subject: At&t T1 - What It Can Do For Your Business [print this page] An AT&T T1 line is capable of carrying about 60x more than your average modem. Were talking about 192,000 bytes per second! Compared to the analog moden, its more dependable and certainly better. T1 lines, normally, can handle quite a number of people. A few relatively. If its only browsing, probably a hundred or so users can share the T1 connection quite comfortably, but if they all stream and download files all at the same time, then that would be a problem (although this is not really common).
Depending on the provider, T1 lines can cost up to $1,500/monthly. Though, thats not a fixed price and may still vary. Because T1 line end is connected to a web server, total cost includes phone service charges and ISP payment charges. For large companies, they require more than AT&T T1 since it cannot support their large business transactions.
Most people can differentiate a residential phone line from that of a phone company. For one thing, a regular residential phone line in copper wire pairs transmits voices as analog signals at around 30kbps. Phone companies, on the other hand, directs voice traffic as digital signals. Analog signals are converted into digital ones at 64kbps.
T1 lines can be fiber optic line or copper wires. Either way, you can have an AT&T T1 line in your office. It can have up to 24 voice channels, or carry data at a 1.5megabits/sec speed. If used for telephone calls, it directly connects to office phone system. If used to carry data, then its plugged in the network router. As a general rule in economics, when there is an increase in demand, theres also an increase in price. So expect a T1 connection to be expensive especially if there is more demand in the future.
Internet solutions are offered by providers and they usually lease AT&T T1 lines for their clients. There are other types of lines like the T2 and T3 lines, which offer other benefits. T3 lines is a more advanced version of T1. This is more commonly used by big companies with higher requirements. The equivalent of one T3 line is 28 T1 lines, can you imagine that? There are more kinds, though not a lot of people use them.
by: Chad Daniel
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