If your business has outgrown broadband or ISDN connections, you need a leased line. Examples of some common business problems best solved with a leased line solution are:

• "We have more than 20 staff accessing the internet simultaneously, and access is often quite slow".
• "We regularly transfer large amounts of data".
• "We need to host our webserver and/or mail server at our offices but also allow access to Internet users".
• "Our ISDN connection is costing us a fortune in call charges".
• "We have several broadband connections to our offices, but we really need to co-ordinate monitoring, firewalling and virus checking across all connections to the Internet from our LAN".
• "We have several offices and want all of them to be able to share resources securely as if they were in the same building".

A leased line offers the fastest, most robust and most flexible solution for

connecting your business to the Internet. For a robust solution, you need robust providers and we at Progressive Networks have the expertise and network to provide you with a top quality solution.

Because a leased line is a dedicated line connecting one or more of your offices to the Internet or each other. The line is permanently available as opposed to analogue or ISDN lines.

As leased lines are offered at a fixed annual cost and have no additional telephone call charges they can offer economies over an ISDN account as well as faster data transfer speeds.

If you have multiple offices these can be connected using Leased line connections and a Private Network created. This will allow your offices to share resources securely as if they were within the same building. These connections can be delivered with or without Internet access.

The installation and subsequent rental costs of a Leased Line is dependant on the distance between the two ends of the circuit. For Internet serving Leased Lines this will be the distance to our nearest Point-of-Presence. For Point-to-point circuits it is the distance between the two sites.

You can view some examples of how leased lines can improve your company's communications here. Or if you would like a quote for your Leased Line, please click here or contact our sales team.