Monday, December 7, 2009

Going the Last Mile - Managed Wireless Local Loop

I opened my first office when I was 19 years old. Fresh out of the dorms, all I knew about the internet was that the data jack was bigger than the phone jack. After that, you just plug in and it worked, right? I had grown up in a time when there was one phone company-- "The" phone company. So, naturally, I picked up the phone (my cell, that is) and called to get the landlines installed.

It was a new office. I could smell the paint and the carpet. I felt like I had arrived. There were jacks on the walls, and where there's jacks there's data, right? Wrong. I learned a lesson about the way the world works that day: Buying new is never cheap. You see, whereas "The" phone company had invested their own capital in getting DSL service available to my area, getting it into the building was my cost--and what a cost it was, too.

From the core network to the access network may entail hundreds and thousands of miles of fiber-optic and copper cable. That cost is reflected in the service rates we all pay. But it was the last mile, from the D-Box to my shiny little jacks in my crisp-smelling new office, that caught me off-guard.

Today, there's a better option. Accel Networks proprietary technology puts businesses online in just 3-days. By providing a managed wireless local loop, Accel uses fixed wireless broadband to deliver last-mile connectivity with less headaches, better SLA's, and often times lower cost than wireline solutions. If you can talk on your cell phone from your place of business, then the infrastructure is already there. All you need is Accel's uniquely engineered wireless hardware and your last mile connectivity is established.

Labels: "Internet infrastructure", Fixed Wireless Broadband, Last Mile, Local Loop