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Virtual Point of Presence

Continuous growth is a given for Internet Service Providers. Along with rapid growth is the requirement to continuously expand and upgrade your network infrastructure.

MetroNet's ISP Virtual Point of Presence service offers Internet Service Providers the capability of rapidly expanding their capacity without incurring associated capital costs. The service offers the benefits of centralized remote access servers, coupled with MetroNet's high speed fibre optic infrastructure.

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  • Supports both digital and analog customer dial-up.
  • Supported through Remote Access servers located in MetroNet facilities.
  • Inter-city remote access traffic backhaul is available. ISP customers may choose to transport connections made in remote cities to the ISP's home gateway location.
  • Uses standards-based tunneling for Virtual Private Digital Networking (VDPN) via the Layer 2 Forwarding (L2F) protocol.
  • Supports ISP RADIUS and TACACS authentication protocols
  • Analog 56kbps dial-up access supported through K56Flex
With MetroNet, ISPs can ramp up easily to meet their growth in demand - taking on thousands of new customers on our ISP VPOP service.

Because we offer ISP VPOP across all of our markets, the service also provides ISPs with a cost-effective solution for expanding their reach, into new markets.

Virtual Point of Presence Features:

  • Offered in blocks of 23 managed modem ports
  • Quickly and easily scalable to handle increasing traffic loads
  • MetroNet high speed access at your "home gateway" location. This provides an Ethernet demarcation providing all remote user traffic via a consolidated data connection.
  • VPOP uses the latest standards to enable capabilities such as Virtual Private Digital Networking
  • VPOP not only answers incoming calls, it provides secure connectivity by using ISP security and administration systems that check passwords and reject unauthorized users before routing traffic to the ISP's network
  • ISPs retain their own security and accounting function
  • Cost effective means of supporting continued growth without the need to incur costs of capital or network management