The Business Communications Minefield

Leased Line Technology

A leased line or dedicated line is a permanent telephone connection set up between two points for private use.

Leased lines are dedicated lines (ie have 1:1 contention ratios) and are typically used to connect two geographically separate branch offices together. As they work over fibre optics, they have none of the copper limitations of SDSL and so can have speeds up to 100Mb/s.

Leased lines typically cost three to five times more than SDSL lines.

In Summary

If you are looking at purchasing internet or branch office connectivity, your three main options are:- 

• ADSL which is only good if you have very minimal uploads (ie you don’t send many emails or the files you send are quite small).
• SDSL which gives good upload and download speeds which is excellent for SME businesses
• Leased line technology if you require upload and download speeds over 2Mb/s

This special report is sponsored by www.lanix.co.uk.  If you would like a follow on report on components that affect your broadband speed and how to resolve them please email broadband@lanix.co.uk
 

Ben Chai is a renowned international IT expert and trainer having been editor of over ten IT magazines and taught a wide variety of courses in security and Microsoft products. He is co-owner of incomingthought.com and the content director for www.itproportal.com