What are the main benefits of Bonded ADSL over a leased line?
When needing to connect a business to the Internet or businesses to one another a number of considerations have to be made. Historically leased lines have been used as reliable, resilient internet and site-to-site data connections. The main benefits have been security, reliability, SLAs, private network and flexible speeds. Unfortuantely leased lines also have some disadvantages including high-cost, inflexible terms and long lead times. Bonded ADSL is where multiple ADSL, SDSL or ADSL Max circuits are connected together to provide increased upload and download speeds from DSL. The benefits of Bonded ADSL are lower costs, SLAs from high quality providers, 2-20 Mbps download/upload speeds, rapid installation time and high flexibility. When bonded together ADSL and SDSL can be used to replace an internet connection or inter-site data connections.
Hi there. Cost is probably the biggest benefit of bonded ADSL compared to a leased line, but you are also gaining resiliency, and often speed as well. We have customers who have moved from a 2mbps leased line to 4x bonded ADSL, or to a combination of bonded SDSL and bonded ADSL. Each time, there has been an improvement on both upload and download speed, as well as the benefits of resilience. We’ve developed an enterprise grade management portal which all our customers have access to. This sits on top of an advanced monitoring platform that constantly monitors our entire network, and provides live stats and historical graphs for every bonded connection. Our customers, who include the largest defence contractor in Europe and the world’s largest independant IT services company rely on this visibility on a daily basis. Live demos are available so you could have a look at someone elses live site and see if the bandwidth is what you are expecting compared to a leased line. Anyway, feel free
