Hello,
Our company is expanding and as such is getting a separate office building a few miles down the road. I was originally planning on using two ubiquiti dishes to accomplish this, but we aren't going to be able to achieve line of sight - so that rules that out. Our other two options are a VPN or a leased line (point-to-point). From what I've researched online, a VPN won't work very well with some of our database programs due to latency, so users would need to remote in to the terminal server for those applications. A leased line sounds like it should work, but I wanted to ask here as I don't have any experience with a leased line. The only lease line option we have is listed below (quote from our telco):
The only option available is a VZ ILEC Intralata Point to Point T1 at 1.5M /1.5M speed. We cannot offer the VZB (Verizon Business) services when they are in VZ territory and intralata. This would include: Internet leased line.. delivered over fiber / Ethernet leased line / DIA line. I have attached both the State tariff pricing and the FCC tariff pricing. 1st attachment: State tariff is higher monthly but lower install: $833.76 /mo. $252.45 Install 2nd attachment: FCC is lower monthly but higher install: $388.20 /mo. $1080.00 Install These are the only options for a Point to Point connection for this customer. This would be your own private Point to Point circuit. We'd provide 2 Smart Jacks - one at each end. You'd have to work with your computer vendor and phone vendor regarding equipment and programming needed to have both locations "talk" to each other as you require.
Would this be enough for typical office use (internet, email, opening pdf files, word/excel, peachtree accounting software (pervasive sql database), and a handful of internal access databases? From the quote, it sounds like we would also be able to link it up to our phone system (NEC Electra Elite IPK), is this correct? Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated.