T1 Catalog Sheet

T1 High-Speed Connection

Providing your company with business class Internet solutions at an affordable price, PenTeleData has built one of the country's largest privately owned fiber-optic networks.

Staying in close and constant contact with colleagues and business associates all over the world with a dedicated T1 Internet connection from PenTeleData opens the door to the most effective access solution for any medium-sized to large entity. Why an Internet T1? Send countless large files, conduct video conferencing and receive the assurances you need to keep the data flowing in and out of your office computers at lightning speeds. A T1 Internet connection from PenTeleData eliminates the wait for data to transfer and information to display. With a PenTeleData Internet T1, the web becomes a thing of beauty, delivering the Internet to your company's computers up to 50 times faster than a standard dial-up connection and 20 times faster than ISDN. With a T1 Internet connection from PenTeleData, waiting is a memory of the past.

We here at PenTeleData understand that the flow of data between businesses changes from day to day, week to week. A reliable, full-time, dedicated, high-speed T1 Internet connection is mission critical to your organization at any given moment. The dependability delivered by a PenTeleData T1 Internet connection is the solution.

What is a T1 Internet connection from PenTeleData?

A T1 Internet connection from PenTeleData is a high-bandwidth, digital circuit providing 1.54 Mbps of data. It is a private point-to-point dedicated connection between you, the customer, and PenTeleData. T1 connections from PenTeleData provide unlimited usage and are reliable, high capacity Internet connections for businesses and high traffic websites. Use your Internet T1 to host your busy company's website on your own in-house server. Our Network specialists continuously monitor your system and are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. PenTeleData's Internet T1 service provides your company with business class Internet by having implemented an unprecedented Service Level Agreement (SLA).

How does a T1 work?

A T1 from PenTeleData, put simply, is a fast, dedicated service. Our customer's traffic flows from their local network, through a router and a CSU/DSU at their office, over the T1, back to PenTeleData's node, and then across PenTeleData's OC-12 private fiber backbone to its final destination. This could be a machine on the PenTeleData network, our mail server, news server or something on the Internet. A T1 from PenTeleData is a hard line. There is no dialing in or authentication involved. With data transfer speeds to 1.54 Mbps, a T1 Internet connection is the fastest, highest performance, fiber or non-fiber solution for a full-time Internet connection. A time-proven technology, T1 access has been the service of choice for small businesses for which top-grade access is a necessity.

What is a CSU/DSU?

A CSU/DSU (Channel Service Unit / Data Service Unit) is a piece of equipment that connects a leased line from the telephone company to the customer's equipment (such as a router). It performs line encoding and conditioning functions and often has a loop back function for testing. Although CSU/DSU's look similar to modems, they are not modems, and they don't modulate or demodulate between analog and digital. All they really do is interface between a 56 kbps, T1, or T3 line and serial interface (typically a V.35 connector) that connects to the router. Many newer routers have 56 kbps or T1 CSU/DSU's built into them. CSU/DSU's for 56 kbps, T1, and T3 lines are NOT the same and are not interchangeable as a general rule. In the case of a T1 CSU/DSU, it passes the data through 24, 64 kbps channels (64 kbps x 24 = 1.54 Mbps). A CSU/DSU is not to be confused with a router. A router connects your entire office to the Internet, and with other PenTeleData services may also function as your firewall, VPN server and other things.

A PenTeleData T1 connection is designed to meet the needs of a business that has greater bandwidth demands. Our T1 connections were designed with your business in mind. PenTeleData's rate-shaped Internet T1's start at 128 kbps ranging to a full bandwidth of 1.54 Mbps. PenTeleData's Internet T1's are designed to grow with your company's needs. PenTeleData also offers such versatile dedicated high-speed Internet services as EtherPoint, Frame Relay, Cable, DSL, T3, ATM and FlexT-One. Please contact PenTeleData for details on these innovative dedicated Internet access solutions.

Founded in 1994, PenTeleData is Pennsylvania's largest provider of Internet service / data connectivity and has engineered one of the most reliable, multi-megabit, redundant, fully meshed, privately-owned networks in the nation. Running on high-speed lines (OC-12, OC-3, DS3, DS1) and OC-12/OC-3 SONET rings, our ATM network (asynchronous transfer mode) with more than 60 Points of Presence (PoPs) throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey delivers the highest quality Voice, Video, Data and Internet services the region has to offer.

PenTeleData provides virtually everything Internet and network-related, from high-speed connections and design, to desktop sales and support. The fact is, PenTeleData may even own the fiber-optic lines on the utility pole outside of your business. This experienced team at PenTeleData is committed to knowing the latest Voice, Video, Data and Internet technologies.

T1 at a Glance

• Proven, reliable solution
• Speeds up to 1.54 Mbps
• Guaranteed bandwidth
• Low latency
• 24 x 7 Connectivity to the Internet
• Unlimited usage
• 24 x 7 x 365 Monitoring through our state-of-the-art Network Control Center
• Scalable to meet your business requirements
• Ideal for hosting high traffic websites
• Your entire company online simultaneously