T3 Dedicated Internet For Business
High speed connections for video,
servers, VPNs and corporate Internet access.
Connections to the Internet come in two
flavors, shared and dedicated. DSL and Cable Broadband fall into
the shared category. Subscribers are multiplexed, or connected
as a shared group, to a common backbone Internet connection.
To keep access prices low, more connections are sold than there
is bandwidth to support. The arrangement, called oversubscription,
works because not everyone is downloading files or even online
simultaneously. If too many users do try the access the Internet,
the connection speed simply slows down. In cases of extreme congestion,
time critical feeds such as VoIP telephone or streaming audio
and video will break up.
Dedicated Internet Connections For Bandwidth
Control
Businesses with critical applications such as online transactions,
Enterprise VoIP telephony, web and email servers, video conferencing,
Intranets and Extranets need a more robust connection to the
Internet. That's the dedicated variety. A dedicated Internet
connection offers full Internet bandwidth to the limit of the
service level you order. It is "dedicated" to your
needs. For smaller businesses, a T1 line at 1.5 Mbps will suffice.
For larger businesses or high bandwidth applications, a T3 line
at 45 Mbps is appropriate. T3 is also known as DS3 service when
it is provisioned on a fiber optic carrier.
The advantage of dedicated Internet connections
is more than just bandwidth. It's the fact that you have control
of the bandwidth. With a dedicated connection, your videoconference
won't break up just because the business next door decides to
download major software updates. Their bandwidth is separate
from yours. In a way, though, the bandwidth is still shared.
It's shared among the users in your company.
You Still Need In-House QoS
This means that you'll still need to engineer your network to
provide a Quality of Service that prioritizes time critical services
such as voice and video over applications such as email, file
transfers and Web browsing. Within your organization you can
rigorously guarantee network performance and proper priorities.
Once you packets are on the Internet, though, you lose a certain
amount of control. Congestion, latency and dropped packets are
normal for this environment. Buying enough dedicated bandwidth
is the best you can do for using the public infrastructure. Encrypting
your data to create VPN tunnels will give you a virtual private
network for your employees, partners, clients and suppliers.
However, for the most rigorous control of bandwidth, jitter,
latency and packet loss you'll have to move up from virtual private
networks to fully private point to point connections.
Dedicated T3 lines are often used as the
backbone Internet connections for Internet Service Providers
such as DSL, Cable broadband and WISPS (wireless). They can provide
general Internet access for companies with hundreds of employees
online. They are also a good choice for in-house or colocated
Web, email, fax, streaming audio and streaming video servers.
Higher speed services include Fast Ethernet WANs at 100 Mbps
and OC3 SONET fiber optic lines at 622 Mbps. All of these can
be provisioned as dedicated Internet connections or point to
point private lines.
Dedicated Internet or P2P Private Line?
What dedicated Internet or private line connections are right
for your company? Why not let our team of technical experts help
you decide and give you quotes for the best prices on whatever
line services you need? No cost or obligation for this service,
of course. Simply enter an online quote request or call a business
bandwidth expert toll free, as a service of T1 Rex.
Contact us anytime, even after traditional
business hours, by calling 1-866-436-7868. Our expert
consultant will ask for Reference Code: 1265 for this
complimentary service. Or, simply use this handy inquiry form:
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