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| 10.1 |  | Ethernet Solutions for Transparent LAN Services |
| 10.1.3 |  | Inter-metro LAN transport |

As applications evolve, bandwidth needs increase. This increases the need for customer bandwidth across the wide area as well as internally. TLS allows the service provider to offer high-speed wide-area connectivity in a native LAN technology which the customer understands and already supports.

Speeds up to OC-192 can provide wire-speed Gigabit connectivity. Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet over optical connections between two enterprise locations are now quite common.