An Internet T1 connection offers countless benefits for businesses of any size. Internet T1 lines connect directly to businesses, sidestepping traditional phone lines used for standard internet connections. To put it simply, visualize an electrical grid supplying power to all the homes within a city – an Internet T1 connection is akin to a direct link to the generating station.

Faster transmission speeds increase download and upload rates, and as a result, employee productivity. T1 lines allow company websites to be updated quicker, and support advanced applications, such as web and audio conferencing. Furthermore, Internet T1 lines provide a more dependable all-round service that diminishes the possibility of idle time for employees that are waiting for a lost connection to re-establish itself.

High speed Internet connections, such as T1 and T3 lines, offer many benefits for businesses of all types and sizes. Internet T1 and T3 connections provide faster download and upload speeds that allow employees to work more efficiently, and make for a more reliable, productive, and lucrative business.

Additionally, T1 connections offer Service Level Agreements (SLAs) that protect customers by providing them with compensation should any issues arise. The main goal of an SLA is to protect your business. Operational SLAs provide more than a nominal return, which is generally up to 10% of the cost of service in the event of an infrastructure failure. When written properly, SLA’s give you a way to mitigate the effect of problems that harm your network.

SLAs typically cover metrics such as latency, availability and throughput, and occasionally response and repair times, and problem notification/escalation guarantees. More inclusive SLAs include installation lead time requirements, billing dispute resolution timing requirements, account management responsibilities, such as documentation, training, and regular product and technology briefings over the life of your contract as well as service changes. While SLAs do not guarantee better service, they have the ability to protect everything you need – and then some.

Once a rarity in the business world, Internet T1 lines are now commonplace in today’s growing and successful businesses. T1 lines are composed of fiber optic and copper wire, and are capable of transmitting data at 1.54Mbps – 30 times faster than traditional dial-up lines.

Unlike Cable and DSL, Internet T1 line service is available almost anywhere and provides a strong foundation for advanced applications, such as mail or web servers, multi-user VPN, and VoIP services. Imagine an electrical grid that supplies a city’s homes with power – because T1 lines are able to connect directly to a business and bypass conventional phone lines used for standard Internet connections, on that electrical grid a T1 connection acts like a direct link to the generating station.

As a business class service, Internet T1 connections achieve a higher degree of service by providing Service Level Agreements that ensure a high performance rate and speedy response times should there be any issue. Clauses such as these are generally unheard of in standard home services, and have proven to be a big money saver for businesses of all types and sizes.

That being said, the price of Internet T1 connections can be steep – but is well worth its weight in gold. Internet T1 lines offer benefits far beyond just a high-speed connection. Internet T1 connections bypass traditional telephone lines to provide you with an always on connection dedicated solely to you and your business.

“A T1 line is like breezing along in the carpool lane.
While other web browsers slog through traffic,
Internet surfers with T1 connections
never have to let off the gas pedal:
no speed bumps,
no traffic jams,
no rubbernecking.”

Adam Feuerstein
San Francisco Business Times

In order to stay ahead of the competition and be successful, banks today must continuously expand their network infrastructure. Internet T1 and T3 connections allow banks and financial institutions to:

• Significantly reduce long-term infrastructure costs
• Utilize an always on, dedicated connection 30 times faster than dial-up
• Extend information and operations applications to remote branch offices
• Enable centralized control and management as well as easy deployment of complex, diverse business-class applications across geographically dispersed branches and banking centers
• Provide high-speed, secure and reliable Internet access and application performance to increase productivity