Superior Connection for your Business
On the hunt for more information about high-speed internet connections? This guide aims to give you an understanding of one popular option: Leased Lines.
What are leased lines?
A leased line is a dedicated, fixed-bandwidth data connection. It allows data-hungry businesses to have a reliable, high-quality internet connection with guarantees of upload and download speed, uptime, and resilience. “Leased” refers to the connection which is rented by the Internet Service Provider (ISP) directly to a business, resulting in a service above and beyond what standard broadband provides.
Where a leased line differs is this connection is leased to a business, so this connection to the ISP is unique to that firm, rather than shared with many thousands of others.
As leased lines are uncontended symmetrical lines, you can even define how much speed you require from a leased line to suit your personal business requirements, meeting both your requirements for capacity and budget.
Businesses choose leased line solutions for a variety of reasons. Some recognise that standard broadband connections without any kind of Service Level Agreement pose significant risk to the continuity of their business. Others see that sharing bandwidth with many other commercial and even residential users compromises reliability and can lead to performance fluctuation, whilst the consequence of losing connectivity altogether for any length of time is something they would rather not think about. Others simply recognise the need for a more substantial network infrastructure if they are to ensure continued quality of service within their business.
Leased line solutions are ideal for those whose business is heavily dependent on reliable connectivity, for example providing access to critical applications to employees and teams across multiple offices, adopting cloud hosted services, voice-over-IP and video conferencing to improve efficiency or simply because they require continuous and fast Internet access.
Key Features
Dedicated, high performance connection
Scalable solutions for future growth
Comprehensive 100% SLA - The SLA is used to define the acceptable working parameters for uptime, packet loss, jitter, latency, and other parameters.
Backup options available
24/7 tech support, monitoring and maintenance
Advantages
Briefly, businesses may be attracted to leased lines purely for speed – having superfast access to the internet in an age of increasing cloud service adoption makes a huge amount of sense. But ultimately speed is only one of the factors that make dedicated connections an essential piece of infrastructure for many businesses. Having a symmetrical connection makes the use of VoIP for business telephony and communication more reliable. The SLAs that come with a fixed connection also mean that any fault is often fixed within hours, not days or more. Essential for businesses with a high reliance on data for their day-to-day operations.
What are the disadvantages of leased lines?
A disadvantage of a leased line is that they can take a while to set up and install. The costs can also be higher than alternative services.
Thank you for reading this article if you have made it to the end, we hope you have been well informed from this article. Brightridge has a direct partnership with CityFibre the UK’s largest independent Full Fibre platform, providing world-class wholesale connectivity to business. Brightridge will plan, deliver and manage your business connectivity, giving you the best solutions at competitive prices.
