Leased Line Providers Guide – How To Pick The Perfect Provider

There are many UK leased line providers you can choose from, including…

• hSo
• BT
• Virgin Media
• Colt
• Easynet
• Eclipse
• Entanet
• Zen
• Vaioni
• Claranet
• Spitfire
• TalkTalk Business
• Daisy
• Vodafone
• Gamma

Key questions to consider when choosing between leased line providers include…

• What are the hours of support? 9 to 5? 24/7?
• What Service Level Agreements are provided?
• Is the company primarily concerned with serving consumers or businesses?
• Can they free to provide circuits from more than one carrier, to get you the best price and offer resilience options?
• Do they have an MPLS core network?

Leased line providers work closely with companies called 'carriers' to deliver a leased line to you.

The carrier will is the division of a telecoms company that physically digs up the road and lays down fibre or copper cable.

Leased line providers do the rest of the work. They…

• design the solution
• order the underlying circuits
• subsidise the installation costs
• buy and configure the equipment used at both ends of the circuits
• test the circuits
• support the equipment
• monitor the circuits
• provide first-line support for circuit faults
• add Internet access (i.e. Internet transit and peering) if required
• connect the leased line to your other leased lines to create a corporate WAN and
• invoice you

Leased line providers may also be able to deliver useful services over your leased line, including…

• Internet access
• Telephony (SIP Trunking)
• Online Backup