The company also plans to expand its Internet Ethernet service from five markets to 25 markets, starting in September. MCI also announced on Tuesday that it's building a new access network that will allow it to provision these services faster and cheaper. The new infrastructure provides network access over packet technology rather than over a time division multiplexing, or TDM, hierarchy. Traditionally, communication services have been provisioned on separate physical TDM facilities. For example, a voice circuit is provisioned for telephone calls, and a separate circuit is provisioned for data traffic.

MCI's new architecture enables both services to be provisioned over a single Ethernet connection, It reduces network complexity and enables customers to upgrade bandwidth on their services within hours rather than in weeks, which is typical of today's traditional TDM-based services, In the future, MCI plans to allow customers to manage their networks via a Web-based portal, "As an industry, we've done a good job building networks that transport data services over the core," said mood color changing iphone xs max case Jack Wimmer, vice president of network architecture and advanced technology at MCI, "But we haven't changed how we connect customers to that network, MCI is changing that last frontier so that we provide one pipe into the building and size it to handle all the different services."..

Analysts said the new architecture is a big step for MCI, because it helps reduce the complexity and cost of MCI's internal network. Over the years, MCI's IP network has gotten more complex, as it patched together different networks it had acquired from other providers. "The new architecture should go a long way in settling the complexities of its internal network," said Brian Washburn, senior analyst of network services at Current Analysis. "But most other carriers don't have as many different legacy networks to deal with as MCI, so it might not be as big a deal for them.".

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