FairPoint Dedicated Internet Service Enhancements

Enhance your dedicated Internet service with a selection of customizable offerings.

Burstable

  • Great for billing flexibility if bandwidth needs vary from day to day or month to month
  • Customers receive full access to line bandwidth and are charged for the amount of bandwidth that is used on a sustained level (95th percentile)

Burstable Select

  • Great for billing flexibility if bandwidth needs vary from day to day or month to month
  • Allows the customer to specify a bandwidth commitment and to be billed to the nearest 1 Mbps for any usage over the commitment in a given month
  • Customers are charged for the amount of bandwidth that is used on a sustained level (95th percentile)

Tiered

  • Fixed monthly pricing based on bandwidth tier
  • Full circuit provisioned at the time of install
  • Bandwidth capped at desired level, with easy upgrade to the next tier

Price-Protected

  • Provides full access line bandwidth at all times with a single, flat monthly cost
  • Designed for businesses requiring the full bandwidth of a circuit on a sustained level
  • Ideal for a company that needs to budget a steady monthly cost

Diverse

  • Designed to accommodate customers whose primary concern is redundancy
  • We will attempt to provision two access lines to different FairPoint-owned high-speed hubs
  • Available for T-1, T-3, OC-3, OC-12, and OC-48

Double

  • Designed to accommodate customers whose primary concern is for additional bandwidth
  • We will provision both access lines to the same FairPoint-owned hub and the same GW router
  • Available for T-1, T-3, OC-3, OC-12, and OC-48

Shadow

  • Redundant service option that provides an automatic backup connection in the event of a primary access line failure
  • A second access line is commissioned from the customer premise to FairPoint's backbone
  • BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) MEDs (Multi-Exit Discriminators) are used to reroute traffic in an outage situation
  • Available for T1, T3, OC-3, OC-12, and OC-48

To learn more about FairPoint Dedicated Internet or to order service, call 1.866.984.4001.