| Business have many choices today when it comes to | | | | time. Your business, which is your lively hood and the |
| internet connectivity. They can go with a T1 Line, | | | | lifeblood of your employees gets the same attention |
| business class DSL or they can even go with cable. | | | | and priority as restoring cable TV service for your |
| DSL and Cable are considerably cheaper than a | | | | grand ma. |
| dedicated line, so why are many business owners still | | | | T1 service providers only have business clients. They |
| decide to go with the more expensive solution. | | | | understand what down time can do to a business and |
| The answer is simple. If you need reliable internet | | | | their well trained specialist are doing everything to |
| connectivity with guaranteed quality of service and | | | | restore your dedicated line. You are their number one |
| guaranteed actual usable capacity you really don't | | | | priority and they are able to put considerable |
| have a choice. | | | | resources behind fixing your problems, because they |
| A T1 line is also called a dedicated line. It is a virtual | | | | are actually getting paid enough to be able to do so. |
| point to point connection between you and your | | | | Most T1 service providers also offer service |
| service providers data center. You are the only one | | | | guarantees. You may even be able to negotiate |
| using that connection. There is no neighbor | | | | penalties and financial incentives for the service |
| downloading thousands of songs and videos while you | | | | provider to bring you back online as fast as they can. |
| are trying to talk to your business partner overseas | | | | Depending on the use case for your internet |
| using high quality VOIP. | | | | connection you may also want to think about if you |
| DSL and Cable are shared internet connections. Unlike | | | | need fast upload and fast download speeds. DSL |
| the dedicated lines you have to share the bandwidth | | | | typically only provide acceptable speeds for |
| with anybody that is using the internet in your | | | | downloads but is painfully slow on uploads. Yes it is |
| neighborhood at the same time. While that is OK for | | | | true that you can buy DSL products that offer the |
| home use and may even be OK for an office if you | | | | same performance for uploads and downloads but |
| are not using the internet for any mission critical | | | | now you are basically looking at comparable prices |
| applications. It definitely is not acceptable if your | | | | too. |
| business depends on being able to access the intern. | | | | So why does it make sense to pay the few extra |
| Another great argument for the more costly dedicated | | | | dollars for a T1 Line? If peace of mind and the |
| solution is reliability. DSL and Cable are in essence | | | | assurance of uninterrupted business operations is not |
| consumer companies. They worry about how many | | | | enough reason for you, maybe you should also take |
| people are effected by a service outage and schedule | | | | the above arguments into account. A dedicated line |
| their restoration efforts based on how they can bring | | | | can be a life line for many businesses! |
| back the most people or households in the shortest | | | | |