Leased lines and business broadband solve different problems. The right choice depends on how much the organisation relies on connectivity, not simply which product advertises the highest download speed.
Business broadband
Business broadband is generally contended and may provide faster downloads than uploads. It can be a good fit for smaller sites where cost matters and short outages can be tolerated.
Leased lines
A leased line provides dedicated, symmetrical bandwidth with a business service model. It is commonly considered where cloud systems, hosted voice, uploads, customer service or site operations make consistent performance important.
Questions to ask
- How many users and cloud applications share the connection?
- What would one hour of downtime cost?
- Does the business need a fixed public IP range?
- How important is upload speed?
- Is a separate backup connection required?
39T can check address-level availability and compare broadband, leased line and resilience options.