{"id":298,"date":"2021-06-10T09:20:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T09:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.redexper.com\/?p=298"},"modified":"2021-06-13T23:10:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T23:10:04","slug":"dedicated-internet-access-5-key-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.redexper.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/10\/dedicated-internet-access-5-key-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Dedicated internet access: 5 key benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What is the difference between an inexpensive “shared” Internet connection and a Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) circuit for your company?<\/h3>\n

Question:<\/strong> Remote users, IPsec<\/a> VPN\u2019s to other sites, Remote Desktop<\/a>, VoIP<\/a>, Cloud Apps\u2026 What do they all have in common?<\/p>\n

\u201cReasons why I keep Tums in my drawer?\u201d \u2026 No.<\/p>\n

Answer:<\/strong> These are data centre applications that might require your company to need a Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) circuit, instead of the average, cost-effective business Internet access types.<\/p>\n

Types of Dedicated Internet Access circuits include Dedicated Fiber (a.k.a. fast ethernet, metro ethernet, ethernet over fibre); Ethernet over Copper (EoC); and Dedicated Fixed-Wireless.<\/p>\n

The type of DIA circuit your company needs depends on the circuit types available at your address and the bandwidth your company requires. In theory, the type of DIA circuit (i.e. fibre vs. T-1), only affects the bandwidth and price of the Internet connection.<\/p>\n

Regardless of circuit type, a DIA circuit always includes the following 5 benefits:<\/p>\n

Guaranteed bandwidth<\/h2>\n

With Dedicated Internet Access, your company is guaranteed to receive the bandwidth you purchased, 100% of the time. If your company purchases a 100M dedicated fibre Internet connection, you will always<\/em> receive 100M.<\/p>\n

This is helpful because a company can decide on the speed they require, purchase it and rely on it to be the same speed, every minute of the day.<\/p>\n

This is different from \u201cshared\u201d connections, where the speed your company purchases is the maximum<\/em> speed you will receive. (like at 2:00 AM<\/em>). With shared connections, the actual speed is unpredictable and fluctuates throughout the day, depending on the ISP\u2019s network traffic.<\/p>\n

Synchronous upload and download speeds<\/h2>\n

If your company purchases a 100M Dedicated Internet Access circuit, both your download and<\/em> upload speed\/bandwidth are always guaranteed at 100M.<\/p>\n

Fast upload speed is important if your company has a lot of remote users, cloud apps, VoIP, etc.<\/p>\n

Less expensive, shared Internet connections typically have a fast download speed and a significantly slower upload speed. For instance, it\u2019s common to see an inexpensive shared Internet connection with a maximum download speed of 100M and a maximum upload speed of only 10M.<\/p>\n

Better throughput<\/h2>\n

Has your company ever experienced slow Internet speed yet your Internet speed test says your bandwidth is high?<\/p>\n

If your company doesn\u2019t have time for this kind of skulduggery, DIA might be the answer.<\/p>\n

This is a little-known secret in the ISP world but as any ISP network engineer will tell you, the bandwidth your company buys is not the circuit\u2019s actual throughput. It\u2019s just the bandwidth at which the circuit accesses the ISP\u2019s backbone network. Once your traffic hits the network, however, it only moves as fast as the network will allow.<\/p>\n

The best analogy is a freeway onramp (i.e. your circuit), vs. the actual freeway (i.e. the ISP\u2019s backbone network). The onramp might be huge and wide-open but if the freeway is packed with traffic, it\u2019s going to take you a long time to reach your destination.<\/p>\n