DSL, T1 or DS3 Bandwidth - What is your company?

When would you choose DSL, T1 or DS3 Bandwidth .... as a network solution for your business and why / why not? What are the pros and cons for and against each type of bandwidth in a business environment?

In general .....

The answer to these questions is really the application needs. If the applications running latency or jitter are concerned, then DSL is not able to provide the level of service you need.

A further extension of this would beare the requirements for availability. MTTR (Mean Time To Repair) is generally much improved with the DS1 and DS3 circuits.

The size of the company is not as important as the needs of your application. Many large companies can survive with DSL, or in some cases dial-up but a small organization, the traffic of streaming applications, traffic mission-critical or latency requirements or small jitter then DS1 or greater connectivity would be necessary.

Finally, if oftenFirst, it helps to determine the costs to make your decisions.

To be precise ....

T1 and DS-3 fatty acids, the same offer, except the capacity. Provide T1 1.5 Mbps upload and download speeds for the line. DS3s be 32-45Mbps upload and download.

ADSL typically give asymmetric upload and download speed (DSL) is usually 1.5, 3.0 and 6.0 Mbps download speed and somewhere between 128-768Mbps upload speed.

Symmetric DSL (SDSL) provides the same upload and downloadSpeed, typically 384, 512 or 786Mbps upload and download.

Cable offers may vary by provider and location. By comparison with it without knowing your cable provider and market impossible. Not who is your provider and your location .... but to find out how your provider is in this market. Ask a local expert on the details.

T1 and DS3 are very reliable with high MTBF (mean time between failure) and low MTTR (Mean Time To Repair). Cable and DSL for the otherPage.

T1 and DS3 expensive, cable and DSL more accessible.

If you do not need high upload speeds (VPN, VoIP, high speed data transfer to the '/ backup co-location, FTP, streaming media or other broadband services hosted in-house, etc.), then a asymmetric connection is not bad. DSL / cable can be a good choice in this case.

If you need a high speed, then download T1/DS3 is required.

Fro growing demand, fractional T1 or T3 is a good choice. After a certain point of growth, a completeT3/DS3 is cheap.

For mission-critical networks from two suppliers from two different physical points of entry may be necessary, depending on the natural disasters are likely to face.

Case study one: a company had a fractional T3 comes from the East and other fractional T3 comes from the West. Floods cut a hole and a T3. The network was slow, but up.

Case study two: a company in South Florida has lost its T1 and not through a satelliteconnection. Some services have been crippled by running the latency of the system, but their mission-critical applications.

Which brings us to the Satellite: usually asymmetrical slowly with very fast download (depending on the level of service), but usually arrive (varies depending on the level of service). It has an inherent latency due to the speed of light and the distance between the satellites. Advantage: disaster resistant, reliable, available everywhere and no problems for last mile.

Insoon ... Here are the three most important factors to consider .....

1 - Link rate of speed and committed

T1 DS3 or can be purchased as a dedicated bandwidth point to point. You can get the advertised speed from point A to point B. NOTE: If you buy guaranteed access to the Internet and via the Internet to provide connectivity (VPN, etc.) then you are buying an on-ramp, the traffic on the "road" after you, you might get slow. Just because you bought a DS3 onInternet does not mean that you have access to everything onthe Internet DS3.

2 - Symmetry Link

DS3 T1 and give the same bandwidth in both directions when configured as point to point. Different variants of DSL provide different up and downlink speed.

3 - QOS

T1 and DS3 are configured to support TDM voice (directly from your PBX). You can also support VoIP. If you intend to do with VoIP, it does not matter. If any TDM voice keep it emits aa lot.

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