Your business is sending, receiving and using more and more data – not surprising given that applications are increasingly bandwidth intensive. If you’re worried that your data usage is, or has the potential to, spiral beyond the 10Mbps point and you’re also worried about contention, then an Ethernet solution could be recommended.

If your business is dependent on your Internet connection, unrestricted access is needed at all times or having a failed connection would constitute a catastrophe for your business, a leased line could provide the reliability that you’re looking for. Leased lines are always available, provide direct uncontended access to the Internet (so no sharing a connection with the general populace) and have the security of a Service Level Agreement and a 6 hour return to service guarantee in the event of a failure.

Using a leased line as a primary solution comes with a multitude of benefits, not least of which is that backup options are available for added resilience. In the event that a fault arises, connectivity need not be interrupted as it would be with standard copper or fibre broadband.

When a business shifts their applications from on-premise to a hosted environment it can reduce your costs, but it also puts pressure on your network – which can cause problems. A leased line provides lower latency and higher bandwidth, mitigating against this increased network demand. Bandwidth is also synchronous, meaning that data can be sent at the same speed as it’s received; important in an age of collaboration where as many documents are uploaded as downloaded.

By setting an appropriate amount of data to be used (Committed Data Rate) within the bearer (maximum capacity) today, it’s possible to pay only for what is needed immediately, leaving some future-proof capacity to scale-up to as business demands require.