Sunday, March 23, 2008

Shopping for T1 Lines

If you are going to do price quotes and comparisons for T1 prices on the internet, who are the most trusted people out there, they pioneered the worlds' first and only real-time price quote software (they have the patent to prove it!), or professional "lead generators" who are only interested in earning a referral fee by sending your information to every internet vendor out there?

Until 2003, shopping for T1 lines meant doing the legwork yourself. Recently, agents who specialize in high speed DS1 (T1) and DS3 (T3) lines have popped up to volunteer to do this research for you, by hand, in less than 7 days. If you are looking to price qoutes on bandwidth and routers for your WAN or LAN network in less than a week, you would find nothing but frustration and eventually higher prices. You search in your favorite search engine and you see millions of pages, all of which claim to save you a bunch of money. In reality what your are seeing are a bunch of internet marketing people who know little about dedicated Internet service at all. They create simple online forms that look like they have been programmed by a seventh grade student which captures your information, and either sends it to every internet vendor in the universe or some in-house former used-car salesman who will sell you whatever will pay him the biggest bonus. The internet is littered with this garbage, confusing dedicated internet customers and leaving a sour taste in their mouth. What started out as a search for competitively priced dedicated services has turned into a circus!

Rolling Up Their Sleeves to Provide Dedicated Service Information Quickly
Patrick Oborn and Adam Edwards, decided to take the road less traveled. They realized early on that in order to create an online experience that was worthy of your time, we needed to provide information you can use. In order to do that, they invested a full year researching all of the different T1 providers in order to understand their pricing models and services, many of which were created long before they were born. Based on information they got from this research, they invested heavily in complex programming that would allow them to calculate loop prices, or the cost that the local phone companies pass on to the dedicated internet service providers for access to their network. This cost varies by mile, by market, and by area of the country. Once they rolled up our sleeves and performed extensive testing, they called our product 'GeoQuote' and released it to the public on Shopfort1.com in 2003. They are currently in the process of patenting their unique technology.

ShopforT1 is a Trusted Name
On January 1, 2007, ShopforT1.com reached $2,000,000 in monthly billing revenue. Such a milestone not only validates their commitment to excellence, but their commitment to you - their prospective customer. They process massive quantities of orders each month, but at the same time pay meticulous detail to every need of each and every one of their clients. That is how they are able to sign up and retain a vast pool of customers that include the United States Government, Defense Contractors, Hospitals, Law Offices, Internet Service Providers, Wireless ISPs, State Colleges, Hosting Companies, and many more. When you talk to a ShopforT1 specialist, you do not receive a sales pitch - you tap into years of internet experience and expertise. Helping businesses find the right cheap T1 line internet connection provider at the right price is the ONLY thing they do! More from the article on Shopfort1.com >>>

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Is Gigabit Ethernet the future?

Ethernet is, quite simply put, plugging your network directly into a telecommunication provider's network. When you bypass the local telephone company you cut out an expensive transportation step. Having direct access to customers is a telecom carrier's goal as it allows them to control the user's experience from end to end while cutting cost. These savings are passed on to you. "The market for managed Metro Ethernet services is expected to grow by 30 per cent a year until 2010, when it will top $25 billion (203bn) worldwide."
Infonetics Research - July 2007

"Over time, Ethernet will overwhelm SONET in the MAN/WAN market. Ethernet is cheaper, has better economies of scale and allows for easier, more unified networks. Ethernet is knocking at the gates, and it's coming in."
Greg Collins - July 2007 Business Communications Review Magazine