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Full T1 vs Burstable T1

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by shawng

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What would be the best way to determine if you should go with a burstable T1 or go with a full T1? Trying to get the scoop on this is very hard because most people who are offering info are salesmen. If your company has less than 100 people; and very few internet based applications.. I believe the burstable T1 would be sufficient. Does anyone agree?

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by webmaster

The Burstable (Fractional T1) should be enough. Remember to plan your bandwidth requirements. As soon as you pop the line for more juice you'll be charged. Also you could further justify the cost savings of a burstable T1 if you have a Internet monitoring and denial policy in place. That can help in blocking un-wanted and costly bandwidth.

Hope that helps

If you have any questions or input feel free.

Anthony

by shawng

The only thing we have that i failed to mention is that we have another location that uses citrix server for access to the network. It's approximately 10 users. Thank you for your input. I truly appreciate it since this is not my strong area.

by madwoodsman

As cheap as a full T-1 is nowdays why go burstable? I just got a quote from Savvis for an $800/mo T-1 including my local loop...currently we use UU-Net for $1200/mo.

The only way I would consider going burstable was if the maximum monthly chargewas guaranteed not to exceed that of a full T-1...otherwise you may be in for an expensive surprise.

- Gordon

by shawng

I'm unsure of who that company is that you got that quote from, but all of the quotes i have received for full T1's were at $1000 with the local loop where the burstable is at $600. If it were MY money, i would definitely go with the full T1.

by psykotic1

Just cut the crap and go with the full T1 if you are just under a 100 user environment, especially if you are also running the citrix apps (even if only 10 people). Be less of a headache as like previous dudes have stated, if you go over the burstable you are likely to pay heavy. Especially if you have no monitoring equipment in place yet on the bandwidth.......sometimes costs money to save money. I say simplify your life, cut the crap and go with the full T1. Save your headache for choosing a provider.

by tomsal

First let me lay one "myth" to rest. In several discussions related to the matter the general concensus has been that if you are less than 100 employees a fractional T is fine. *buzz* wrong!

The most important thing is HOW the company uses their technology, if you have 20 users heavily sending large files or globs of data over the 'net, they are using mega bandwidth just between themselves.

We are less than 100 employees. We had a fractional T for a while, we killed it. Day in, day out itwas saturated with ease.

At first I thought something was wrong, so I ran tests, set up web content filters (in a effort to see exactly WHAT people were using the Internet for), I even had several talks and troubleshooting session with the company that sold us the router - and their lead tech is a CCIE.

Some of the traffic wound up to be Internet abuse on the part of my users, but in the end myself and the CCIE tech found out that Internet abuse issues only accounted for about 7% of lossbandwidth.

Well its been two years now since we've been on a full T-1 dedicated to data. We are starting to clog this one now too.

Go with the Full T if you can. I'm sure everyone's deal is different but damn we have TWO Full T-1's (one is dedicated for voice) for $1200/mo (that includes both).

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