A further extension of the e-LINE service where customers can now link multiple offices and personnel throughout the country/world in the same LAN environment—which is easy to manage by IT personnel. Create multiple VLANs for network management purposes.

e-LAN allows customers to buy a fixed bandwidth to be shared between all branches. This allows greater bandwidth usage and management while reducing the cost of network.

e-Lan connects multiple nodes in a virtual environment on a MULTI PATH OPTICAL NETWORK. The network selects the shortest and fastest route to deliver data packets.

Planned expansion of MetroE network means continuously improving the network quality as more network paths are created.

• Multiple office shares total bandwidth purchased
• More efficient way to share bandwidth between branches
• Easy-to-manage, create as many VLANS as you wish
• Resilient, multiple routes
• More control to users
• Traditional network cannot offer this
• Economical as you buy bandwidth on-demand

Customers can create multiple VLANs to manage their network. Customers can configure bandwidth allocation to their branches or let the network find its optimum paths based on demand.

"e-LAN lets you take a group of customer sites and enclose them in a closed user group. So if one customer has 10 sites and another has 20 sites, you could logically connect the 10 sites independently of the other 20 even though both would be using the same switching infrastructure," says Manu Kaycee, director of network architecture for Hatteras