Overview
LSN is one of the Pacific Northwest region’s fastest growing telecommunications companies, providing integrated telecommunications solutions to carriers, education, enterprise business and government customers. These solutions include advanced network transport, access, and productized services in major cities and rural communities throughout Oregon and Washington. The LSN product portfolio includes Wavelength, MEF-26 compliant Ethernet Transport services (including E-LINE, E-LAN, and E-TREE), TDM Private Line (T1 through OC-Dedicated Internet, and IPTV distribution via their Program Distribution Network.
History & Philosophy
LightSpeed Networks, Inc. (LSN) was founded in 2005 by a conglomerate of rural utility companies to provide the infrastructure to bring their customers telecommunications services. Their products deliver high speed internet to k-12 schools, higher education institutions, state and local government, and television broadcasters. In less than a decade LSN has grown to become a major regional telecommunications provider while maintaining a focus on connecting those who need it most. The LSN network architecture is designed to maximize innovations and solve communications hurdles unique to rural communities. Their products allow smaller scale Internet Service Providers (ISP’s) to leverage the LSN footprint to offer better, more ubiquitous service with optimal route protection.
LSN’s Shareholders:
• CEC Resources, Inc. (the holding company of Central Electric Cooperative)
• Rural Services Company (the holding company of Umatilla Electric Cooperative)
• Douglas Electric Cooperative
• Hood River Electric Cooperative
• Coquille Economic Development Corporation (the parent corporation for all Coquille Tribal businesses)
• Columbia Broadband (a wholly owned subsidiary of West Oregon Electric Cooperative)
LSN Services Available:
• LSN’s services allow other service providers to leverage their expansive network footprint to provide the best, most ubiquitous service to their subscribers. Additionally, their product line makes service available to key institutions in rural markets, such as K-12 schools, community colleges and universities, state and local government, and local television broadcasters. LSN applies their philosophy of best network protection to all of their services by creating route redundancy where possible, and bringing their MPLS/VPLS core as close to the edge as possible. It is LSN’s practice to maximize network architecture for continued innovation in solving the communications problems faced by many rural and metropolitan communities.
• Carrier Services – Wavelengths, Ethernet, SONET & TDM, IP Services and Cell Tower Backhaul
• Ethernet Everywhere – Secure & Reliable Layer-2 Connectivity, Point-to-Point (E-LINE), Multipoint-to-Multipoint (E-LAN), Point-to-Multipoint (E-TREE)
• Ethernet Private Line – Point-to-Point Alternative to Legacy TDM
• Internet Access – Dedicated, Reliable, Local
• MPLS/VPLS – Your virtual private network within our private network; cutting-edge resiliency and capacity
Flexible
LSN’s flexible telecommunications solutions are engineered to meet customer specifications. Increasingly, Customers require connections to each other to share applications, data and disaster recovery/business continuity. LSN provides a Layer-2 Metro Ethernet service over a variety of access technologies to connect multiple offices throughout our service area. Their service supports data of all sorts, with video conferencing, voice, security, and the ability of the customer to control their own traffic. LSN also facilitates hosting and collocation in carrier-grade environments for those customers who choose not to host in their own facilities.
Scalable
Physical access solutions vary depending on customer needs and geography. Solutions include fiber, copper, wireless and bonded T1s. Bandwidth and product flexibility is available over each of these physical access types allowing your network to grow as your needs expand.
Affordable
LSN prides itself on achieving cost effective network solutions for those budget constrained and non-constrained Customers across Oregon and Washington.
A Better Communications Environment
Business communications demands are not confined to metropolitan areas. The need for rural telecommunications is expanding rapidly as businesses rely more on Web 2.0 applications. LSN works with customers to implement viable telecommunications systems that help them to remain competitive, manage networks, automate processes, and integrate communications with limited staffing or capital resources. LSN provides networking solutions throughout the Pacific Northwest that are unsurpassed.
End-to-End Solutions
Whether you’re trying to determine when to take advantage of the latest IP technologies, how to better secure your business network, or how to simplify and consolidate your networks, LSN can manage your critical communications needs so you can focus on running your business.
Solutions for Businesses
For businesses with locations in metropolitan and rural areas, LSN can help your business with: Fully managed Converged Network solutions that integrate VoIP, SIP trunking and unified communications services, local and long distance, Internet access and Wide Area Network services into one end-to-end solution. Wide area networking solutions to securely connect multiple locations and support a broad range of networking solutions with MPLS IP-VPN or Ethernet VPLS and EoMPLS solutions High-performance Internet services for direct, business-grade connectivity to the Internet
For more information on LSN go to www.lsnetworks.net/products or contact ECS.
About ECS
ECS, located in Auburn, WA & Portland, OR is a team of experts ready to help businesses with the important and often complicated decision of finding the best communication solutions for their company, from voice to data. Servicing Washington & Oregon, ECS is a “one stop shop” for network infrastructure needs. ECS designs & installs flexible cabling infrastructures that support multiple voice, data, video and multimedia systems regardless of their manufacturer.