AI Telecom Agent

Service types

The connectivity services we shop for. Use this as a quick reference before chatting with the AI assistant — it can suggest the right shape once you describe your endpoints and constraints.

Layer 1 — dedicated optics

  • Wavelength (DWDM)

    1G–400G

    Dedicated optical channel on a DWDM ring. Fixed capacity, deterministic latency, no contention.

  • Dark fiber

    Raw fiber pair you light yourself with your own transponders. Maximum control, highest setup cost.

Layer 2 — Ethernet

  • EPL (Ethernet Private Line)

    10M–100G

    Point-to-point Ethernet circuit, no other traffic on the path. Strict CoS, easy to scope.

  • EVPL (Ethernet Virtual Private Line)

    10M–100G

    Multipoint Ethernet over a shared backbone with VLAN separation. Cheaper than EPL when you have many sites.

  • Metro Ethernet (ELAN/E-LINE/E-TREE)

    10M–10G

    Carrier Ethernet across a metro footprint — typically MEF-certified, with rate-limited port speeds.

Layer 3 — IP / MPLS

  • IP transit

    100M–100G

    Internet routing access via a carrier's AS. Commit + burst pricing, BGP-peered.

  • MPLS L3VPN

    10M–10G

    Routed any-to-any private WAN with carrier-managed routing. Legacy but still common in renewals.

Access — local loops

  • Dedicated Internet Access (DIA, business fiber)

    100M–100G

    Symmetric dedicated fiber to a building, SLA-backed. Standard enterprise primary access in NA + EU.

  • Business cable internet

    100M–10G

    Asymmetric DOCSIS-3.1 over coax — cheap and fast-to-install, weak SLA. Common as failover.

  • Data-center internet

    1G–100G

    IP transit + cross-connect, delivered inside a colo. Burstable, multi-carrier blend possible.

NaaS — on-demand fabric + cloud onramp

  • NaaS / Virtual Cross-Connect

    50M–100G

    On-demand L2/L3 between any two ports on a global fabric (Megaport, Equinix Fabric, PacketFabric, etc.).

  • Cloud onramp (private interconnect)

    50M–100G

    Private virtual circuit to AWS Direct Connect / Azure ExpressRoute / GCP Interconnect / OCI FastConnect / IBM Direct Link.

Managed overlay

  • Managed SD-WAN

    Vendor-managed overlay across mixed transports — fiber, cable, 5G, satellite — with policy + zero-touch.

Wireless — 5G / LTE / cellular

  • 5G fixed-wireless business

    100M–1G

    5G FWA from T-Mobile / Verizon / AT&T / Bell / Rogers / Telus. Useful as primary in non-fiber locations and as failover.

  • Bonded cellular failover (router + multi-SIM)

    Cradlepoint / Peplink / Inseego routers bonding cellular paths for resilient branch access.

Facility

  • Colocation

    Rack / cage / cabinet space in a third-party data center, with cross-connect access to carriers and clouds.