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Network and
Switching
Great Lakes Comnet's Network and Switching Plan is intended to be an
ongoing process. It requires constant input from all "stakeholders" to
assess its effectiveness, applicability, and impact on the corporation
as well as its clients. When necessary, the plan will change to reflect
current business conditions including technological advances, realities
of the marketplace and changes in public policy. In short, it is a
living, breathing plan. Our objective is to keep it alive and evolving.
The company's goal is to deploy business strategies to result in
increased revenues, reduced operating expenses and entry to new
strategic markets. These strategies are based on technological changes
and advancements, changes in public policies, and evolution of attendant
administrative and support systems and infrastructure related to
technologies.
The company's physical network consists of shareholder/customer-owned
fiber facilities, company-owned fiber facilities and leased fiber
facilities providing connectivity to a common switching point. Network
deployment is comprised of multiple strategies including:
- Centralized
intra-regional "hubbing"
- Centralized host
office and tandem switching
- Company owned
fiber facilities
- Strategic
alliances
- Centralized
operations
Switching is an
integral part of the company's overall plans and involves the placement
of a state of the art centralized switch owned by the company on the
existing premises of a shareholder company. The company's centralized
switch provides host/remote (class 5) local exchange, voice mail, and
tandem services. |
