Ethernet
First Mile (EFM) is another alternative option available to some customers
depending on its availability in their area. It is fast becoming a popular way
to connect your offices to the Internet, or to connect two offices to each
other where fibre is either not available or cost prohibitive.
Offering
a symmetrical guaranteed bandwidth and a 1:1 contention ratio you have the same
consistent download and upload speeds that is not shared with anyone. As the
bandwidth is neither shared, nor capped, you will not see any fluctuations in
speed at peak times or from other users, only what is being consumed by your own
staff will affect the performance of the circuit.
EFM can
offer up to 35Mb/s in some locations, far exceeding traditional DSL products
and comparative with FTTC if available. The actual speed you can get depends on
several factors, whether or not your local telephone exchange has been
EFM-enabled and how far away you are from that exchange. Distance from an
exchange is measured by the length of the copper cables linking your premises
to your local telephone exchange not the actual distance as the crow flies,
cabling does not always take the shortest route between two points.
Reliability
is critical to any business, typical ADSL and SDSL services are delivered over only
one pair of copper wires, whereas EFM is delivered over two or more pairs of copper
wires up-to a maximum of 8. This enables a more resilient service to be created
that is usually covered by an SLA (Service Level Agreement). As the circuit is
not dependent on any one pair, if one or more stops working you still have a
connection even though it will operate at a slower speed. This is made possible
by the pairs for any single EFM circuit being distributed over different
equipment within an exchange.
Benefits
of using EFM
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Improved reliability using multiple copper pairs
(up to a maximum of 8)
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Symmetrical speeds
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1:1 contention ratio
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Enhanced support with SLA guarantee
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High speed connectivity up to 35Mbps
For more information please contact us or give us a call.