The onset of video, music, streaming and real-time multimedia services are the main drivers for requiring high bandwidth t1 line to the Internet. The seminal occurrence for more bandwidth actually started with a short lived company named Napster back in 1999.
The founders of Napster created the first viral application that took the web by storm and created a new delivery system called peer-to-peer file-distribution. The concept, as is found with most disrupting technologies, was quite simple. Allowing users from around the world to catalog and share their files with each other through their personal computers. Napster chose to focus on distributing digital music which requires high bandwidth t1 line.
Since the demise of Napster in 2001 and its resurrection in 2007, (Napster is now a Best Buy company), much has changed when it comes to bandwidth availability. Besides large digital music files I.T. network managers are coping with digital video downloads from services such as HULU, streaming music or news from online radio stations, or real-time multimedia events such as the inauguration of President Obama. All of these applications require high bandwidth.
The I.T. network manager however is also faced with ensuring that valid corporate services are not disrupted by the multimedia applications. Today, corporations are integrating voice, data and video all on the same network. The t1 line to/from your facility and the bandwidth provided is crucial to delivering vital corporate applications such as Voice over IP (VoIP), IP Video for teleconferencing, and delivery of data over high speed t1 line connections is a major component to the success of the business. The use of an t1 line provider for your building-to-building connections simplifies connectivity, management and delivery.
Ethernet connectivity is the simplest and easiest form of connecting your company to the Internet. In the past, Internet connections used what is called a serial connection for your Internet access. The internet service provider (ISP) today has found that they can reduce their costs by providing an Ethernet handoff to your router. This connection is nothing more than your typical RJ-45 jack connection from the ISP equipment to the LAN interface on your corporate router. Using t1 line connectivity has greatly simplified deployment and configuration.
Today, the majority of all wide area network (WAN) connectivity or Internet connections are installed using an Ethernet connection. Ethernet services are implemented in many forms and varying bandwidths. At broadbandcrossing.com our providers offer Ethernet service from DSL and cable delivery systems with bandwidths ranging from traditional T1 bandwidth to 100Mbps. Still others offer t1 line connectivity using wireless at speeds up to 1Gbps. And other Ethernet broadband providers offer Ethernet over copper or Ethernet over fiber with bandwidth ranging from 3Mbps to 1Gbps. No matter what your physical environment is or the location of your facility our carrier partners possess the ability to provider Ethernet Internet or Ethernet broadband services. It seems there is no end to the amount of bandwidth an Ethernet service provider is capable of offering.
