Leased Line

rent Line- A leased line is a semiprivate superior circuit leased by a common carrier amid a customer and a service providers network. It is rented on an annual basis and usually carries voice and data or both. lease lines are mostly used for either internet access (Internet lease Line) or used privately between two customer sites ( topographic point to Point Leased Line). Unlike a dial-up colligateion, a leased line is eternally active. Similarly unlike broadband, a leased line is not contended or shared and delivers dedicated guaranteed bandwidth straight to the internet acantha.Customers pay a insurance premium for a leased line and it is supported by a omnibus(prenominal) Service-Level Agreement (SLA) with a guaranteed fix time and a compensation clause. other referred to as a point to point, private circuit, private line or dedicated access. Leased Line History Leased lines services (or private line services) became digital in the 1970s with the conversion of the Bel l backbone network from analog to digital circuits.This conversion allowed AT&T to nominate Dataphone Digital Services (later re-branded digital data services) that started the deployment of ISDN and T1 lines to customer premises to connect. With the extension phone of digital services in the 1980s leased lines were used to connect customer premises to Frame Relay or ATM networks. nettle data rates increased from the original T1 option up to T3 circuits. entry data rates also evolved dramatically to speeds of up to 10Gbit/s in the early 21st century with the Internet boom and increased whirl in long-haul optical networks or Metropolitan Area Networks.