MAX can provide a point-to-point optically-protected Layer 1 connection between any two points on our network. This is 100% dedicated bandwidth between your devices. The provided optical protection has a near instantaneous switchover time so a fiber cut within the MAX optical footprint would be transparent to your service. If you have a need to connect beyond the mid-Atlantic region, we can also work with you to provide a nationwide lambda transport solution

This is similar to Layer 1 but uses MPLS Layer 2 VPNs to transport your traffic from end to end. We can provide VLANs across your existing ports to connect your locations together, or we can provide dedicated interfaces. The traffic goes across our non-oversubscribed 400G backbone, ensuring your frames get from end to end. We can work with your requirements for a national scope via Internet2 to connect you to your research partners in other regions.

If you have a need to collocate equipment, we can either collocate it for you directly in one of our locations, or coordinate on your behalf with our existing collocation providers around the region.

MAX resells a blended commodity Internet service procured from multiple Internet service providers as a value-add service for R&E customers. These providers are all blended together on the MAX network and redistributed as a single combined service to customers. MAX provides this commodity Internet service across an additional VLAN and BGP peering on the customer’s existing connection. This blended service offers highly redundant and diversified access to the Internet.

MAX offers a cloud-based volumetric DDoS scrubbing service. The service is a valuable tool that helps customers protect their networks from the increasing threat of DDoS attacks. Radware, the commercial provider chosen for this service, has terabits of network capacity dedicated to mitigating DDoS attacks. When hosts on a customer’s network come under attack, this service can be used to redirect all traffic destined for affected hosts to the Radware network where the traffic is “scrubbed,” allowing only legitimate non-attack traffic to be returned to its intended destination over the customer’s MAX connection. Radware also offers an optional service that monitors the customer’s border routers and will initiate DDoS scrubbing automatically.