A new client called this morning. They were a smaller sized business and were looking for a 45Mbps MPLS network. When I asked what they needed that bandwidth for, they explained that they were in the online printing business. “Now I understand!” They needed to be able to grow to over 100Mbps in the future. So this is what motivated this simple block entry.
To start, you can get as much bandwidth as you are willing to pay for. For local loops, this is what the options are:
DSL loop: 1.5M download and 384K upload
T1: 1.54Mbps
E1: 2Mbps (not in USA)
DS-3: 44.736Mbps
OC-3: 155.52Mbps
OC-12: 622Mbps
OC-48: 2.88Gbps
OC-192: 9.953Gbps
Ethernet: Depending on availability: up to 100Mbps of 10Gbps
