Nextgen launches Australia's first VPLS

07.03.2006
Australia's very first Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) is being launched Wednesday by Nextgen Networks, a wholly owned subsidiary of Leightons Contractors.

The carrier independent layer 2 VPN service features bundled bandwidth, end node VPN segregation and Quality of Service (QoS) profiles over three cost structures.

Essentially a fiber and rack space provider, Nextgen own a 2X route between Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra and a single route from Melbourne to Perth.

The company is packaging the offering as a national layer 2 VPN called National VPLS.

The service, without additional charges or carrier controls, allows customers to transmit data between meshed sites without traffic charges, distribute hosted applications when required and push end to end QoS profiles.

VPLS can connect multiple sites on a single domain over a managed MPLS (multiprotocol layer switching) with high bandwidth Ethernet.