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**mbossman2** · 06-15-2003, 07:49 PM

T1's give a little more flexibility than DSL, but their is a price. Many T1 installations are in reality channelized T1 (PRI) installs, this allows X number of channels to be dedicated to voice and Y number of channels dedicated to I-net access. Now there are some companies that are implementing IP based packet switched voice and data lines (Cbeyond is one of them http://www.cbeyond.com/). In addition, T1's also allow you to tie, not only into the corporate frame relay cloud (with the attendant SLA's) as well as the voice network and internet access.

One final advantage for T1's is that they are a mature technology and their reliability is higher than that of DSL. thats why any one running a site for "business" purposes relies on traditional telco lines (t1's, t3's etc) as they tend to be up with much higher erliability than DSL.

Now before you get you're undies in a bunch and say: "Well my DSL is up all the time." What I am talking about is "carrier class" reliability, which approaches (and meets) was is called 5 nines of reliability (99.999%) and if you were betting your business (which REQUIRES the internet to function) then you don't screw around and you go with a T-line.

06-15-2003, 07:49 PM	#13
mbossman2 I am, in reality, a moose Staff Premium Member Join Date: Aug 1999 Location: RTP, NC Posts: 2,441	T1's give a little more flexibility than DSL, but their is a price. Many T1 installations are in reality channelized T1 (PRI) installs, this allows X number of channels to be dedicated to voice and Y number of channels dedicated to I-net access. Now there are some companies that are implementing IP based packet switched voice and data lines (Cbeyond is one of them http://www.cbeyond.com/). In addition, T1's also allow you to tie, not only into the corporate frame relay cloud (with the attendant SLA's) as well as the voice network and internet access. One final advantage for T1's is that they are a mature technology and their reliability is higher than that of DSL. thats why any one running a site for "business" purposes relies on traditional telco lines (t1's, t3's etc) as they tend to be up with much higher erliability than DSL. Now before you get you're undies in a bunch and say: "Well my DSL is up all the time." What I am talking about is "carrier class" reliability, which approaches (and meets) was is called 5 nines of reliability (99.999%) and if you were betting your business (which REQUIRES the internet to function) then you don't screw around and you go with a T-line. Last edited by mbossman2; 06-15-2003 at 07:57 PM.