Create and Manage Lumen Ethernet on Demand EVCs

In this lesson we'll create and manage Ethernet on Demand connections from the EoD Orders tab. Ethernet on Demand builds private Layer 2 links called EVCs. An EVC can connect two of your own ports, or link one of your ports to a cloud or data center partner. The page has two tabs.

Create EVC is where you build a new connection, and EVC History lists the ones you already have. We'll start with Create EVC. First, the account. Your customer number comes from Settings.

Then choose the billing account for this connection, and Apptifi loads the ports that belong to it. Give the EVC a short, recognizable name, up to fifty characters, like newark-to-chicago. The A-End is where the connection starts. Pick one of your M-UNI ports from the list.

The Z-End is the other side. Choose another of your M-UNI ports for a site-to-site link, or a Partner Interconnect, such as a cloud provider, from the North American list. If you pick an Azure connection, Apptifi switches on the high-availability option Azure requires, with two EVCs. For a port-to-port EVC, enter one CE VLAN.

Apptifi shows the VLAN ranges that are free and checks your choice on both ports, so you'll know right away if it's taken. Next, choose how you'd like to be billed, hourly or monthly, and pick a class of service: Basic, Enhanced, or Dedicated. Now pick the bandwidth. Each option shows its price for the billing type and class of service you chose, and the list only offers speeds that both ends can support.

Finally, enter the email of the person requesting the EVC and click Create EVC. Apptifi sends the request to Lumen and then takes you to the EVC History tab, where you can watch it come up. For this example, we won't submit. Now let's manage the EVCs you already have.

Open the EVC History tab. Every EVC appears in this table, with its name, status, bandwidth, both ends, and billing type. The status badge tells you where each one stands. Green means it's active.

Amber means Lumen is still creating or changing it. Red means it's been disconnected or something went wrong. The A-End and Z-End columns show the port names, with the street address and site underneath. For a partner connection, the Z-End shows the partner, like this one to AWS.

Port-to-port EVCs can have their bandwidth scheduled, just like Internet on Demand. Click the calendar button on a row to open its scheduling panel. Here you can pause or enable scheduling, and set the baseline the EVC returns to between events. Last shows the speed Apptifi most recently set.

Click the events button to choose which scheduled events drive this EVC. If you use circuit groups, events are grouped by group. Tick an event to link it, and untick it to remove it. Preview Schedule shows what's coming up.

When you no longer need an EVC, use the trash button on its row. Apptifi asks you to confirm first, because deleting an EVC can't be undone. Use the refresh button to load the latest status from Lumen, for example while a new EVC is being created. That's Ethernet on Demand: create EVCs, track their status, schedule their bandwidth, and remove them when you're done.

Next up is the IoD API tab.