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The traditional telcos, AT&T, Lumen, Frontier, Consolidated, Windstream, and the others, are all betting hard on Fiber Broadband. This is great for the SMB market as well as multi-site Enterprises. They get the scalability and reliability of Fiber Optic transport to their offices for a low-cost (i.e. sub $200 monthly for a 1G/1G circuit). However, keep in mind, that there are typically No SLAs just like any other "broadband" service. However, at this price point, it's much more affordable than Dedicated Internet (that has SLAs) and is a much higher bandwidth for applications than slow legacy DSL. Fiber Broadband becomes the killer app against the Cable company's Coax service which also is low-cost bandwidth. However, Coax runs the risk of not being as reliable as Fiber in the argument between Copper Vs Fiber. Also, today's Cable Coax services cannot offer the upload speeds Fiber can which is critical for certain applications. The other challenge telcos are running into is more 3rd Party players entering the game. More and more regional and local ISP (Internet Service Providers) are building out their fiber footprint in areas underserved by both the telcos and cable companies and grabbing market share. This added pressure is pushing the price of bandwidth lower and lower in the "race to $0". It may never get to "free" in our lifetime but great rates are being offered all the time. Lastly, this opens the door to a very cost-effective resilient design option: SDWAN and 2 broadband circuits. SDWAN with 2 broadband circuits creates a design that aggregates multiple circuits for higher bandwidth, automatically fails over to eliminate outages and is low cost. The single Dedicated Internet circuit, albeit has SLAs, is still a single point of failure and your office undergoes an outage and complete business disruption if the circuit is cut. The monthly expenses are also very high. SDWAN with 2 broadband circuits (from different carriers and cable routes) becomes the most resilient design for the money.
Please contact us at info@winnthorn.com to qualify your locations for high-speed low-cost broadband options from multiple carriers.