Ride the Waves
Wet suited people use these to ride liquid waves towards the shore
What is a surfboard
Bring one of these to every customer meeting and it will increase your chances of getting business
What is an SE / SME or overlay
The stock symbol of the "crappy 2nd rate" telecommunications carrier Sales Director Michael Degloma worked at prior to coming to CenturyLink
What is VZ
When talking to a customer, these types of questions will usually get you the most information
What are open ended questions
This Lumen SDWAN offering is offered only as fully managed
What is Cisco SDWAN (Viptela)
This Empire RE Sales Director traded in his long time convertible for a Jeep - and likes it!
Who is Pat Purcell
Although decreasing in sales due to SDWAN, this four letter acronym for private network allows for QOS and performance SLAs
What is MPLS
When direct connecting to AWS, these three network access methods are allowed via CenturyLink CloudConnect
What is Wavelength, Ethernet or MPLS
Approximately 2200
What is the amount of data centers Lumen is globally connected to
Although it does share a striking resemblance, SE Ozzie Kuscan's Teams picture is actually this bat biting Heavy Metal vocalist
Who is Ozzy Osbourne
This Wavelength option, where Lumen provides a secondary diverse path, is managed by Lumen and uses completely different POPs from the primary path.
What is a Protected Wave
This Lumen Sales Director is the only Sales Director on the Empire RE sales team whose favorite football team has not won a Super Bowl since Nixon was president
Who is John Widman
Dynamic Capacity provides scalability for customers by allowing them to change bandwidth on demand up to this number
What is 3X
Not to be confused with ANS, this Autonomous Systems Number (ASN) is the "go forward" for Lumen Internet services
What is 3356
The four SDWAN platforms Lumen currently can offer to a customer
What are Versa (Lumen SDWAN), Viptela (Cisco SDWAN), Meraki and VeloCloud
This high bandwidth wave is the largest you can sell
What is 100G
The name of the service where a customer can get one access circuit and have connections to both IPVPN and Internet
What is multiport
This global certification designates that Lumens Ethernet service has redundancy, scalability and end-to-end-SLAs
What is MEF CE 2.0
When upgrading DIA from FastE to a GigE port for a customer that wants to re-use their existing IP block, to get processed, what should you ask for?
What is an IP Justification form
Although many people wrongly believe SDWAN can provide Quality of Service because of route selection, this is the ONLY Lumen service that provides for up to six levels of QOS
What is IPVN (MPLS)
The Lumen non-protected wavelength availability SLA
What is 99.45
More than just an internet gateway, this virtualized firewall, IDS, IPS and full featured security solution provides private network customers a fully managed, co-managed or self service experience at the network level
What is Adaptive Network Security (ANS)
This Lumen ethernet service is multiplexed and provides a hub and spoke type (point to multi-point) architecture.
What is EVPL
This Lumen CloudConnect feature allows customers to "spin up" and "spin down" VLANS on demand to additional cloud workloads
What is Dynamic Connections
Of Gemini, Cancer or Leo, the astrological sign of Senior Sales Director Michele LaBuda
What is Cancer