Why are T1's so expensive?

[SunnyD]

When you can get business-rate lines from cable and DSL for a fraction of the costs - including synchronus streams.

 

[rh71]

You think T1s are expensive... just wait till you pick up a T1000. I hear they're great personal assistants if you need a few people "offed" though.

 

[XZeroII]

Oh shoot. That reminds me that I have to do some networking homework. That was actually one of the questions I'm supposed to answer.

 

[Aves]

If your $100/month DSL goes down at the same time as someone else's $1000/month T1 which do you think gets priority?

BellSouth, for example, has commit times upwards of 48 hours on DSL versus commit times of 1 hour for a T1 facility. Plus the SLAs guarantee more.

 

[SweetSweetLeroyBrown]

guaranteed service/uptime

 

[dman]

Originally posted by: SweetSweetLeroyBrown
guaranteed service/uptime

yep.

 

[halik]

Originally posted by: SweetSweetLeroyBrown
guaranteed service/uptime

 

[Lash444]

Not to mention, isnt a T1 almost like having 24 dedicated phone lines running to one location??? Its not like having 1 dsl phone connection or cable connection.

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: SweetSweetLeroyBrown
guaranteed service/uptime

Bingo.

Dedicated line too.

 

[hdeck]

t1 gets better pipelines

 

[mastertech01]

I think it is due to the number of simultaneous connections on one line... 256 IP Addresses for business users.

 

[Platypus]

Dedicated line.

 

[Aves]

Originally posted by: Lash444
Not to mention, isnt a T1 almost like having 24 dedicated phone lines running to one location??? Its not like having 1 dsl phone connection or cable connection.

A T1 can be provisioned for all kinds of things. You could have 8 voice lines, 8 channels for a PTP and maybe 8 channels for Internet or any variation of that.

Also, a T1 ties up expensive facilities that the telco can't sell to anyone else.

 

[ScottyB]

Originally posted by: Lash444
Not to mention, isnt a T1 almost like having 24 dedicated phone lines running to one location??? Its not like having 1 dsl phone connection or cable connection.

It is 24 channels.

 

[Lash444]

Thats the weird thing about my stupid brain...I cant remember much, but im a damn rainman with #'s.

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: vi_edit

Originally posted by: SweetSweetLeroyBrown
guaranteed service/uptime

Bingo.

Dedicated line too.

Ahh, okay.

 

[rahvin]

Originally posted by: Lash444
Not to mention, isnt a T1 almost like having 24 dedicated phone lines running to one location??? Its not like having 1 dsl phone connection or cable connection.

A modern T1 line is going to be HDSL. Repeaters every mile to the CO but otherwise very similar to a standard SDSL minus the SLA.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: SweetSweetLeroyBrown
guaranteed service/uptime

Not to mention they sometimes give you respnse time guarantee s too....~15ms if I remember for one LA I saw.