[nylug-talk] Clean Slate Remote Office Connectivity

[alex at pilosoft.com]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, George Bourozikas wrote:

> On Friday 20 April 2007 15:35:12 Jim McBride wrote:
> > Hi All:
> >
> > Clean Slate Remote Office Connectivity:
> 
> Here's my experience doing something like that between NY (main office) 
> and SF (satelite):
> 
> 1) DSL is not practical.  ADSL is no good (it's geared towards browsing 
> but you have traffic going both ways) and SDSL is almost as expensive 
> as a T1.  Go with a T1.
Importantly, DSL has no guarantees of service restoration. If this is
business, consider if you can tolerate service interruption for 48 hours
(mean-time-to-repair for DSL).  If not, you must have T1 (MTTR 4 hours).

-alex