Mid-band Ethernet - 40Mbps available here & now
What is Mid-band Ethernet?
The super-fast Internet WAN link that is available here and now is delivered over the phone line. The key piece of information on this service is that it bonds multiple POTS (Plain Old Telephone System) grade copper pairs together into a single Ethernet link and deployed over copper. Apart from the fact that you get close to the speeds of fibre without the build costs of fibre, here are a few features & benefits of mid-band ethernet:
| • | Symmetric Service: ADSL is a great residential service - perfect for surfing the web and downloading music or games. But most businesses are producers of data, not consumers of data. This means that the minimal upstream capacity of ADSL is generally insufficient for business applications. Mid-band Ethernet is a symmetric technology, providing equal bandwidth in both the upstream and downstream directions, and is much more suited to the business environment. |
| • | Cost. Mid-band Ethernet can deliver over 7 times the bandwidth of a E1 over the same infrastructure at a lower cost.
Flexibility. Mid-band Ethernet can offer a variety of flexible bandwidths. Some carriers are offering Mid-band Ethernet services beyond 40 Mbps, and in flexible increments from 2 Mbps and beyond. |
| • | Reliability: Mid-band Ethernet is much more reliable than traditional services such as ADSL since it aggregates multiple copper lines into a single Ethernet interface. If there is a problem on one access line, the other lines will remain operational and continue to deliver service. The service reliability increases with each aggregated line. |
One final fact to remember is that mid-band Ethernet is just that – Ethernet. It offers the efficiency, simplicity, and flexibility of Ethernet services. mid-band Ethernet is based on 2BASE-TL, an IEEE 802.3 Ethernet standard. Although one may be able to layer Ethernet on top of other technologies, they are not native Ethernet services, and instead offer greater inefficiency and complexity by layering Ethernet on top of some other layer.
Facts to be aware of before choosing Mid-band Ethernet
We do have satisfied customers on this service. but it will never be a residential grade service.
Not as widely available as ADSL2+ or 3G - but available on metropolitan exchanges and business areas.