| In today's ever growing competitive markets | | | | One feature that makes this bandwidth type a |
| your business needs whatever advantages it can | | | | popular choice for large businesses is the |
| get to maintain a healthy profit margin. With | | | | redundancy (reliability) normally associated with |
| budgets tightening it can be easy to pay more | | | | the SONET architecture. Reliability is obviously |
| attention to marketing and development | | | | necessary for productive continuity in the |
| overlooking the I.T. sector in the effort to boost | | | | workplace for any successful business so this is a |
| profits. By ignoring the communications | | | | main selling point. This can help keep money |
| department though you can be making a big | | | | allocated in other areas as there is usually less |
| mistake. Before we continue this discussion let us | | | | expense for technician for downtime analysis and |
| take a closer look at what OC3 is first. | | | | repairs as well as lost revenue to paid employees |
| OC3/OC-3 is one of the many backbone | | | | for man hours during such outages. |
| bandwidths of the SONET family. SONET stands | | | | Your company saves more per Mb in larger |
| for Synchronous Optical NETwork and offers | | | | quantities of bandwidth making a partial port, full |
| many flavors of optical carrier bandwidths including | | | | port, or busrtable OC3 driving your business |
| OC12, OC48, OC192, and OC768 to name a few. | | | | Internet and voice communications more |
| OC levels are for the most part a T1 line on | | | | economical in a belt squeezing economy. This is |
| steroids allowing for larger data and voice traffic | | | | yet another attractive selling point for many |
| payloads for businesses in growth or in current | | | | corporations in America in these trying times. |
| demand for larger communication needs. One OC3 | | | | The future of applications associated with many |
| circuit alone is equivalent to 84 T1 lines or 3 T3 | | | | bandwidth technologies will require extensive |
| lines and runs at the speed of 155 Mbps. | | | | liquidation of hardware and the purchase of new |
| Other OC-x Speeds: | | | | technologies which can drain any hardened bottom |
| OC9 466 Mbps = 252 T1's | | | | line. The beauty of the SONET standard is it's |
| OC12 622 Mbps = 336 T1's | | | | seamless integration with newer technologies as |
| OC18 933 Mbps = 504 T1's | | | | they present themselves saving your enterprise |
| OC24 1.2 Gbps = 672 T1's | | | | the hassle of implementing new hardware as well |
| OC36 1.8 Gbps = 1,008 T1's | | | | as the purchase of it. |
| OC48 2.4 Gbps = 1,344 T1's | | | | Ultimately, when you are able to combine added |
| OC96 4.9 Gbps = 2,688 T1's | | | | productivity and functionality to your everyday |
| OC192 9.9 Gbps = 5,376 T1's | | | | operations with cost considerations in place, your |
| OC768 39.8 Gbps = 21,504 T1's | | | | business can then allocate funds into other areas |
| Common uses in large enterprises include hosting | | | | that can keep your business growing to the |
| servers, WANs, ISP, VoIP, SIP Trunking, PBX | | | | capacity of your market increasing profitability. |
| voice, and other applications. As a matter of fact, | | | | There are other features and options for OC3 |
| when it comes to voice use for call centers, an | | | | that may or may not be right for your business |
| OC3 is capable of handling the transmission of | | | | so consulting with your I.T. staff as well as a good |
| over 2,000 lines of voice traffic simultaneously. | | | | broker specialist can help you find both the right |
| These larger capacities can be accredited to the | | | | bandwidth and a cost effective solution suitable |
| capacity associated with fiber optics. | | | | for your growing network needs. |