tw telecom Announces National Availability of Dynamic Capacity

tw telecom (News - Alert), Inc., a provider of managed services, including Business Ethernet, converged and IP VPN solutions for enterprises throughout the U.S. and globally, has launched Dynamic Capacity, the second phase of its Intelligent Network service portfolio. 

Officials with tw telecom said that with Dynamic Capacity service, enterprise customers are able to scale their E-Line Business Ethernet bandwidth and capacity immediately across the network – without service interruption – through the same easy-to-use MyPortal interface they use for all tw telecom services. 

According to company officials, Dynamic Capacity is available to customers and prospects in approximately 16,000 tw telecom fiber-connected buildings in 75 major metro markets across the country. 

"Dynamic Capacity allows customers to immediately scale up their network capacity in response to business activity peaks and demands, and then return to their original committed base rate as they choose, all without interrupting their network connections," John Blount, chief operating officer at tw telecom, said in a statement.

“Imagine being able to increase network capacity in seconds.  Dynamic Capacity customers don't have to imagine; they do it,” said Blount. “Our MyPortal feature also allows CIOs to see the cost impacts of these changes so the company can budget more closely and allocate costs more efficiently for a marketing promotion or other high bandwidth activity."

Erin Dunne, director of Research Services at Vertical Systems Group, said that to support the rapid proliferation of networked business applications, IT professionals increasingly need better real-time visibility and control of their networks. 

A significant challenge is how to efficiently manage network bandwidth capacity in response to new Cloud apps or changes in existing applications.

“tw telecom addresses these needs with its Intelligent Network capabilities. Specifically, Dynamic Capacity is a unique capability that enables CIOs to look into their network metrics in real time and then allocate Ethernet bandwidth capacity on-demand," said Dunne. 

With Dynamic Capacity, according to company officials, E-Line Business Ethernet customers can scale their bandwidth, doubling or tripling capacity, in a matter of seconds, without service interruption.  Customers are able to manually control bandwidth increases through tw telecom's MyPortal where they can increase capacity on-demand. 

Customers are also able to schedule a bandwidth increase to accommodate an event such as data backup and retrieval. 

"Our Intelligent Network is designed to provide customers with network capabilities, including bandwidth when they need it, where they need it and how they need it, and most importantly, in real time," Blount said. 

Blount said that the tw telecom Intelligent Network allows customers to automatically see critical performance data, add bandwidth, prioritize traffic, as well as enable customers to dynamically access best of breed cloud solutions.

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