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If your company has ever thought about a leased line as a possible medium for connecting to the Internet, it is probably because you need:

• Reliability and scaleability
  
• Immediate email delivery and receipt
  
• Instantaneous, and secure Internet access
  
• Dedicated 24 hour access, 365 days a year
  
• The ability to host your own web server
  
• Clear budgeting with NO CALL COSTS
  
• Secure remote access to your network from anywhere in the world
  
• A higher level of service and support from your ISP, with reliability and resilience guarantees.
  
• For all of these features, a leased line is the only real option.

Non permanent dial-up access, using a modem or even ISDN, is fine for dabbling on the Internet, but when your company relies on its communications with the outside world, a permanent connection to the Internet is unbeatable.

Even with the best ISP in the world, dial-up access has a number of fundamental flaws.

Your access cannot be guaranteed without a dedicated connection. ISPs host dial in connections on a statistical basis, assuming that all their customers will never attempt to connect at the same time. Although a dial-up service with a good ISP will generally mean that you will get online first time almost every time, you should be aware that you share your dial-in access with every other customer. This is true of every ISP in the world.

With a leased line, you rent your own permanent Internet connection

Dial-up access relies on a huge number of variables and is inherently less reliable than a leased line connection. This is simply because establishing a dial-up connection to your ISP is actually a much more complex task for everybody involved. A modem is more complicated than an ISDN TA, and an ISDN router is more complicated than a leased line router. Any dial-up connection relies heavily on your telecoms operator´s own network - and you would be surprised how often even the best telco´s systems can go wrong. Lastly, your dial-up connection has to be terminated at your ISP - and terminating a modem connection is the most complex task an ISP´s hardware can do.

Leased line connections are reliable because they are simple. They give a permanent dedicated digital signal from end to end.

Dial-up connections also have numerous standards and systems to cope with: V.34, X2, K56, V90, BRI, PRI, ISDN30, Euro ISDN, ISDN2e, BT Highway - the list goes on. Supporting all of these is an extremely complex task. Your modem or TA needs special drivers, your ISDN router needs careful configuration, your ISP needs to support your hardware, your hardware vendor needs to support you.

Leased line standards are simple and well established - your router is supplied, configured and managed remotely on an ongoing basis by us.

ISDN routers are prone to line spoofing errors. Everyone that deals with ISDN routers knows that they never do exactly what they say on the box! If you have a badly configured ISDN router, or your network has a lot of traffic, going on holiday without knowing if your router is working properly is an inherent drawback with dial-up access. Do you really want to spend any of your time away worrying about telephone bills?

With a leased line, you´re always connected to the Internet. No call charges, no connection problems and no disconnection problems.

Even the most intelligent proxy servers, ISDN routers and network connections are subject to dial-up connection delays due to them having to connect and then authenticate with your ISP every time you want access. If your company needs access to the Internet at all, then shouldn't you make sure that it is the best?

With a leased line there are no connection delays - it's always instant access, every time.

A dial-up connection, being non-permanent, inevitably means you can´t host your own web server on site. With company web sites becoming increasingly important and increasingly dynamic, do you want your web site to be constrained by the limitations of your ISP´s free webspace - the same webspace that all dial-up customers get?

With a leased line you can host your own Web/FTP servers on site.

It may not just be a web site that you want to be able to access. More and more companies do business around the world on a day to day basis. They need to have secure access to their data from anywhere in the world.

A leased line can give your employees secure access to the company network from anywhere in the world.

Dial-up connections are not as secure as you might think. A standard dial-up connection may well use a different IP address each time you connect and your connections may well be random, but it is impossible for any ISP to totally firewall every dial-up connection to its services because every user´s needs differ.

With a leased line, your managed router is fully configured to your company´s needs. Full IP and Port firewalling is present as standard at each end of your link to the Internet.

Non permanent dial-up links can´t be monitored effectively because they are random and different for each customer.

With a leased line, your service is monitored 24 hours a day by SMUZI (Systems Monitoring Umbrella @ Zen Internet). We maintain the reliability of your Internet access in exactly the same way as our own.

A dial-up connection means, at best, scheduled email delivery - usually every hour. Perhaps you´d prefer to do business faster than that.

A leased line means you can host your own mail server. Mail is delivered to the Internet as soon as you send it and mail arrives at your server as soon as it is sent. 8 times out 10, the company that gets their quote in first will be the one that wins the business.

Dial-up connections don´t scale. You can go to 64Kbps ISDN and even bonded 128Kbps ISDN (with twice the call charges!) but that's about it.

We offer leased lines right up to 2Mbps and systems that can be switched to new bandwidths at the flick of a switch. One thing you can guarantee today is that your company´s Internet usage is going to grow. With Zen's service your leased line can grow with you.

If your company is serious about the benefits that the Internet offers, don´t hang around with dial-up connections - take the leased line advantage. Look at the options today.

Imagine what your computer network could do with a leased line high speed internet connection.

We guarantee that we can speed up your internet connection at a cheaper price whatever your circumstances.

Our leased line quote service is free and without obligation.