Bidders shall provide pricing for leased data circuits with end-to-end connectivity between the endpoints and bandwidths itemized in Appendix A. The A and Z -Endpoints for each circuit shall be at the addresses listed in Appendix A. Bidders may bid on any or all A-Endpoints but may choose to omit one or more A-Endpoints. Each A-endpoint will be awarded with their corresponding Z-endpoint. The Z-endpoints can be an existing or new NNI established at the address of the ARE-ON POP shown in Appendix-A. Alternately, the Z-endpoint may be provisioned as a point-to-point circuit. (ARE-ON prefers an NNI be provisioned but not required.) Each circuit shall provide a Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) through a Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network with Layer 2 Ethernet connectivity between the endpoints. Each circuit shall be provisioned as an ethernet data circuit with a logical Layer 2 Virtual Private Network (L2VPN) connection between the A-Endpoints and the Z-Endpoint. The speed of network traffic over each circuit shall be fully symmetric, that is, able to sustain transmission of data to the full capacity of the provisioned circuit in both directions simultaneously. Vendors shall not oversubscribe the bandwidth of any physical circuit to an endpoint. That is, the bandwidth provided by a physical circuit must be at least the total of the bandwidth of all logical circuit(s) provisioned over the physical circuit. All circuits will terminate into an appropriate demarcation point to a customer-owned CPE device. That is, the demarcation point for each circuit shall be the Ethernet hand-off to the CPE device at each endpoint. The physical connections at the demarcation point at the A-Endpoints (i.e., the hand-off to the Are-ON-owned CPE router) shall be 1 Gbps Ethernet utilizing single mode fiber with 10km optics. The physical connections at the demarcation point at the Z-Endpoints (i.e., the hand-off to the ARE-ON owned CPE router at the ARE-ON POPs) shall be 1Gbps or 10Gbps Ethernet single mode fiber with 10km optics. All circuits shall support transmission of Ethernet jumbo frames with a payload of up to 9,000 bytes in size. All circuits shall support 802.1Q (or dot1Q) tunneling, that is, the customer’s ability to define and preserve VLAN tags on frames transmitted over the circuit without the vendor’s provisioning or intervention.
