Team 1 – Dorothy & Sarah
Technology T1 - The name T1 came from the carrier letter assigned by AT&T to the technology. Essentially, the "T" is a part
number that was assigned by AT&T. T-carrier was next letter available and T1 is the first level in the hierarchy.
The phone company moves nearly all voice traffic as digital rather than analog signals. Your analog line gets
converted to a digital signal by sampling it 8,000 times per second at 8-bit resolution (64,000 bits per second).
Nearly all digital data now flows over fiber optic lines, and the phone company uses different designations to talk
about the capacity of a fiber optic line.
If your office has a T1 line, it means that the phone company has brought a fiber optic line into your office (a T1
line might also come in on copper). A T1 line can carry 24 digitized voice channels, or it can carry data at a rate of
1.544 megabits per second. If the T1 line is being used for telephone conversations, it plugs into the office's phone
system. If it is carrying data it plugs into the network's router.
A T1 line can carry about 192,000 bytes per second -- roughly 60 times more data than a normal residential
modem. It is also extremely reliable -- much more reliable than an analog modem. Depending on what they are
doing, a T1 line can generally handle quite a few people. For general browsing, hundreds of users are easily able to
share a T1 line comfortably.
A T1 line is available almost anywhere unlike DSL. The connection is always up and running 24/7 guaranteed. T1
lines are a higher quality internet service providing a firm foundation for other advanced applications such as
email, web servers, multi-user VPN, Citrix, or VOIP services. T1 connections can decrease expensive phone bills by
placing up to 23 phone lines with dedicated long distance service on the T1 line in addition to internet service.
A large company needs something more than a T1 line. The following list shows some of the common line
DS0 - 64 kilobits per second
ISDN - Two DS0 lines plus signaling (16 kilobytes per second), or 128 kilobits per second
T1 - 1.544 megabits per second (24 DS0 lines)
T3 - 43.232 megabits per second (28 T1s)
OC3 - 155 megabits per second (84 T1s)
OC12 - 622 megabits per second (4 OC3s)
OC48 - 2.5 gigabits per seconds (4 OC12s)
OC192 - 9.6 gigabits per second (4 OC48s)
Maturity Mature – T1 lines gained in popularity when the internet took off in the 1990s Before then, they were used by
larger businesses and telephone company central offices as a means to transport voice traffic between locations.
Alternatives Cable, DSL and wireless.
The line speed is always consistent, but the payload can vary greatly. Expensive solution. Most reliable.
Costs A T1 line might cost between $550 and $1,200 per month depending on who provides it and where it goes. The
other end of the T1 line needs to be connected to a web server, and the total cost is a combination of the fee the
phone company charges and the fee the ISP charges.
T3/DS3 can cost between $7500 and $14,000 per month. Used when T1 is not enough. Need ability to quickly
increase your data capacity up to 45 Mbps or up to 650+ dedicated phone lines. More cost effective than bonding
multiple T1 lines. Providers: Verizon or AT&T
References http://www.t1shipper.com - http://communication.howstuffworks.com – Novell primer -
Applications All Telehealth and support applications for both patient/trainee and provider. ** need to add specific applications
for cross reference