Why Share Business Broadband
Costs?
Even smaller businesses can have high performance dedicated Internet
access by splitting the cost of a T1, T3 or fiber optic line with
other businesses in their building or business park. By pooling
resources, the group can afford a higher bandwidth than any individual
business.
Colocation is Often Cost Effective
Bandwidth
Colocation is locating your servers in a colocation facility,
also known as a carrier hotel. Advantages of this approach include
ready availability of low cost bandwidth including DS3, Carrier
Ethernet and SONET Fiber Optic OCx options. These data centers
also offer backup power, environmental control and high levels
of security.
Dedicated DS3 Internet Access
Business broadband via DS3 dedicated Internet service offers 45
Mbps of upload and download capability. That's enough to support
a medium size or larger office, including file transfers, email
and Web browsing, video conferencing and real-time ecommerce activities.
How DS3 Relates to OC3
DS3 is a digital signal level originally developed to support
the copper based T-Carrier digital telephone trunking system.
DS3 offers about 45 Mbps of bandwidth . OC3 is a SONET optical
carrier standard running at about 155 Mbps. An OC3 link can transport
up to 3 separate DS3 services.
What is DS3 over Copper?
DS3oC, or DS3 over Copper, is a last mile connectivity solution
that delivers high bandwidth service where fiber optic connections
are unavailable or not cost effective to construct. Instead, standard
twisted pair copper wires like those used for telephone or T1
line service provide the link from the carrier POP to your building.
Multiple pairs and special modulation schemes are used to provision
carrier-grade DS3 service on copper wiring.