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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[linvir]

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... bla bla bla tech speak bla bla skip this part bla bla bla... Microsoft madness. bla bla bla make a joke about a game called "Microsoft Madness" bla bla bla, without completely unlimited budgets for bla bla bla?"

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[linvir]

I was attempting to implement the Speare doctrine of learning, whereby Mr. Onebadmutha would learn by solving *his* problems. This was to be accomplished by providing a handy link to his company website, thus providing him with the vital practice he is so clearly begging us for, and would already be receiving had Cliff not blatantly cut his link from the summary. For shame.