onShore: Extreme Networks® and onShore Deliver High-end IP Services over Multi-Tenant Data Networks (MDNs)
onShore Networks is a systems integrator and a managed service provider that, with its innovative, turnkey technology solutions, delivers mission-critical broadband services to businesses in the Chicago area. onShore has installed multi-tenant data networks (MDNs) in four Chicago buildings in partnership with Extreme Networks: the noteworthy Monadnock Building, a state landmark, and three residential buildings – Clark Place, Dearborn Tower and Huron Pointe. With an Extreme applications infrastructure, onShore delivers broadband IP services to its building tenants quickly, securely and affordably.
onShore’s MDNs, running on multi-gigabit backplanes powered by Extreme Networks, are distributed digital frameworks that allow multiple vendors of IP-based services – including voice, data and video – to share the pipe from the building “vendor corridor” directly to each tenant’s office or home. In addition to supplying the infrastructure for these services to be provided by other companies, onShore also intends to offer voice, data and video services directly. Unlike its competitors who distribute DSL or Ethernet circuits one at a time, onShore builds the entire network infrastructure at once, so everything is in place and tenant sign-up is a snap.
“We’re coming at it from a data perspective, building the network, pulling Category 5 cable and running it to every single unit in the building. We provide Internet services over that cable, bringing in 3MB of bandwidth over two T1 lines, which feeds the entire building,” said Stelios Valavanis, President and Networking Projects Supervisor at onShore.
“onShore is the leading multi-tenant unit service provider in Chicago. Extreme makes it possible to deliver the elite IP services that make our network so valuable to subscribers.”
– Nick Valavanis, VP, and Director of Sales for onShore Networks
MDNs Provide Unmatched Speed, Services and Security
onShore’s MDNs are built on the most scalable, robust networking technology in existence: switched Ethernet delivering 100MB that can easily be expanded to 1GB, made possible with Extreme Networks.
“Since we’re building an entire network over this cable, as long as a person has a system that can handle 100MB per second, they get 100MB-per-second performance,” said Nick Valavanis, VP and Director of Sales for onShore.
onShore’s Linux-based servers support full Ethernet connectivity for file storage, automated tape backup of critical systems and IP telephony, as well as rich, streaming video and other media content that is virtually undeliverable over the narrow bandwidth of DSL, cable, T1 and shared broadband.
