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Networking Services
- A “first stop” point to provide cost effective access to national commodity Internet Service Providers (ISPs), national R&E backbones, service mechanisms that ensure alternate data paths, data paths with especially high quality end-to-end performance for specific advanced applications, and links to partner networks.
- A multiple protected “ring” architecture backbone which allows network traffic to travel on multiple paths to achieve redundancy and the highest level of reliability.
- Capable of supporting multiple links with a more reliable and flexible network infrastructure that can grow and incorporate technological advancements and individual wave bandwidth increases up to 400G.
- IPv4 and native IPv6 connectivity to the national research backbones as well as the commodity Internet allowing MAX to support federal agenices and beyond.
- MAX can customize your connection to your needs with network services that span dedicated Layer 1 optical waves, Layer 2 vLAN and MPLS, as well as Layer 3 aggregated routed IP service.
- National and global collaboration with other researchers and educators via highly reliable, non-congested Internet services. We have a robust, optical backbone infrastructure resulting in low latency network services to other major research and education institutions.
Operational Support
- A Network Operations Center (NOC) that monitors and responds to events and requests from our participants 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
- MAX provides a premium, personalized level of support. A local, dedicated MAX engineer will work with you from the time we receive notification of outages to restoration of services.
- Increased opportunities to participate in leading edge research initiatives and sponsored grant activities with national and international partners and collaborators.
- A variety of network consulting services to participants. For questions about fiber design and consulting, please contact us at .
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