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BT halves business broadband start-up cost
Talkback The company i work for has a leased line. Our connection is a full 2mb leased line over fiber. We buy from a different company. I would say, that this is to little to late from BT. BT are still using copper.
[July 23, 2004, 10:54]
Oftel pushes for cheaper leased lines
News Businesses may soon be able to save on the cost of a high-speed leased line, following a decision announced on Friday by Oftel. The telecoms regulator has instructed BT to make a number of changes to its wholesale leased line products.
[June 14, 2002, 17:29]
BT outage cuts City leased lines
News A fault at BT's Megastream leased line service on Monday cut about 1,000 lines, some of which terminated in the City of London. Leased lines provide high-speed, always-on connections to large businesses, and BT's Megastream service can carry high...
[August 23, 2001, 8:40]
BT extends budget business broadband
News BT is to significantly expand the reach of its SDSL (symmetric digital subscriber line) broadband network in London and the West Midlands beginning in early January, the telco said on Thursday, giving more small businesses a cheaper alternative to...
[December 4, 2003, 14:10]
BT offers SDSL broadband direct to small businesses
News BT has launched a symmetrical broadband service aimed at small businesses who need upload speeds as fast as their download speeds -- a feature usually associated with expensive leased-line connections.
[January 19, 2004, 12:25]
European regulation fails to solve broadband problem
News According to a Yankee group survey, European businesses are paying 150 times more for local leased line broadband connections than they do for international lines and 150 times what their US counterparts pay.
[May 3, 2001, 11:30]
Nortel Network Case Study: NTT Communications
White Papers NTT Communications wanted to enhance the quality, reliability and capacity of its Gigaway broadband leased line service in metropolitan Tokyo. NTT Communications chose Nortel's Optical Metro 3000 solution to offer fiber channel leased line services.
[January 11, 2008, 0:01]
Bulldog gets its teeth into SDSL
News These include an alternative to traditional leased lines which Bulldog calls the 'IP leased line' service. Prices start at £162.50 per month on top of a £1,595 connection fee, which compares favourably with the cost of a leased line.
[March 30, 2004, 17:20]
SME Firm, CE.SE.CO, Increases Productivity and Slashes Bandwidth Costs With Expand
White Papers This would, in turn, translate into increased recurring leased line fees for CE.SE.CO. CE.SE.CO thought it had limited options for increasing bandwidth on its existing leased lines. CE.SE.CO decided to deploy Expand's Accelerator 2700 series to...
[September 20, 2008, 0:00]
Dell TrueMobile GPRS Solution review
Reviews On the server side is BroadCloud’s SURE-exchange optimisation software, which sits between the leased line and the corporate servers and eliminates unnecessary protocol handshakes, compresses application data and gives users more control over...
[September 20, 2002, 11:42]
ZDNet interviews e-Minister: Part II
News There are doing a fast comparison study -- and again it is quite hard to get accurate comparisons on leased line costs because of the length of lines and bandwidth variation -- but Oftel is trying to get accurate comparisons to see if there is a...
[February 21, 2000, 10:19]
BT offers SDSL broadband direct to small businesses
Talkback I think that leased lines are far too expensive for the public to evan concider and dsl lines tend to have a low upload speed, the area most needed for either of those applications. SDSL sounds like a good idea, i havnt yet seen any prices for...
[February 15, 2004, 0:20]
Dell notebooks go wireless
News Installation services -- which can include the setting up of a secure leased line (a requirement) -- will be handled by a third party. No leased line or server-side installation is required, but the level of security is commensurately less.
[February 12, 2002, 15:48]
Peribit upgrades network optimisation range
News This could allow an IT manager of a company with two remote sites linked by a leased line to set that a certain application should use the leased line unless its performance became too poor, at which point the application should shift to the...
[June 30, 2004, 17:35]
BT launches SDSL trial
News BT has been accused of adopting a go-slow approach to SDSL in the past because it was concerned that SDSL could take revenue away from its leased-line business. According to BT, though, SDSL will not damage the leased-line side of its business...
[September 11, 2002, 13:18]
SDSL needs a better sell
Leader SDSL, of course, is a threat to the BT's leased line business. However, it would be a brave business which moved from a leased line to an SDSL one, given the kind of service level agreement BT offers for SDSL.
[August 24, 2005, 14:15]
SDSL: Step forward or back for broadband?
News Running a virtual private network over an SDSL line is anticipated to be almost as secure as, but much cheaper than, its leased line equivalent. SDSL is seen as a technology that will cannibalise leased-line revenues in certain areas.
[March 18, 2004, 9:20]
Colt's mobile plans still unclear
News One of the top items on Jemmett's agenda is to try and force differentiation between BT's symmetric DSL and leased-line services. Currently, both products are regulated identically, despite the fact they use different physical media, meaning that...
[March 2, 2007, 9:44]
New options for connectivity
News The prices are competitive compared with a leased line or frame relay connection over a year or two and give you the added bonus of moving it and using it later should the department or organisation you are supporting relocate again.
[June 13, 2005, 12:15]
Implementing DSL Bonding Services Targeted to Small and Medium Size Businesses
White Papers For businesses looking for an alternative to slow dialup modems or costly conventional leased line connections, high-speed DSL is emerging as the access service choice. However, the downside to DSL is that bandwidth is limited by the distance from...
[March 2, 2004, 11:20]
