What Are Leased Lines

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i>There are many benefits       lines work for you? And what
of leased lines and below       types of communications transport
will explain and help make      are they good for?

you understand these reasons.

Installation and
A leased line is a type of Setup

telecommunications line

Connecting a permanent leased
connecting two locations. It is       line requires installation of a
also known as a dedicated line, a     fixed line to your building. This
data line, or a private line.         24 hour service requires an
Unlike traditional telephony          annual rental fee and no
communication lines, it does not      connection or on-line charges to
have a phone number connection,       use the service. A dedicated line
and therefore is always on 24/7       provides a back bone structure so
and available for each side to be     that you can be assured that it
connected together permanently.       can handle the fast and direct
Leased lines traditionally are        connection straight to the
used to transport data such as        internet or your managed host
telephone, data, or internet          server. Installation also
services.                             requires that a router or hub be
Although leased lines are             installed in your building. A
gradually being replaced by DSL       router or hub provides the
and Ethernet, they do still have      gateway onto the internet line. A
some unique properties that make      router should be provided with
them ideal for certain types of       all leased lines.

communications which are not

A good Company will guarantee
suited for other types of             a desiccated bandwidth with
connections since leased lines        leased line speeds of no less
can transport certain types of        than 2mb/s and more than 34mb/s.
data faster than DSL or               High bandwidth often boasts of
metro-net. So how can leased          Ethernet from 10mbps to well over

1gbps. The latency is reduced         such services as video,
with high levels of service that      broadcasting, linking mainframes,
remain constant and predictable.      intranet applications, and bulk
Ad all this up to the fixed rate      data comms solutions.

charges for usage for easy

Two levels of services are
budgeting and you have a often offered.

fantastic service.

These being Standard

The leased line allows you to and Fully Protected.

connect separate office locations

The Standard service
so that your offices and other        should provide you 99.95%
buildings can share data and          availability so if any problems
connections. The higher speeds        should occur you can be
allow your teams to be productive     guaranteed alternative routing so
thus being more effective. With       that the services are not
your business locations               interrupted.

interconnectivity you can even

With the Fully
have peer to peer VoIP calling        Protected service you get
services and even share data and      close to 100% availability, with
services within your servers. All     complete protection on every
for one price!

element of your

These lines are an ideal network.

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