What is BusinessBand?
It is a truly unrestricted service with no contention on our network, port blocking or data limitations, and could help boost the performance of your network and allow you to upload faster.
If you are a business with multiple sites or offices, and you connect your business network with VPN, Terminal Services, or Citrix connections, the increased outbound connection speed that BusinessBand delivers will increase your business network's performance.
BusinessBand is a hybrid rate-adaptive product, it offers the best possible speed using existing ADSL standards.
The service enables customers to get up to 4 Mbit speeds downstream, and 832 kbit speeds upstream along a standard telephone line.
During the first 10 days after the service has been provided a piece of equipment known as the DLM (Dynamic Line management) unit is constantly assessing the characteristics of the line in order to provide the end user with the maximum achievable speed for their line. In this period the DLM can make adjustments to the DSLAM output power, SNR and bit rate and even apply a form of error correction known as interleaving. Several factors dictate the maximum available speed, such as the presence of noise within the frequency spectrum used by ADSL but chiefly it is the distance from the Central Office (Telephone Exchange) which has the largest influence on the lines performance.