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Hey All

I am trying to ascertain what is the best corporate solution for WAN connectivity

ADSL vpn, diginet, fixed wireless etc etc..

Whats your company using?
 
What's the distance between your branches? What speed lines are you looking for, and how worried are you about downtime?
 
We using 128k lines as well, trying to find an alternative that isnt ADSL or bigger diginet lines that cost an arm and a leg.
 
KoRn said:
We using 128k lines as well, trying to find an alternative that isnt ADSL or bigger diginet lines that cost an arm and a leg.
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What we do is have a smallish Diginet line like a 384 and then a 4 Mb ADSL line for browsing and non critical applications. If those two lines goes down I have a 3G router with a prepaid sim card.

Don't really think there is anything else out there for Coporate WAN links. Unless you want to pay and arm and a leg or go wireless which I wouldn't recommend.
 
For corps there isn't much choice. Digi might be carp but at least you can get an SLA. With DSL if its down then too bad.
 
Due to a centralized setup we are very dependent on the lines. We need faster lines in order to run voip which we are doing currently with all our normal data as well and as you can imagine we don't get that many concurrent calls!

I have been looking at adsl, but it seems the best setup is going to be diginet plus adsl and some sort of fail over / selective load balancing.

Any one ever look into the true cost of a diginet line? I wonder how much telkom makes of a digint line.
 
Amida said:
What we do is have a smallish Diginet line like a 384 and then a 4 Mb ADSL line for browsing and non critical applications. If those two lines goes down I have a 3G router with a prepaid sim card.
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If I may ask, how much do you pay for your 384k diginet line?
 
I recommend to my smaller clients, where possible, to use an MPLS network solution and simply outsource the entire network to a third party. Less headaches having to fight with Telkom as to whether a branch is down because of the line or because of your router.... If a single company manages everything then the buck stops with them. They can also configure 3G fail-over on their system in case things go wrong.

If you interested in pricing for diginet look here: http://www.telkom.co.za/common/pricelist/downloads/tariffdownload.html. Pretty cool app, simply enter both branches and the type of line required and it calculates the rate.

What surprises me is that more companies don't use WAN compression technologies. Our company supplies a product (Citrix Wanscaler) that provides awesome compression; with an ROI of less than 6 months in some cases....
 
Also contact Vodacom for a quote on lines. People forget that they can also provide links (diginet included). I'm waiting for a quote from them and Telkom now. Sadly, Neotel didn't even respond.
 
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