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 1 Gbps bi-directional connection speed with low latency and high availability, it shall be built on a dark fibre, or on a MetroLAN Layer 2 link, or on an equivalent low latency technology; 

 network availability >= 99,9%. 

Tenderers shall fill the price grid in Appendix C, namely prices for the following bandwidth: 

 1 Gigabit/sec; 

 2 Gigabit/sec; 

 5 Gigabit/sec. 

The tenderer will be responsible for the delivery of the local loops on both sides of the link. The installation costs – if foreseen - must be included in the pricing under an initial one-off setup fee. In case new equipment needs to be installed, the tenderer can be required to share a common Telco rack with other providers already present in the EMSA and FCCN Datacentre. The details will be discussed during the implementation phase. 

Delivery shall be according to the following specs: 

1. On EMSA side: 1 Gigabit RJ-45 connection; 

2. On FCCN side: 1 Gigabit Ethernet 1000Base-LX over single-mode fibre. FCCN's equipment port is based on the connector LC/PC. 

In case a new fibre pair shall be provided, entrance to EMSA is through the following path: 

WEST entrance:  physical entrance of it will be from the conducts sited in Cais do Sodré as indicated in the chart below: 

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## SERVICE 4: Direct connection services to the main cloud service providers in their main EU Datacentres 

Dedicated direct connection from the EMSA Datacentre, in Cais do Sodré, to the cloud services of Azure and AWS in their public European datacentres might also be procured through this tender. The required service implements the so called “AWS Direct Connect”, “Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute”, or equivalent dedicated secure unrestricted direct link technology to Cloud datacentres. 

