How Do Businesses Scale Their Bandwidth Needs?

onebadmutha asks: "I'm technology admin for a very rapidly growing company. We've gone from a fractional T-1, to supplementing that with a snappy DSL line, and now we're running out of reasonable options. I've looked at routers that load-balance, but do so horribly. I've considered splitting up my network users to use several incoming DSL lines, only to be confronted with intranet accessibility issues. None of these provide the kind of redundancy and control that I'd like, and certainly not with a nice pleasant UI that doesn't cause me great grief. I've looked at Open Source router distros (like routerOS, and others) and I've looked at using the full gamut of Microsoft madness. How do other businesses solve this problem of scaling bandwidth needs, without completely unlimited budgets for redundant OC-48 runs?"

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Intranet and Internet

[pete-classic]

From the In-Touch website:

Our Technicians Offer:

Consultation, Installation, Upgrade,
and Technical Support of:
[. . .]
        - Intranet and Internet

Have you tried dialing zero and asking for one of these technicians?

-Peter

Looting and polluting is not the way

[linvir]

Here's what Captain Planet has to say

Re:Dark fiber Ethernet service, or fractional DS3

[Anonymous Coward]

Dead on the money AC. You forgot the colo/data-center option, which will generally come with burstable ethernet. This isn't a real tech company though.

Check the link, which has since been removed. The computers page is especially amusing.

Re:2001 called...

[Everleet]

Looks like the good folks over at In-Touch Technical *really* need to update their computers page

They would have uploaded a new page, but they're having some trouble with their internet connection...