Qwest Wholesale Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Service can extend your reach anywhere within Qwest's extensive network. ATM service provides the security, reliability, and privacy you demand for optimal support of wide area network (WAN) requirements. By offering flexible bandwidth and the network capacity you need to grow, ATM delivers cost-effective access and infrastructure for all your communications needs.

Qwest Wholesale ATM Offers

• Transport of voice, data, video, and Internet traffic over a reliable, fully protected network
• Port speeds ranging from 1.544 Kbps to 622 Mbps, where available
• Interconnection with other service provider networks
• Seamless interworking with the Qwest Frame Relay network
• Proactive 24x7x365 network monitoring and repair via the Qwest Worldwide Data Operations Center
• Web-based network management interface provided by Qwest Control^®

Quality of Service (QoS) Levels

Utilizing the power of Qwest's Advanced Broadband Fiber Optic Network, this multi-service network transport service can virtually handle all forms of digital traffic and individual applications. With a self-healing network and a wide range of service levels, ATM has a top-quality delivery guarantee. Qwest can design a custom broadband solution for you using QoS levels that include:

• Constant Bit Rate (CBR) – for real-time applications that need fixed bandwidth with minimized delay
• Variable Bit Rate real time (VBRrt) – for time-sensitive applications that need high-delivery rate and lower delay, while allowing for application bandwidth usage bursts
• Variable Bit Rate non-real time (VBRnrt) – for applications with “burstable” traffic characteristics that have the ability to tolerate delay variation
• Available Bit Rate (ABR) – for applications that require high throughput with low cell loss of “burstable” traffic, through a network congestion control mechanism
• Unspecified Bit Rate (UBR) – “Best effort” with no service guarantees

Pay Only for What You Need

With Qwest Wholesale ATM Service you get what you pay for – and you pay only for what you need. Permanent virtual channel connections (VCCs) and virtual path connections (VPCs) provide flexible and economical connection options. Qwest is one of the few providers to offer asymmetrical VCCs, which permit different traffic rates in different directions (e.g., 5 Mbps outbound, 10 Mbps inbound).

Benefits

• Empower your virtual enterprise by eliminating traditional brick-and-mortar boundaries and expanding your presence electronically
• Offer an advanced networking solution that keeps you plugged in, domestically and internationally
• Guarantee performance with industry-leading service level agreements (SLAs)
• Support time-sensitive, mission-critical, and “burstable” traffic with standards-based service levels and QoS guarantees
• Connect to major cities in over 28 countries throughout the world

How to Get Started

If you need high speed, secure, reliable, and guaranteed throughput to integrate your voice, data, video, and Internet traffic over WANs in various locations, Qwest Wholesale ATM Service is the solution. For more information, please contact your Qwest Sales Representative.

The information contained herein does not constitute an offer by Qwest to provide services, equipment or materials. Any such services and items shall be provided only pursuant to a fully executed Qwest Wholesale Services Agreement, or similar agreement, between Qwest and Customer.