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How to Get the Best Deal on Online T1 Quotes?

Choosing an Agent

Here is a step-by-step checklist that will help you know if your agent is on the level:

  • Even though you can contact the agent online, a phone call should be made so he or she can make sure you’re on the same page, and really understand your present and future business T1 needs.
  • Ensure your online agent is not tied to only one provider
  • Check to see if your agent is committed to the industry code of practice, is experienced, and comes with any qualifications. Ask for references from previous customers, and see if they are listed on the social network LinkedIN.
  • A good agent can explain the different products that are offered by providers, letting you know how they affect your communication needs in easy-to-understand terms.

Reasons to Shop Online for T1

  • Convenient – avoid the hassle of sales people calling you (often at obnoxious times)
  • Better prices – the advantage of ordering through an agent is the second channel of current information and customer service on price breaks and promotions. If your provider is not performing to expectations, you can always contact your agent.
  • Save time – Get quotes in minuets right from your desk.

Integrated Access Overview

Businesses that need access to the internet as well as 20 phone lines or less s over the same line are ideal candidates for an integrated T1. Integrated T1’s are capable of running multiple services (local telephone, long-distance, telephone, internet, VoIP) over the same circuit. In other words, with an integrated T1, businesses can install a single T1 to accommodate voice, internet, and data networks.

Integrated T1’s require sophisticated T1 equipment to be split between the 24 channels on the providers end. Generally, this equipment is provided to the customer for free from the local phone company.

Features

  • Unified Messaging
  • Competitive, flat-rate of long distance bundles
  • Local phone lines
  • Internet access
  • Web hosting
  • Static IP, to meet your network configuration
  • Web-based monitoring

Benefits

  • Reduce overall network costs
  • Begin with four local lines and 384 Kbps of bandwidth and have the ability to grow to 20 voice lines or more with transport speeds of 1.54 Mbps per channel
  • 24/7 customer service
  • Simplify business communications through the combination of data, voice, Internet and video applications on one T1
  • Web based tools to monitor T1 performance
  • Get high speed, “always on” Internet access
  • Suit your business needs by choosing data, voice, internet and access links to your T1
  • Retain existing phone and fax numbers

Integrated Access

If you need a consolidated solution that gives you a combination of various communications services, you need to look for an integrated access T1 service. An integrated T1 service is a good way of running several functions through a single line, providing a flexible way of making sure your business is well-connected.

By using integrated T1, you can connect to local telephone networks, conduct long-distance phone calls, connect to the Internet, and conduct voice over IP (VoIP) calls over a single circuit. The best part is, you can do all of these things at the same time.

If you’re a small business that uses less than twenty phone lines throughout your office, the chance of you benefiting greatly from an integrated T1 service is pretty substantial. This service will let you keep your voice connections and access the Internet with speeds better than what you’d usually get from a standard dial-up connection. It will give you the flexibility of multiple telephone connections running over a singular T1 connection that also lets you connect to local and wide area networks, as well as the Internet.

That’s because integrated T1 is different from regular T1. Integrated T1 comes with equipment that provides the ability to access multiple communications services. This will split twenty-four channels over a singular channel in order to achieve connectivity to your voice lines, as well as to provide a high-speed connection to the Internet and other area networks that you need to connect to.

While this equipment is sophisticated and usually expensive, phone companies providing integrated T1 access will also provide the infrastructure required for the connection free of charge.

Features

You need your telephone lines? No problem! An integrated T1 solution gives you a simulated T1 Internet connection that integrates your line with your multiple voice connections—thus the integrated in the name. Thanks to the hardware that your phone company provides to give you integrated connectivity you can have the best of both worlds without having new lines connected to your office.

At the same time, this service will also give you unlimited simulated T1 access to the Internet. That means that you won’t have to pay anything extravagant, or have a large-scale infrastructure connected to your system in order to access the web. All your units that are connected to the system will be provided with a static IP address that are all designed to meet the requirements of your network’s configuration.

In addition, most—if not all—integrated T1 services provide you with web-based monitoring features in order to keep tabs on your network. Add the capacity to host your own website, and you’ve got a system that gives you a vast array of top-quality services included at a flat-rate of service.

Benefits

  • You can start the service with four local lines and 384 Kbps of bandwidth, and scale up to twenty voice lines at 1.54 Mbps per channel.
  • Combine a variety of applications—voice, Internet, and data—on the same T1 circuit, and tailor the combination of service lines to suit your business needs.
  • If you have old phone and fax numbers, you won’t have to obtain new ones just to set up an integrated T1 connection.