IntraLink
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join:2002-08-14
Utah Valley
| reply to tallen03
Re: Fiber internet
Fiber is a good medium, but may cost more to provision at first. Sounds like that's not really the case with your fiber opportunity.
What you really want to ask the people providing the fiber link is what they can serve you in terms of a CIR (Commited Information Rate). You can't really trust their offerings if they are giving you a "burst" rate unless they have the math to back up their "burst" terms in their SLA.
And ask them how much CIR bandwidth can they give you RIGHT NOW. That will give you an idea of how oversubscribed they are or if they have CIR bandwidth to spare. If it's not much, you can't trust that they will be able to grow as you grow and then you're stuck.
But the advantage of fiber is usually the ability to seemlessly scale your rate without introducing new hardware.
Like most have stated here, fiber is just a medium and no indicator of what's being fed through it. |
