| Bonded ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber | | | | bonded ADSL can be purchased for the same |
| Lines) is a broadband solution that can take as | | | | cost as one diginet line. |
| many as five separate telephone lines and bond | | | | If you are wondering if this is the solution for |
| them into one line to access the Internet. This is | | | | broadband Internet connections for your business, |
| totally different than load balancing, which routes | | | | consider this: |
| different types of traffic over several different | | | | If your business is uses the Internet mainly to |
| telephone lines. | | | | download mail, documents, images, updates and |
| When ADSL was first introduced to the public the | | | | for surfing the web, you are mainly interested in |
| key way it was described was as a service for | | | | the download speed connection. On the other |
| consumers. Small and medium businesses soon | | | | hand, if a remote access provision is needed for |
| discovered this was an inexpensive way of | | | | employees, suppliers or customers or if you are |
| connecting to the Internet without the option of | | | | going to be hosting an application that will be |
| an expensive diginet line or the slowness of dial | | | | retrieved externally, the upload speed is going to |
| up. Providing a solution for the gap left between | | | | play an important part in the connection. |
| diginet options or load balanced connections was | | | | What do you do if this is an important part of |
| what bonded ADSL accomplished. | | | | your business? The use of ADSL bonding will allow |
| When ADSL first became known, it was only | | | | you the better upload speed. To figure this on |
| capable of getting the user so far. The bandwidth | | | | your own and find out what your upload and |
| speeds were limited and the upload speeds | | | | download speeds will be, multiply the maximum |
| compared to download speeds were very poor | | | | speed for each line by the number of ADSL lines |
| quality. The account sizes were limited and there | | | | you will be bonding together. Many businesses |
| was no guarantee that service would be available. | | | | start out with two ADSL lines and add to them |
| Once the load balancing had reached the end of | | | | as the need for speed increases. |
| its capabilities, businesses either had to buy leased | | | | When achieving a speed such as the one you get |
| lines or diginet, both of which were expensive. | | | | with ADSL bonding, your IT systems will be |
| Bonded ADSL literally makes individual phone lines | | | | subject to many new applications. Providing Virtual |
| into one large pipe so if five lines are bonded with | | | | Private Network (VPN) connections between |
| 4Mbps up and 512Kbps down, you have 20Mbps | | | | branches of a business and the head office will |
| down and 2Mbps up. By bonding 5 or 6 high speed | | | | provide information the branch may need. |
| lines' bandwidth together the data that is | | | | Another benefit is providing sales staff that |
| processed is that many times what it would be | | | | travels as part of their job the access needed to |
| on one line. The cost of two or even more of | | | | perform their job. |