Frontier Communications Corporation continues to enhance its Ethernet portfolio, now offering traffic prioritization based on user-defined applications. New Quality of Service (QoS) capabilities significantly improve network efficiencies and availability by prioritizing critical applications. Frontier is introducing two new Ethernet offerings for Retail and Wholesale users.

Ethernet Virtual Private Line (EVPL) Gold focuses on businesses needing point-to-point design within Frontier's QoS-enabled markets, requiring service level agreements (SLAs) surrounding bandwidth guarantees, a limited delay in traffic prioritization and monthly reporting. Frontier's EVPL Platinum offers premium point-to-point service for customers with real-time data delivery requirements and corresponding SLAs. The next enhancement will introduce additional exchanges utilizing copper elements, which believe is a key differentiator in Ethernet Virtual Private Line offerings.

All three Frontier EVPL solutions are hybrid in nature and take advantage of growing fiber plant while leveraging its existing copper facilities for a footprint encompassing 6,373 exchanges. In addition to adding QoS, SLAs and Reporting, Frontier will expand and enhance its EVPL offers to include increased interface speeds, out-of-franchise capabilities, multipoint-to-multipoint configurations, and services that enable multiple Classes of Service (multi CoS) with manageability over interconnected provider networks.