Metro Ethernet provides Ethernet connection among customers’ sites. It combines the cost-effectiveness of Ethernet with service delivery, traffic engineering, scalability and reliability of Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) to provide a point-to-point, any-to-any Layer 2 VPN solution.

NWT’s Metro Ethernet network performs the function of a LAN switch or bridge to connect all of the customer LANs to create a single bridged (Ethernet) LAN.