Our Services
We are a middle-mile service provider to Columbia County.
Co-location Services
If you need a fully-equipped colocation facility in Columbia County Georgia or the Augusta, Georgia Metro Area, look no further than C3BU. With connections to many major carriers, providers, e-commerce sites, Internet gateways and other colocation facilities, C3BU has you covered. C3BU has multiple colocation sites with space available in Columbia County, Georgia.
Building Features
C3BU’s carrier-class colocation services provide secure rack space for fiber electronics equipment. Most building locations have the following features:
24/7 unescorted access with secured key-card access for colocation customers
24/7 monitoring of facility, including temperature, power, access, humidity, and remote camera surveillance
Carrier Neutral facilities with 100% uptime
Diesel generator backup, all monitored 24/7
Carrier-grade grounding of all racks and electrical systems with master ground bars
DC power systems with dual A&B feeds. Inverted AC power available at extra cost at some locations
Diverse fiber feeds to provide reliable, redundant access to C3BU fiber network
All Fiber-Optic
Only fiber-optic cable is allowed to route into C3BU’s facilities. No coaxial, copper or other media is allowed to penetrate a C3BU facility. Inside the facility, C3BU provides single mode (SC or LC) fiber cross connects in addition to coaxial or copper cross connects.
Power
Customers who collocate in a C3BU facility are provided with 30amps redundant DC power – A&B feeds, with a maximum of 100 amps per rack. C3BU provides access to AC convenience circuits, 19 inch or 23 inch racks, and secure key-card access.
C3BU offers inverted AC power for an additional monthly charge at some locations. Additional power is available, and multiple racks can be installed if space is available. C3BU has the ability to upgrade or expand the facilities as customer and network needs dictate.
Dark Fiber Services
Our Dark Fiber service enable your organization to have virtually unlimited bandwidth, and maximum control and security for your networks. C3BU provides the fiber strands between your termination points, and you provide and maintain your own equipment, allowing for network scalability and flexibility.
Benefits of Dark Fiber
Our Dark Fiber networks allows your organization the maximum flexibility to implement your own services, including determining the bandwidth, SLAs, selecting your own equipment, and managing your service. Dark Fiber networks also provide the highest level of security by dedicating fiber strands for your applications. Dark Fiber customers have access to C3BU’s networking experience in designing, building, and managing advanced networks to ensure you have the optimal solution.
Features of Dark Fiber
Virtually unlimited bandwidth
You provide and maintain your own equipment, allowing for network scalability and flexibility
Dedicated strands of fiber provide unparalleled security
You have direct operational control of your network
Ability to replace equipment as technology advances, so your network is never outdated
Direct Internet Access
Reliable internet service is a more critical network need than ever before because organizations are increasingly dependent on internet/cloud-based applications and data for day-to-day operations and strategic decision-making. Enhanced productivity and costs savings are necessary to remain competitive in this fast-paced, on-demand, immediate-response environment. Secure Dedicated Internet Access over optical Ethernet ensures on-demand access to the sensitive information and advanced tools that businesses need as a foundation for success.
Internet connectivity can make or break a business. Employees are dependent upon high-speed access and customers expect it. C3BU’s fiber-optic backbone was built to offer you a consistent, reliable dedicated Internet service backed by Service Level Agreements (SLAs) guaranteeing uptime, latency and packet delivery. We carefully monitor capacity-to-utilization for optimal bandwidth availability to prevent congestion and ensure service is consistently available.
Our extensive and diverse network delivers built-in resiliency with redundant routers at our network core and edge along with our geographically-distributed peering to numerous other backbone providers. This connectivity provides you with direct, low latency links to many of the largest Internet content providers with the fewest network hops possible.
Our Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) products ensure secure, scalable, high-speed internet connectivity for carriers and resellers alike. With adaptive fiber-optic solutions over both protected and unprotected network configurations at speeds ranging from 10Mbps to 10Gbps, we can scale your services to suit your current and future networking strategies.
Ethernet Services
Our broad portfolio of Ethernet Services provides simple, cost-effective ways to connect business locations and deliver applications, data and information. By applying our expertise, your traffic can flow seamlessly over your Local Area Network (LAN) and Wide Area Network (WAN) with the performance, flexibility, and reliability that your business requires.
C3BU’s cost-effective Managed Ethernet Line (E-Line) service uses fiber optic or copper technology to connect your traffic to our highly secure and protected core Ethernet network. It is an ideal solution for your mission critical application needs, including disaster recovery and business continuity, Internet access, voice, streaming video and more. We can provide:
Ethernet Private Line (EPL) – Provides point-to-point connectivity for each circuit, ensuring dedicated transport through the network. Each circuit requires a Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) port
Ethernet Virtual Private Line (EVPL) – Reduces the need for CPE ports – by employing dedicated point-to-multipoint virtual circuits – while improving the efficiency and capabilities of network transport
Ethernet Network to Network Interface (E-NNI) – Reduces expenses by eliminating the need for multiple switch ports and physical cross-connects at your meet-me-point
Benefits of a Managed Ethernet Line
Security - Private network options allow you more control over your content
Reliability - Self-healing and fully diverse network backbone. Low latency and low packet loss to ensure data integrity
Cost Efficiency - Enjoy a lower cost-per-Mbps than legacy frame relay, ATM or optical wavelength transport
Scalability - You can easily adjust your Bandwidth options from 3 Mbps to 10Gbps, to allow your transport to grow when you need it without the expense of unused capacity
Dedicated Connection - You get the performance you pay for without connecting to the open Internet or sharing bandwidth during peak usage times with neighboring businesses
Seamless Integration - Ability to integrate data, video and voice applications onto a single network
Simplify Network Management - Unify your Local Area Network (LAN) and Wide Area Network (WAN)
Carrier Ethernet SLA Performance
Network availability 99.999%
Packet delivery 99.999%
Latency (Round Trip): Metro <15ms, Regional <50ms
Inter-Frame delay Variation(Jitter) <= to 3.0ms
Tower Services
C3BU owns and operates eight open-access communication towers. C3BU works with Wireless Internet Service Providers (WISP) to place wireless broadband transmission devices near C3BU facilities to help them expand wireless broadband coverage to their customers. These towers are designed to support public safety communications, colocation needs of wireless broadband and cellular providers to use for wireless Internet service, and microwave backhaul.
C3BU’s network is connected to the towers within its footprint to support data transport for emergency communications, multiple wireless and cellular providers.
Services include:
Monthly lease for tower attachments: single attachments or full RAD center
Ground lease for placing a tenant’s cabinet or communications hut
Colocation of equipment in C3BU’s owned cabinet or POP, where available
Fiber lateral with Ethernet transport services or dark fiber lease from tower back to C3BU’s POP