Business NBN is now available in many areas across Australia and is replacing ADSL2 and SHDSL, which relied on the old copper network. The roll-out of the infrastructure means faster and more reliable broadband being available to businesses. This includes Business NBN and Enterprise NBN.
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One of the main reasons for consumer grade ADSL being cheaper was that residential services were shared between more users than business connections (contention ratio). That affected the overall quality, especially the speed which was prone to greater fluctuations. As a general rule, consumer ADSL services were shared by around 3x more users than business ADSL.
Static IP addresses are a necessary part of a business IT network. As opposed to a dynamic IP address, a static address doesn't change each time you accessed the ADSL service. It's dedicated to your business and can be programmed into any of the business applications you use. Consumer-grade ADSL connections did not come with static IP addresses.
Business ADSL services were backed by a 24/7 technical support team which specialises in business connections. It's based in Australia and the operators are trained to understand business requirements. The services were also backed by written SLA (service level agreements) covering installation lead times, service restoration, and availability.
Used by small businesses with general internet needs and ones that didn't require high upload speeds. One of the main draw backs of ADSL was the low upload speed which effected the way businesses were able to use cloud based applications. Fast upload speeds are necessary for efficient and productive use of business apps like Office 365, One Drive, Drop Box, and a host of others.
ADSL2+ was also used as a dedicated broadband service for Business VoIP and Hosted PBX systems with up to 6 call lines. 80 to 100kpbs in both upload and download speeds were allocated to each call line.
Emergency back up service to business fibre and fixed wireless broadband. The service was used as a contingency measure in case the main service went down.
Often used as a dedicated broadband service for specific business applications such as point of sale and accounting software.
ADSL has been by far the most widely used business broadband service for small businesses.
ADSL (asymmetric digital subscriber line) is a form of broadband connection that uses the existing copper telephone lines to deliver an internet service.
The term asymmetric refers to the upload and download speeds, which are different. Download speeds are faster than upload speeds. Business grade services are of higher quality because of lower congestion and higher average speeds.
The difference between the three types of ADSL services were the maximum speeds able to be achieved.
ADSL achieved a maximum download speed of 8Mbps, ADSL2 a maximum of 12Mbps, and ADSL2+ a maximum of 20Mbps.
ADSL2+ up to speeds were the maximum speeds able to be achieved by the technology. Actual speeds were lower than that and depended on a number of key factors.
An IP address is a unique identifier of the location of the computer hardware that is accessing a network or the internet. A static IP address is a dedicated IP address that is assigned to a broadband connection. As a general rule, only business grade services are allocated a dedicated IP address. Static IP Addresses are necessary when running a business IT network and for a variety of cloud based services.
Business VoIP and Hosted PBX were used with business ADSL as long as the allowance was made for the number of concurrent phone calls. Business-grade IP telephony requires an allocation of 100kpbs of bandwidth in both directions i.e. upload and download. With download speed generally not being an issue, an average ADSL service delivered around 600kpbs in upload bandwidth. This meant that without using the service for anything else, it was only capable of supporting up to 6 concurrent phone calls.
