EFM Now Available
Our brand new EFM (Ethernet in the First Mile) product is now available in over 1800 UK Exchanges. This revolutionary business service provides fibre-optic quality connectivity for a fraction of the cost.
Fluency’s new EFM product uses a new connectivity technology, providing features, performance and reliability only previously available from expensive fibre-optic based products.
EFM uses multiple copper pairs to provide connectivity from the local telephone exchange to the customer’s premises. While many service providers provide a similar service by bonding traditional DSL lines together at the Layer 3 level, Fluency’s EFM bonds the lines at the physical layer, providing a much cleaner service.
Fluency EFM provides fully symmetric, full-duplex bandwidth. There are two versions of the product available that use two and four copper pairs to achieve speeds of up to 10 and 20 megabits per second respectively. Speeds are distance variable, however, most metropolitan areas can achieve at least 80% of the maximum speed.
As this is a real Ethernet service, delivery is RJ45 at the customer’s premises, on a rack-mountable Ethernet Demarcation Device (EDD). At the moment, Fluency only offer Internet delivery over EFM. However, testing is underway to provide a new Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) product that allows multiple EFM and Fibre Ethernet services to be combined to provide a LAN Extension service. In addition, breakout at any Fluency Point of Presence (PoP) will be possible for colocation and virtualisation customers. Also, Fluency hope to offer inter-site VLANs over EFM to allow further enhancement of the LAN Extension application.