer Leased Lines, Server Hosting & MPLS for customers who have bandwidth constraints at there offices. Please give us a call to arrange a meeting to discuss your requirements in more detail.

Ethernet First Mile (EFM)
Ethernet First Mile (EFM) technology is an advanced form of broadband service that provides up to 10Mbps symmetrical uncontended access using ubiquitous copper circuits. For companies looking for high quality upstream capacity to support e-mail, head office VPN termination or hosted applications, EFM can overcome the upstream limitations of ADSL or SDSL, without costing as much as a dedicated fibre-based Ethernet service. With shorter lead times than fibre leased-lines, but with more resilience than a standard broadband line, EFM fills a much-needed gap between the two types of access.

EFM is also useful for those sites where higher capacity access is required, but fibre would cost too much to install. Opal’s EFM service is delivered on between two and eight dedicated copper circuits (included in the price) depending on distance, copper quality and bandwidth requirements and comes with a next business day fix guarantee and a target availability of 99.9%.

Copper-based access technology
Lower costs and shorter lead times than fibre. May be available where fibre is not possible. Alternative media to fibre providing superior separation where EFM is deployed as a back up to a fibre-based system.

Multiple copper pairs
Openreach has decided to deploy a minimum of two pairs to each EFM connectivity system. This protects the customer from loss of connectivity due to failure of one of the pairs alone. Higher uptime characteristics. More reliable than standard ADSL, ADSL2+ and SDSL services.

Symmetrical
Access to enhanced upstream capacity. Most cost-effective and technologically robust* method of delivering 3Mbps-10Mbps upstream.

Uncontended
Certainty of access performance. Service performance is not affected by other people using the same exchange.

Ethernet presentation
Simplifies edge CPE choices. No need for expensive ADSL modules, microfilters or interface cards. Can be plugged straight into a firewall or other Ethernet device (Internet-facing service only).

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