New wholesale service helps regional ISPs take on global carriers.

Tiscali International Network, a carrier dedicated to the wholesale IP-MPLS market, today announced that it is launching its Ethernet Extension product, to offer international connectivity to regional providers, Value added Resellers and System Integrators serving the corporate market. The company says that Ethernet Extension service will offer TINet customers with connectivity into all major international destinations. It also says that this will allow a number of regional providers to finally have an edge over their larger global competitors.

The company articulates that TINet Ethernet Extension is scalable and delivers end-to-end connectivity right down to the end users. The service allows Regional service providers, as well as VARs and SIs, to offer scalable and cost effective services such as Virtual Private Network services, to their corporate customers. It further adds that the service supports overlay of QoS and other frequently used protocols hence is flexible to meet specific corporate customer needs.

Paolo Gambini, Sales and Marketing Director at TINet explains, ''We are increasingly finding that Ethernet is the most dominant technology in today's last mile access needs and most service providers will recognise Ethernet as being the standard to use. As a technology that our customers place so much importance on, we wanted to offer a product that could help them make their Ethernet offerings competitive amongst their global competitors. We are extremely excited therefore to be able to offer Ethernet Extension as a new product that not only expands our global network footprint, but also provides a level playing field to the regional providers that we work with such that they can truly compete with the big carriers.''