Single FTTP vs Multi FTTC
Discussion
We provide internet connectivity to multiple sites - our larger sites have been using 100mb FTTP since before the days of cheap FTTC, so it was the only option at that time. Our smaller sites have been migrating from ISDN/ADSL recently to 80 or 40mb FTTC.
Now FTTP is about £600 a month, compared to 40 a month for FTTC. It's a massive cost difference. We've been monitoring the larger sites, and their utilisation rarely peaks above 50% and mainly hovvers around 20%. Upload barely registers.
For a fraction of the cost of FTTP, we could bond two FTTC giving similar performance?
So what's the downside? Am I missing something obvious? Note this connections are purely used for internet access, no site-to-site or anything complicated - saving each site over £5k a year is huge...
Now FTTP is about £600 a month, compared to 40 a month for FTTC. It's a massive cost difference. We've been monitoring the larger sites, and their utilisation rarely peaks above 50% and mainly hovvers around 20%. Upload barely registers.
For a fraction of the cost of FTTP, we could bond two FTTC giving similar performance?
So what's the downside? Am I missing something obvious? Note this connections are purely used for internet access, no site-to-site or anything complicated - saving each site over £5k a year is huge...
SLA might be different/better for FTTP if that matters to you, depends on how important connectivity is to each site I suppose. If it's not important enough to care about SLA, then I probably wouldn't even bond FTTC from the utilisation you have stated, sounds like it would be just fine without.
I've used TP-Link load balancing routers on a couple of sites to 'bond' two connections together, good value and easy to set up.
http://uk.tp-link.com/products/biz-list-4910.html
http://uk.tp-link.com/products/biz-list-4910.html
Sorry yes, they're leased lines rather than FTTP. Contention ratio will be higher, but based on usage I don't see this being a problem. Tighter SLA on the leased, but for the cost saving, we could provide 4G failover in those situations.
Will have to investigate further, thanks for all the info
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