Businesses of all sizes run on good communications. If the left arm doesn’t know what the right arm is doing, you run the risk of pulling in conflicting directions on everything from the day-to-day to the strategic, which invariably limits results. Particularly today, in this age of high speed connections, shared files and collaborative working, the actual technical communications infrastructure in place needs to be robust – your organisation depends on it.
As a business, you have two choices for your data and voice connections – either to use the same lines and exchanges as everyone else, or to set up a dedicated line for yourself. In practice, budgetary constraints mean the only feasible option for many businesses is to lease a dedicated line, through which they can access high-speed Internet services.
Cloud communications specialists Exponential-e gives a good run down, answering “what is a leased line” and how does it work. But what are the advantages for your business in choosing a leased line over the standard, consumer options available?
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Leased Lines Explained
A leased line is a dedicated cable, reserved for your own exclusive use under a leasing agreement. As anyone with home broadband will no doubt have experienced, download and upload speeds vary according to the levels of traffic across the network – when people are at home, using bandwidth, the total quality of services open to all users can drop, to facilitate a peak time surge. For business and other critical users, it’s not really an option to use ‘contended’ consumer connections, given the additional costs of sluggish performance and inefficiency.
Leased lines are essentially fibre optic or copper cables that run from one physical location to another, which are then turned over to a business or organisation for exclusive use. This means you have greater security and privacy, as well as faster internet speeds and more reliable telecommunications across the board. Particularly as more software functions move to the cloud, the need for faster, more reliable broadband across the board will only continue to increase.
Should I Get A Leased Line?
A leased line isn’t necessarily for everyone – if you can live with interrupted, consumer-grade Internet connections, there’s probably no need to investigate something better. But if your business demands to be at the forefront of communications and online technology, or does business or work online to any serious degree, having a dedicated line can alleviate the consumer user load that can often cause lags and delays, invariably at the least convenient of times.
Or if your business is spread between two sites – for example one office in one city, hooking up with an office in another, sorting out a leased line as a physical connection between the two sites can make it much easier to share data and communicate across the internal network – ideal for improving the efficiency of your communications, while ensuring consistent network availability – something that cannot be guaranteed with shared, “contended” services.
If your business or organisation relies on communications at the core of what they do, either internally or externally as relates to clients, a dedicated leased line is the most cost effective, efficient way of scoring this result.
