Progress Telecom and EPIK Communications have joined forces. The new company is one of the largest leading regional providers of broadband services in the eastern United States. The combined fiber network offers fast local loop, metro ring access with dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM) technology and a 10 gigabit, OC-192 IP backbone.

Intelligent route control provided utilizing UUNET, ATT, Sprint, Verio, Cable and Wireless, Global Crossing, GTE/BBN, Qwestk, Digex, and Level3.

Cogent's optical network consists of multiple metropolitan IP-over-WDM fiber rings located in Cogent's major markets throughout the United States and Europe.

Sonet connection providers:

• Gige Epik (x2)
• Gige Cogent
• T3 Internap
• T3 Peering in NAP
• 100Mbs Epik

Each connection has a Cisco PIX Firewall. Then to our Cisco 7606 router, from there it goes down to our Extreme Networks 6808 switch with 384 Gbps total switching capacity, from there it goes out to the Cisco 2950 switches.

We employ the standard Border Gateway Protocol (BGP4) in our network to ensure that data is routed via best case routing. Each packet of information is evaluated and sent over the best possible route. In the event of a router failure, packets are automatically directed to another route in our redundant network architecture.