Re: [CGUYS] T1 Line

[John DeCarlo]

I basically agree.

The reason that you can get Business DSL or Business Cable is that there are
many businesses out there that don't offer downloads to customers, but need
to be able to do downloads, email, and other Internet access.

The thing about T1 nowadays is that you get 1.544 Mbps.

Long  ago, that was a lot.  Today, you are probably better off with more
bandwidth.

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Michel Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 The uptime guarantee might be useful for mission critical circuits; more
 appropriate is having the same bandwidth upstream and down.



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Re: [CGUYS] T1 Line

[Michel Lowe]

The uptime guarantee might be useful for mission critical circuits; more
appropriate is having the same bandwidth upstream and down.  For us home
users the big traffic is mostly downstream; we're willing to endure slow
uploads because unless you are constantly submitting videos to YouTube,
uploads are just not that frequent.  

But if you have an e-business application the roles are reversed: you're
more interested in your uploads being very snappy because they are your
customer's downloads.  I think that's the big advantage for any symmetrical
transport technology.  The bandwidth requirement -- T1/T3/OC-3/TLS/etc -- is
a function of your business traffic.  I've had customers who started out
with T1s and worked their way up to TLS 10Mb in one technology refresh.  It
just all depends on your traffic load.
-Mike

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Michel David Lowe 



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 I was in the market for a T1 line a while back and was told it was more
appropriate for
 business use (as opposed to DSL) due to guaranteed up times and bandwidth.
 
 --- On Fri, 6/13/08, Tom Piwowar wrote:
 I need a technology update. Somebody just asked me about dropping DSL for
 a T1 line.
 
 Is not T1 old infrastructure that phone vendors are looking to unload on
 the unwary? I know that T1 is regulated and comes with SLAs (Service
 Level Agreements), but I think that would have little meaning to most
 customers and would just make it more expensive than equivalent-speed
DSL.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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