Bandwidth.com offers real-time, competitive pricing on T1s from the best tier-one providers in your area, such as AT&T, Verizon or Qwest. Every full T1 is a dedicated, business class circuit, which means nobody shares your connection, and your uptime is guaranteed in our SLA.
T1s provide a dependable 1.54 mbps of throughput. The circuit is delivered over dedicated copper connections that provide constant data throughput - both for upload and download - which makes T1s ideal for all aspects of business. T1 connections support typical applications such as e-mail, web conferencing and e-commerce.
T1s are the building blocks of the most common business Internet connectivity as they can be used by themselves, or bundled together to form multi-meg circuits (NxT1). The dependability and consistent data throughput of a T1 stands in contrast to DSL connections, which are often oversubscribed and thus prone to congestion and outages. The reliability and symmetrical up/download speed of a T1 makes the circuit ideal for business class VoIP.
T1s typically cost between $350 and $600 with the mean price being about $500. Prices are largely determined by the length of the local loop (often referred to as the last mile), which is the distance from the customer's site to that of an Internet Gateway. Installation time frames range from 20 to 50 days and are coordinated between the Local Exchange Carrier (local loop) and the ISP (port).
Bandwidth.com offers T3 (also known as DS-3) connectivity to businesses who are looking to use a scalable internet circuit with more throughput than bonded T1s can provide.
To meet the ever expanding need of high end IP throughput for today's large enterprise, tier-one providers are rapidly expanding their T3 foot print making this carrier-grade Internet connection a viable option for more and more corporate buyers. A T3 is a dedicated circuit delivered by a Local Exchange Carrier (LEC) via traditional local copper networks and in some cases, over fiber. In its full rate form, a T3 has the same capacity of 28 T1s, which translates into 45mb/s up & download speeds. Like a T1, a DS-3 can be channelized to deliver voice.
While a DS-3 will always incorporate a full 45 Mbps access loop, a typical deployment of a DS-3 circuit rarely begins with a full rate port. Most corporations expanding beyond the limits of their T1 and NxT1 service opt to make the jump to fractional DS-3 such as 6 or 9 Mbps. The draw to DS-3 is found in its scalability properties. Upgrades are a matter of resizing the port which will rarely take more than a few days and growth to full 45 Mbps can occur at a pace the corporation is comfortable with. We usually recommend a T3 when our customers scale above 9 Mbps, since DS-3 pricing begins to drop below the cost of bonding more T1s at that point.
Likely buyers of DS-3 service:
- Enterprises with high data demands such as large scale VPN, video conferencing, or hosted application servers
- Software development firms
- Hospitals and clinics
- Local and regional ISPs
