What is an Internet Leased Line?
What is an Internet Leased Line? Telecoms Supermarket explains...
An Internet leased line is a dedicated, fixed bandwidth, symmetric data connection. We will explain this in more details below.
What is an Internet leased line used for?
An Internet leased line is typically used to connect an office or business with dedicated Internet connection which is un-metered and unlimited usage. This kind of un-contended connection comes with providers service level agreement (SLA).
What is an Internet leased line used for?
Businesses use leased lines to:
• Connect to the Internet
• Link PCs and servers in different corporate offices (Point to Point circuit)
• Carry phone calls (VoIP calls)
• Enable staff to connect to their work PC's from home (Remote working)
Internet leased lines offer dedicated speeds which means that all along the route of your leased line, the speed you ordered has been reserved solely for your use. Unlike broadband connections, the bandwidth provided does not fall at peak times, when other customers of the same ISP try to use their broadband connection at the same time as you.
Internet leased lines offer symmetric speeds which means you can upload and download the data at the same fast speed.
- This can be useful if staff need to:
- • Access their work PC’s desktops from home
- • Send large files Upload sizeable files to your web sites
- • Backup data using online services
- • Hosting web site locally on server in your premises
- • Use VoIP telephony
What are typical speeds delivered on Internet leased line?
Starting from 4Mbps, customers order anything from 10Mbps to 1Gbps depending upon their requirements. 20Mbps to 100Mbps are the most popular connection speeds.
What is cost of an Internet leased line?
The Internet leased line cost can be advised once the feasibility checks are done.
This depends on:
• The speed of connection you want
• Your location and
• The length of the contract you are willing to sign
Advantages of an Internet leased line (compared to Broadband)
• Faster download speeds are usually available
• Faster upload speeds
• Connections that don’t slow down at peak times
• Greater reliability
• Better support
Disadvantages of an Internet leased line (compared to Broadband) Cost –
• Leased line costs have fallen, but Internet leased lines are still a LOT more expensive than broadband connections.
• Installation times – Internet leased lines may take about 4-6 weeks to install rather than 2-3 days for broadband.
• Physical Installation – Installing leased lines is also more complex than installing Broadband, as broadband can be provided over a pre-existing circuit (your phone line). An Internet leased line will require a new circuit, and is likely to require some additional work to connect your building.
Internet leased line can deliver higher and more consistent speeds than broadband, the difference is usually felt most when it comes to the upload speeds. Dedicated connections are symmetric. This means that Internet leased line offers the same upload speed as download speed. Slow upload speed is the primary reason for upgrading to Internet leased line from a painful slow inadequate broadband connection to a more expensive but higher capacity dedicated line, for many businesses.
The Internet service providers actively monitor Internet leased line connections 24x7, ensuring that if a line goes down, the Network Operations Centre (NOC) can be alerted automatically, allowing troubleshooting to start straight away and downtime to be minimised.
Internet leased line can not only connect your business with Internet but also carry telephone calls, video conferencing streams and WAN traffic. Traditionally, businesses connect their telephone system to the public telephone network using expensive PRI circuits. By using an Internet leased line and SIP Trunking, businesses can often give up legacy PRI circuits, sending their phone calls over a cheaper un-contended circuit instead.
Internet leased line - Typical Speeds The most popular speeds for an Internet leased line connection in India are 10Mb, 20Mb and 100Mb.
High bandwidth connections are usually provisioned exclusively over fibre or Radio Frequency (RF). Lower bandwidth connections, such as 2mbps or 10mbps leased lines, can also be provisioned over copper depending upon the availability of fibre.
The cost of Internet leased line is falling
New technologies and mass production of optical networking equipment and cables are causing a gradual fall in the cost of un-contended Internet leased line connections. The requirements of dedicated speeds as more and more of cloud services has made businesses to opt in for Internet leased line. ISP's are making huge investments in fibre laying, network capacity & fibre equipment which has resulted in the cost of Internet leased lines going down.
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