ENNIs enable carriers to deliver robust solutions to enterprise customers with accelerated time to market, improved geographic reach, end-to-end guaranteed SLAs and an empowered service and support team.

Service providers that leverage ENNI can deliver the following benefits to customers:

• Improved availability: Service turn-up time is improved as interconnections through a standards-based ENNI are faster to provision than previous carrier network connections. Interconnecting carriers' services defined by CoS are pre-mapped at the ENNI to best align service attributes across networks. Bandwidth can also be quickly increased or turned up at existing ENNI ports.

• Faster provisioning

• Defined class of service