We’re seeing ever more businesses choose a 50Mb Leased Line. Here’s why. The Price of a 50Mb Leased Line Has Fallen 50Mb leased lines have become cheaper due to advances in optical networking and economies of scale resulting from ISPs investing to meet the increased demand for consumer broadband. Improvements in electronics have also played
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A 10MB leased line is a point-to-point dedicated data connection with a speed of 10Mbit/s available in both directions. Why are 10MB leased lines so popular? It’s enough bandwidth for converged communications 10MB is one of the most popular speeds for leased lines, because it provides enough bandwidth to simultaneously carry some Internet traffic, some
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A 100MB leased line is a point-to-point symmetric data connection that offers a connection speed of 100Mbit/s. Cost Comparison A 100MB leased line costs about twice as much as 10MB one, which in turn cost just over twice as much as a 2MB connection. As connectivity costs fall, many IT Managers choose to upgrade their
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A 1Gbps Leased Line is a leased line with a connection speed of 1Gbit/s, in other words one that connects at 1000Mbit/s. You’ve no-doubt seen the ads for ‘super-fast’ broadband at downstream speeds of 20Mbit/s or 50Mbit/s. For home users, that’s super-fast. But businesses that need to replicate or backup vast amounts of data quickly
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A 2MB leased line is a point-to-point dedicated data circuit that offers a speed of 2Mbit/s upstream and 2Mbit/s downstream. The Old Standard? 2MB is the lowest speed offered by most leased line providers. For many years 2MB was the most popular speed for a leased line. However, as leased line prices fell through the
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DS3 line is a Digital Signal Level 3 T-carrier. Still none the wiser? In English, a DS3 line is a 44.736Mbit/s data circuit used in North America, Japan and South Korea. In the UK, the nearest equivalent is an E3, which transmits at 34.368Mbit/s. However you’ll seldom encounter an E3, as Ethernet has now become
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Leased lines typically have speeds of 1Mbps to 10Gbps. The most common leased line speed is 2Mbps. However, 10Mbps and 100Mbps are becoming increasingly common. A faster connection for the same price? When connectivity prices fall, many IT Managers prefer to increase their leased line speeds for free, rather than take a price cut and
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An OC3 line is a leased line transmitting at 155.52Mbit/s. It has a payload of 148.608Mbit/s, and an overhead of 6.912Mbit/s. OC stands for Optical Carrier. The ’3′ refers to the speed: an OC3 line is three times as fast as an OC1 line. The ‘optical’ bit refers to a Synchronous Optical Networking (SONET) fiber
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