Who should consider installing a Leased Line?
If your business has outgrown broadband or ISDN connections, you need a leased line. The examples below are common business problems best solved with a leased line solution.

What is a Leased Line?
Leased Lines are permanent connections made between 2 locations. In effect it is a telephone line that is open all of the time, but rather than paying for it by the minute and second as you would for your normal telephone or ISDN connection, a Leased Line is rented by the month or year.

Leased lines are a robust, stable and faster way to transfer data between locations.

Although ADSL lines offer high speed data transfer, there are a few draw backs when used for business purposes compared to a dedicated leased line. For example you can only UPLOAD data at a maximum of 256kbps. If you were to link two offices via two 2Mbps ADSL lines, you would only have a maximum of 256kbps to transfer between them.

ADSL connections are shared between a number of people on the same BT phone exchange. (Currently each business ADSL is shared between 20 people).

This means that potentially 20 other companies could be sharing your ADSL maximum speed. A leased line is simply your own, and not shared.

There is also no Service Level Agreement available from BT to cover an ADSL line connection. This means that if it was to fail then BT do not guarantee a repair time. Leased lines have a guaranteed repair time in the event of failure.

Utilising a Virtual Private Network (VPN) technology from Cisco you can safely and cost effectively link up your offices with peace of mind. See Link Your Offices