| Many people now have at least some way of | | | | only the option to choose which of the 24 |
| connecting to the internet, whether it's the | | | | channels is dedicated to voice (phone) calls and |
| age-old dial-up or the more modern fiber optic | | | | what is remaining for data transfer. |
| that's available. It comes in a variety of different | | | | Fractional T1 Service: Using only a portion of the |
| manners; through a modem, a router, some | | | | bandwidth available, this makes for a percentage |
| people even use satellite to connect to the | | | | of the full rate. |
| internet. Whatever the method, it's only suitable | | | | Burstable T1s: Paying for what you need, you are |
| for small amounts of users, as the hardware and | | | | given a set amount of bandwidth, however, you |
| the connection itself would grow unstable if it | | | | can also use a higher bandwidth should there be |
| were to hold anymore than several at a time. | | | | traffic spikes. |
| This is where business connections come in. The | | | | Bonded T1 Connections: Combining several T1 |
| T1 connection is a bidirectional data stream with a | | | | lines into one, this allows for much higher |
| transfer speed of 1.544mbps and is comprised of | | | | performance and capacity. |
| 24 digitalized phone line voice channels. It is very | | | | By bonding T1 lines, it can easily scale with the |
| stable and can support many more users at any | | | | company. From simply one connection, you can |
| one time than a simple dial up or even broadband | | | | increase to ten offering a very scalable option for |
| router connection could. As for the reason home | | | | a thousand users at once. Other connection |
| owners don't use this; it costs hundreds of dollars | | | | speeds such as an OC192 goes up to 10 gigabits |
| for a simple T1 connection, which is the basic | | | | per second, which is suitable for vast |
| option. | | | | organizations. |
| T1 connections are built out of copper or fiber | | | | The argument for using a T1 line, or any of its |
| optic cables which are innately capable of | | | | bigger brothers, is that the potential losses in |
| transferring data at much fast velocity than | | | | downtime can be averted with a |
| phone lines. It was created by Bell Labs for Japan | | | | high-performance, highly stable internet |
| and North America. Businesses are now offered a | | | | connection, keeping users and customers |
| series of different T1 connection options to fit | | | | connected to each other at all times. The savings |
| their budgets or business size. | | | | easily justify the costs for many companies. |
| Integrated T1 Lines: This is the basic T1 line with | | | | |