Connectivity

From the office, home or whilst on the move, a connection to the internet is becoming a must have service. Up until recently a decent high speed connection was vastly expensive, but with the advent of low cost, high speed ADSL, and other affordable technologies every company can afford to take full advantage of what the web has to offer.

ADSL is now available in nearly every populated area, and provides high speed, cheap and reliable connection to the internet. With a static IP address, you can even use ADSL to put your company's server on the internet to take advantage of remote access services to email and company files. FAQ's

Bonded ADSL is for companies that want even more bandwidth but still at ADSL prices. By seamlessly combining several ADSL lines together extrememly high bandwidth can be obtained for a fraction of the price of a similar leased line.

SDSL is available only in the centre of cities and other heavily populated areas right now, and gives speeds in excess of those available on Leased Line for a lot less cost.

Leased Line is typically now used only by companies that demand the fastest connection, or are located in an area not serviced by ADSL yet. It is very expensive compared to ADSL or SDSL and is gradually becoming less and less used.

Managed Router. At the end of every internet connection there is generally a router. This can range from simple home or small office routers to high end routers that combine firewall / VPN and site to site links. Often the higher end routers are hard to configure and expensive to buy. A managed router service means that you pay a small fixed monthly charge and you effectively rent the router and it's settings are managed for you.

3G / GPRS is a tool for the ultimate road warrior. Using state of the art 3G technologies high speed internet connectivity on the move is now a reality. A small card slots into your laptop connecting it to the mobile networks wirelessly. Speeds of up to 384kb are available, and for areas without 3G coverage GPRS is used, giving approximately 100kb bandwidth.