What is a Leased Line?
A leased line can provide your business with a dedicated internet line. This can be a fantastic way to ensure that your business can run smoothly and efficiently, with minimal internet disruptions.
Businesses often suffer due to unreliable broadband connections. This simply costs time, money and productivity.
A leased line gives your business a dedicated internet connection, which improves the reliability, along with the speed, of your internet. This will allow your business to take advantage of the modern technologies available. As a result, you will be able to increase efficiency in your business.
For example, you may choose to run a VoIP system, which can reduce costs while increasing functionality. Alongside this, you may choose to increase staff flexibility by implementing a cloud system. Ultimately, a leased line allows you to make business decisions without being concerned about poor connectivity.
Benefits of a Leased Line?
No Contention
The contention ratio refers to how much your internet line is shared with others in your area. In essence, your local cabinet or exchange could be sharing the internet speed across 50 premises/homes. In this example, that would mean a contention ratio of 50:1. Essentially, the higher the contention ratio, the more competition, and therefore, the more likely you are to experience a slower connection.
A dedicated leased line eliminates this competition and guarantees your internet speed.
No ‘Up-To’ Speeds
You may be paying for a certain speed – be it via fibre or ADSL – but often, these are ‘up-to’ speeds. The lower the contention ratio, the more likely you are to achieve the higher speeds. However, if others that you share the line with are using the internet too, you’re likely to see your speed suffer as a result.
Your location can also have an impact too. If you’re further away from the exchange, you’re likely to suffer slower speeds.
With a leased line, you will not experience these issues. The line will be yours, which means the speed that you pay for is the speed you get.
Symmetrical Bandwidth
Choosing a leased line allows you to have the same upload and download speed. Usually with broadband, your upload speed will be significantly slower than your download speed… Once a few team members try to jump on a video call at the same time, you may struggle to join an additional call too.
With the highly improved speeds that come with a leased line, you don’t need to worry about these things.
Increased Service
Leased lines have a much better Service Level Agreement (SLA) with suppliers. This means that if you ever have any issues with your connection, you will experience a much better initial response time that you would on standard broadband. This will vary across suppliers but for example, with some broadband services, you may be waiting 24 working hours for an initial response. However with some leased line services, you can expect this within 8 clock hours.
Range of Solutions
There are multiple leased line options available and some of them can provide incredible speeds of up to 10Gbps. Your requirements and budget will determine what kind of leased line you opt for.
Simply get in touch with us to find out which is best suited to you.