The Network Operations Centre is connected via OC192 fiber connections to Verizon™ (Formerly Bell Atlantic PA) & Commonwealth Telephone (CTSI), NorthEast PA's 2nd largest Telco.

The N.O.C utilizes a Sprint™ (http://www.sprint.com) OC3 (155mbps) connection, as well as MCI/Worldcom™ (http://www.worldcom.com) and AT&T™ (http://www.att.com) DS3 (45mbps) connections. A Qwest™ (http://www.qwest.com) 100mbps Metro Fast Ethernet drop, as well as a Cogent™ (http://www.cogentco.com) 100mbps Metro Fast Ethernet drop are scheduled for installation. The AT&T™ connection is scheduled for upgrade to OC3 (155mbps) capacity as well.

For redundancy, we are currently running BGP4 (border gateway routing protocol) to maintain the speed and uptime. If one backbone line goes down, it will balance the load to the other(s). If one line gets congested, it will load balance the traffic.