Any one know any UK providers of leased lines?

Matrix · 29th November 2003

richardys · 29th November 2003

**** ignore me *****

vi.net · 9th February 2004

Do you want to run servers directly of a local LAN? If so there are many leased line providers available in the UK. Usually these are the large Telco's like a BT, Cable and Wireless, etc.

Many ISP's UUNET/MCI, Cable and Wireless and Tiscali will sell leased lines, but will have to get this through BT anyway. But they do get discounted rates because they are buying in bulk. Cost is really affected by the size of the leased line you want.

You can get E1 (2meg) aggregated into 64kb sections. So the smallest you can get is 64k. The nice thing about BT is they will deliver 64k bandwidth on an E1 and then you can easily upgrade your line in 64K sections. You pay for the line rental of E1 but only the bandwidth of 64K.

If you are not running these server on your local LAN, then Co-location is the best option. This give you support, redundancy and backup solution in a nutshell.

A company called Band-X,http://www.band-x.com/en/, provides an innovative service for capacity. I wont go through the whole thing, but check out their website and have a read.

markcastle · 9th February 2004

When getting leased line quotes... ensure that the company isn't quoting you for a leased line yet palming you off with a HDSL connection. NTL are very good at that for example.

vi.net · 9th February 2004

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Originally Posted by markcastle

When getting leased line quotes... ensure that the company isn't quoting you for a leased line yet palming you off with a HDSL connection. NTL are very good at that for example.

Excellent point!

Cameron Gray · 5th March 2004

Neos also have a very good "Metro Ethernet" national network, basically a LES ciruit over their ATM backbone. Pops-up as RJ45 ethernet at each end.

mhart · 14th March 2005

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Originally Posted by vi.net

You pay for the line rental of E1 but only the bandwidth of 64K.

IIRC, BT will let you rent a minimum of 8 slots on your ISDN30/E1, so it doesn't work out too bad. Renting 30 lines when you're only using one or two is a bit too extravagent - even for me!

- Mike

wilco888 · 1st May 2005

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tema · 22nd October 2005

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Originally Posted by Cameron Gray

Neos also have a very good "Metro Ethernet" national network, basically a LES ciruit over their ATM backbone. Pops-up as RJ45 ethernet at each end.

Neos don't have ATM anywhere in their network. The Ethernet network operates directly over a DWDM fibre backone. The LES circuit will connect to their nearest pop and transport it over their Ethernet platform to the other end.

tema · 27th October 2005

Quote:

Originally Posted by markcastle

When getting leased line quotes... ensure that the company isn't quoting you for a leased line yet palming you off with a HDSL connection. NTL are very good at that for example.

Or SDSL lines - like Easynet with their SureStream product.

alexcf · 28th October 2005

You could try Entanet, they do leased lines. Jake is floating around on here somewhere, hopefully he'll notice the thread

jake.perks]at[entagroup.com

HTH,

philb · 28th October 2005

Shame the thread is from 2003, eh?

alexcf · 28th October 2005

Arse.

/me slaps Tema, and waves