http://www.articletrader.com/ Articles at ArticleTrader en-us http://www.articletrader.com/internet/affiliate-programs/more-businesses-are-upgrading-to-t3-ds3-connections.html http://www.articletrader.com/internet/affiliate-programs/more-businesses-are-upgrading-to-t3-ds3-connections.html Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0500 T1 line has been the standard solution thanks to their reliability and availability pretty much anywhere in the US. During the last couple of years, more growing businesses are upgrading to a T3 or DS3 connection, which is now more and more the solution of choice.

T1 connections (1.544 Mbps) and T3 connections (45 Mbps) are traditional business-class digital leased lines. The technology is pre-cable and pre-DSL. The main advantage is quality of service: If a T1 line goes down, the phone company has a much faster time of repair (usually within 4 hours) than a DSL line (could take a day or longer). Businesses rely on these broadband connections for their revenues and bottomline. A circuit down can cost thousands of dollars an hour. The T1 and T3 lines also have time-tested monitoring and diagnostic capabilities to keep them up, so they are more reliable.

A T1 line has 24 channels. Each channel can either be used for a phone line or 64 Kbps of Internet. A business can have 8 phone lines and 1024 Kbps of Internet (16 X 64 Kbps) over a T1 circuit for on average of between $300-$700.

A T3 line has 672 channels and costs several thousand dollars a month (from $2,000 to $7,000 depending on the provider and service location). The cost has steadily decreased the last several years making it more cost effective for a growing business to choose the T3 network.

Often a business will optimize capability and cost by choosing a fractional T3 (starting at 10 mbps) rather than a full T3 line. The obvious benefit is reduced cost and yet allow the scalability of a T3 circuit of up to 45 mbps.

There's also the private line T3, also known as point to point T3 or point to point DS3. For example, you could have a private line between two businesses with no Internet security risk. This is a very useful solution for media companies and companies with various locations needing to transfer data between locations and run VOIP.

The T3 service is symmetrical (45 mbps upstream/downstream), unlike most DSL and cable lines; you get the same speed in both directions which is very important for businesses, especially those exchanging data between offices and uploading a lot of files.

Cost mostly depends on distance. This boils down to two simple components; local loop and the port. The local loop cost is the cost the local phone company charges to transport the signal from the end user's central office, otherwise known as a CO, to the point of presence, otherwise known as a POP, of the carrier. The port cost is the cost to access the network or the Internet through the carrier's network. Typically, the port price is based upon access speed and yearly commitment level while the loop is based on location and yearly commitment. The further the CO and POP, the more the loop cost.

If your business is growing and bonded T1's no longer can handle your bandwidth needs, then upgrading to a T3/DS3 line for reliability, scalability, performance, and capacity is most likely the best decision you'll make for meeting your company's growth.

Send me the update pricing on Fractional T3 or full T3 connection!

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Alain Nguyen has been involved in the Telecom/Bandwidth industry for over seven years.We offer you a convenient service to find the best deal on T1 lines, T3 lines or DS3 lines, OC3 Connections, MPLS, Frame Relay, VPN, FastE,Point to point T1, point to point T3 or DS3 price, etc.
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Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> http://www.articletrader.com/computers/mpls-is-it-the-future-of-communications-for-businesses.html http://www.articletrader.com/computers/mpls-is-it-the-future-of-communications-for-businesses.html Sun, 16 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0500 MPLS networks. More and more businesses are using MPLS network for their needs to connect their locations together on a private network. There are numerous applications that can take advantage of this latest technology in being able to prioritize data packets by assigning labels to them.

There are lots of products that have the label MPLS, so one needs to be careful of the types of services available. There are several partial implementations (Cisco included) of the MPLS specifications, many of which do not give the full range of QoS and support for carrying diverse services at the same time. For multi-service networks MPLS services provided by the major providers is most likely the best options to consider.

MPLS service is the 'Now' (not the future) Generation of backbone technology. It is the number one service offering for most Global Telco's, not to mention the main focus of Vendors in the US. In Europe and Asia, it is already the technology of choice for most new WAN implementations.

It is always safer to compare the business cases for MPLS and competing legacy technologies when considering a change. Often the Service Providers push customers into MPLS solutions because it is fashionable and the margins are better for them as they can bundle multiple services with it (Data and VOIP plus enhanced network monitoring tools etc). The overall MPLS costs for a customer will depend on several factors:

(a) existing and future bandwidth requirements;
(b) the need to use bandwidth on demand;
(c) geographical spread of wide area networks (distance from the exchange and regulatory restrictions). The further the locations, the more advantageous it is to have MPLS connections since they're distant insensitive.


MPLS network is truly becoming the technology for today's WAN. With the refresh of network infrastructure now better built into operating budgets, the fact that VOIP, videoconferencing and convergence of legacy and current data networks are no longer a leap of faith, more and more businesses migrating to MPLS solutions in the next year and beyond.


Every major bandwidth provider in the US is pushing MPLS. In fact, Sprint, a major Tier 1 provider, is abandoning the frame relay service at the end of the year and getting everyone on their MPLS network.


In order to take full advantage of the MPLS technology, MPLS service is required at every site. ALL MPLS offerings allow businesses that previously did not have a full meshed network to now have the benefits of one. This plays well into most Disaster Recovery plans too. All locations can interact with one another without additional cost like frame relay .


MPLS service includes CoS (class of service). This is very useful if you have VOIP or run applications such as videoconferencing, ERP, CRM, etc.


For MPLS connections to be most effective, your entire route from point A to point B has to be MPLS enabled. So given locations A say in Los Angeles and location B in say Chicago, this entire path from both locations HAVE to be MPLS enabled. Otherwise, the packet markings are useless.


Shopforbandwidth.com has helped numerous companies migrate from frame relay or VPN to MPLS. They can do the same for your company as well. You can choose to connect your various locations with MPLS speeds usually starting at 1.5 mbps to 45 mbps (T1 speed to T3/DS3 bandwidth) and faster.


For MPLS pricing, get MPLS quotes NOW!

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Alain Nguyen
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