Every business needs bandwidth solutions of some sort. For many businesses that require large amounts of bandwidth finding just the right solution….from a cost and application standpoint….can be a confusing process. It doesn’t have to be if you understand what to base your decision on.
Like anything in information technology, it really depends on how you will utilize this infrastructure. It certainly doesn’t make sense to provision high capacity transport links if you will use them for a small fraction of the day or the traffic doesn’t warrant it.
I think one of the hardest things about this arena is that many times the people requesting the bandwidth are confused about what bandwidth really is. There’s a misnomer that bandwidth automatically equals speed. “Well my application is slow, I need more bandwidth”. Many times if a study is done on exactly what your needs are, it turns out to be a very different story from the initial conversation.
With a plethora of technologies out there for WAN and Metro services, wired or wireless customers can choose to subscribe to always on, dedicated access methods or...