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Why A Corporate T1 Line Will Help Shrink Your Bills
You should consider a business T1 line if you are interested a highly reliable phone and Internet service that may reduce your total telecom expenses. If your business has more than seven individual phone lines and your staff uses the Internet, your business is a great candidate to save money with a business T1 line.
What Precisely is a T1 Line?
A T1 line is a dedicated line carrying digital data between your business and your phone company's customer office. It has a bandwidth of 1.544 Mbps that you can think of as being divided into 24 channels.
When a business T1 line is devoted to phone service, it can process 24 simultaneous external phone calls. Each call is carried on a discrete "channel" or portion of the data stream. Your T1 line and your internal phone lines connect to a PBX device that is your private branch exchange--like your own phone company. The PBX can allow internal calling with a 3 or 4 digit extension, provides services like voice mail, call waiting, hunt groups, music on hold, and other functions. Your PBX also allows 24 external calls concurrently. For a lot of businesses this handles the external calling requirements of 100 or more employees.
An alternate version of T1 is T1 PRI which is often found in customer service centers where customer reps review customer records with your customers. With T1 PRI, there are 23 voice channels and a data channel that would be connected to a server. When a customer calls, the caller ID data is passed to the server and the server can pull up and display the customer record on the computer screen of the customer rep as they are answering the incoming call.
Your business T1 line can be devoted to Internet access. You could plug the T1 line into a card in your LAN server to provide a bandwidth of 1.544 Mbps to the Internet. This bandwidth is comparable to 30 to 60 dialup connections (depending on the dialup line quality). Because the T1 line is digital, there will be no degradation due to crosstalk or line noise.
Alternately, your T1 line may integrate both phone and Internet services. You will commit a certain number of "channels" to phone service and the remainder to the Internet. An added card in the PBX streams the Internet data to an interface card in your LAN server. This is a widely used option for many small and medium sized businesses.
How Will You Cut Costs By Using a Business T1 Line?
Consider a business that desires to replace their present individual phone lines and their Internet service provider with a T1 line. The most important reduction in costs is due to the elimination of the monthly charges for the individual phone lines as well as your Internet access expenses.
Your ongoing overhead will include a monthly lease expense for the T1 line and phone charges which come packaged with the T1 line. Your cost for a T1 line chiefly depends on the distance between your business and the phone company's customer office. Additionally, there will be one time charges for the PBX device and other interface devices and cabling that your particular physical layout requires. There will also be continuing maintenance fees associated with the PBX and other devices.
Numerous small and medium businesses find a T1 line to be an excellent means to reduce expenses as well as provide higher quality and dependability to their customers and employees. You should get a business T1 line quote to see if this is a profitable choice for your business.
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