New Edge Networks is a single-source national provider of secure multi-site managed data networks and dedicated Internet access for businesses and communications carriers.

New Edge Networks seamlessly integrates a wide variety of last-mile broadband access services available through multiple carriers, technologies, and geographic regions worldwide. Its customers include telecom carriers, small to midsize businesses, large corporations, and their telecommuters anywhere. New Edge Networks owns a nationwide multi-services network with more than 850 carrier-class switches and Internet routers. It has one of the country's largest coverage footprints with a strong presence in small and midsize markets.

New Edge Competitive Positioning
New Edge is a nationwide CLEC (Competitive Local Exchange Carrier) provider of business-class DSL and T1 services that owns and operates its own equipment in thousands of phone company central offices. The only other nationwide DSL provider is Covad.

New Edge is the highest rated nationwide CLEC according to Broadband Reports.

Private Networks: Many industries, including retailers, banking, franchises, and credit card authorization networks, have needs for traditional private networks and use technologies such as Frame Relay, ATM, or Point-to-Point T1, but have been unable to take advantage of the dramatic cost savings offered by DSL services. New Edge has flexible and strong solutions for building private networks that leverage the low cost of DSL lines. New Edge can create traditional type networks such as ATM, Frame Relay, and private IP using low-cost DSL transport services. This can represent a substantial savings for companies who still depend on legacy networks. By eliminating the need for traditional VPN equipment and the associated support requirements, a private network configuration is a smart alternative for many applications.

For large networks, New Edge can offer a fully managed network structure that allows companies to outsource all of their network management.

For organizations deploying latency and performance sensitive applications, like VoIP, video conferencing, or core operational applications, companies can deploy new Edge Multi-protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network services technology to gain the full advantages of Class of Service (COS) traffic prioritization and bandwidth management. In addition to MPLS, companies can deploy full end-to-end ATM transport technology for latency-sensitive applications, including DSL transport.

New Edge can offer higher speed services including fractional DS3 in 3 mbps increments up to 45 mbps, full DS3 45 mbps, OC-3 (155 mbps), OC-12 (621 mbps), Fast Ethernet (100 mbps), and gig Ethernet (1000 mbps).

New Edge Wide Area Networking Services
New Edge is a single source for all your data needs throughout the nation and worldwide. New Edge Wide Area Networking Services available through Progent include:

• Frame Relay Services
  Frame relay is a proven service used for over a decade for secure transmission of data for many commercial and government applications. It provides secure transmission without exposing your data to the Internet and offers Quality of Service controls that aren't available from other solutions. New Edge frame relay also eliminates the service quality variability and the administrative burdens associated with other services while maintaining an aggressive price structure.

• Frame Relay over DSL
  New Edge's Frame Relay over DSL (FRoDSL) service allows you to replace existing frame relay without sacrificing the performance or dependability. New Edge's 192k FRoDSL services can cost less than half of what other carriers charge for 56k frame relay, which means higher speeds at less cost. New Edge's FRoDSL product provides a business-class frame relay solution over Next Edge's own nationwide ATM network.

• ATM
  New Edge carries ATM services on one of the world's largest, densest, and most robust ATM networks. There are over 600 ATM switches deployed in the network, more ATM switches in North America than the two largest national carriers combined.

• Private Line Services
  Private Line Services feature high speed, high quality, reliability, and seamless security. New Edge offers a premier solution for transmitting data-intensive applications. Dedicated point-to-point private connections deliver the efficiency and value required for all your business communications, especially those that demand real-time capability, such as voice and video.