Companies Need to Bond, ISWest Has Perfect Solution.Business Editors ISWest, one of Southern California's largest and most successful Business-to-Business ISPs, announced today it has begun selling low-cost Bonded T1s to organizations that require dedicated bandwidth at speeds higher than standard T1 (1.5Mbps) but not as high as DS3 speeds (45Mbps). The main benefits of Bonded T1s include: Higher burstable speeds, reduces costs to meeting bandwidth needs; increases efficiencies by actively routing traffic requests and avoiding overload of a single T1 connection; faster deployment to customer's location, when compared to installing fiber optic lines; and perfect for companies that need to send frequent emails with large file attachments, transfer extensive video or image files, host a busy Web or FTP site A server on the Internet that maintains files for downloading. An FTP site may be one or more servers or just one or two folders dedicated to file transfer on a single server. See FTP and anonymous FTP. , or connect corporate intranets with moderate to high usage. "ISWest's Internet Dedicated Bonded T1s allow customers to combine two, three or four full T1s to get a larger connection to the Internet without having to invest into fiber optic connections, which can be very expensive and take up to 180 days to get installed," says Robert V. Johnson, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. for ISWest. "We provide a 1.544Mbps connection for each T1 from the customer's location to our state-of-the-art Data Center in Agoura Hills. By combining multiple T1s together using Cisco's (Nasdaq:CSCO CSCO Cisco Systems Incorporated (stock symbol) CSCO Chief Supply Chain Officer ) bonding technology, ISWest is able to offer its customers new speeds up to 6Mbps at a very low cost." "Bonded T1s are the ideal solution for organizations with heavy traffic loads. Outbound traffic Traffic originating in the continental United States destined for overseas or overseas traffic moving in a general direction away from the continental United States. , from your site to the Internet, is dispersed simultaneously through active routing over the multiple T-1 connections to provide optimal load sharing Distributing the workload between two or more computers. See load balancing. and bursting capabilities," says Drew J. Kaplan, Director of Sales and Marketing for ISWest. This allows customers to grow incrementally rather than a costly upgrade to a DS3 (45MB) connection. The Bonded T1 solution can also be installed in 7-21 working days, rather than 90-180 days for a Fiber Optic connection. About ISWest Founded in 1996 and ranked the 4th largest ISP (1) See in-system programmable. (2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines. in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County by the "Los Angeles Business Journal," ISWest is a full service Internet Provider with 10 Major backbone providers under one roof. ISWest specializes in Server Co-location, Managed Co-location, High Speed T1s & DS3s, DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary and Web Hosting for businesses. For additional information, 29219 Canwood Street, Suite 110, Agoura Hills, CA 91301; 818-735-3000; or visit www.iswest.com. |
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