Hi Mathew,
Thank you for your reply. We already have 2 Mbps line from Bharti Airtel running at 100% capacity. We are also planning to get 4 Mbps DSL line from MTNL Delhi.
Why go to all the trouble of getting 3 separate lines like that, especially since you can't combine them easily to get what would amount to a total of 8mbit/s... and at the end of the day, there are two other things to think about:
1. An 8mbit/s lease line probably wouldn't cost too much more (if at all) than the 3 separate lines (however, you haven't mentioned the quoted price for such a line so I don't know what they're planning to charge you)
2. A leased line comes with a service level agreement (so, apart from speed, you're also paying for guaranteed uptime).
We are planning to opt 2 Mbps lease line from
TATA communication, although I am not sure how good their services are. BTW is Spectranet any good in Delhi. I received their call couple of days ago, but I never heard about them before
Tata's leased line services are pretty much as good as you'll get in India, and according to one of your previous posts is delivered over MTNL infrastructure which means it should be sufficient (YMMV, I've heard both good and bad things about MTNL Delhi), but since you're getting a leased line, if it goes down more than a certain amount each month, Tata would be liable.
As of now, I have no issues with Spectranet - it's owned by Shyam Telecom which is the same company behind MTS in India. I have a server in their data centre in Gurgaon thanks to my hosting partner, and connectivity seems pretty stable on the whole.
They claim to have their own last-mile infrastructure everywhere they provide, but I'm not sure to what extent that is - if I get a chance I'll ask them next time I get them on the phone.
Our main reason behind opting lease line is that we need good uploading speed, so that we can upload at least 18-20 GB data within 24 hours. So let me know if lease line is a good option for that.
Thank you!
It should be sufficient for that much - 2mbit/s upstream will allow you a theoretical maximum of about 21GB per 24-hour period, but you're not really giving yourself much leeway.
If it were me, I'd definitely be ditching the two consumer-oriented services and investing that money in to increased capacity on the leased line... the 6k or so per month works out to 72k per year, so based on your aforementioned prices of Rs80k per megabit per year, if you're already looking at 1.6 lakhs per year for 2mbit/s, you could probably negotiate for 4mbit/s for 2.4 lakhs per year - or more if you try really hard (at that price they're still making a pretty paise even if they offered you 8mbit/s).
Additionally, when pricing it out, do take in to account things like support costs when dealing with consumer-level services: with the SLA, they are contractually bound to limit your downtime, but also the customer service for your leased line will be a lot more helpful than the customer service for a standard broadband connection... depending on your situation, it may end up saving you money as far as working-hours for your technicians are concerned (I'm assuming that you are having to create a
business case to submit this to your boss/accounts dept/etc and that they will care about these sorts of improvements on the bottom line).
