New Edge to buy Verizon DSL

New Edge Networks has signed a wholesale agreement with Verizon Wireless for DSL services, including the RBOC’s new G.shdsl services deployed in New York and Los Angeles.

The agreement is intended to expand its nationwide footprint of DSL access as well as give it access to Verizon’s new standards-based symmetrical technology, which compliment’s New Edge’s own 600-central office SDSL network, said Dan Moffat, CEO and president of New Edge. New Edge plans to offer frame relay over DSL and VPN services over the new G.shdsl platform--which supports speeds as high as 1.5 Mb/s on both the up and down streams--using a network of gateways installed in Verizon central offices that in turn connect to New Edge’s frame relay switches.

“We were pleased to see Verizon deploy SHDSL,” Moffat said. “It validated our business model of deploying symmetrical service to business customers. As Verizon deploys the service throughout its network we plan to expand with them as well as work with the other RBOCs as they deploy symmetrical services.”

New Edge also plans to utilize Verizon’s extensive ADSL footprint for customers with remote user or home teleworker needs. In some areas such as New York, New Edge has a choice of four service providers to deploy DSL services, using agreements with Covad Communications, DSL.net, Verizon and its own SDSL network concentrated in small and medium-sized markets. Ultimately, the decision of which carrier to use for a particular access service will depend on performance and margin issues, Moffat said. In many cases, Verizon’s SHDSL services may be preferable since its standards guarantee a particular level of service and extend maximum loop lengths by several hundred feet, Moffat said. For more information on New Edge click here.