tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817830849186143303.post4847953548351344417..comments2008-12-04T07:47:24.930-08:00John Williamsnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817830849186143303.post-67439068400705197452008-12-04T07:47:24.930-08:002008-12-04T07:47:24.930-08:00Businesses are Increasing their Broadband Usage<BR/><BR/>If you’re looking for a narrow snapshot of the overall health of business telecom, you might want to check out a recent research report from Vertical Systems Group. <BR/><BR/>In a report entitled “U.S. <BR/>Access Landlines Connect 5.3 Million Business Sites,” lead author and VSG Principal Rick Malone finds that the number of business customers with landline connections at their U.S. sites has increased by nearly 700,000 lines over the past five years to the aforementioned 5.3 links. That’s a net increase of about 7 percent over that period.<BR/><BR/>However, as reported elsewhere, the trend towards growth in broadband access lines has started to reverse itself over the last four to five months. Malone has been quoted predicting a “moderate downturn,” though “not a huge disastrous” one in business broadband access.<BR/><BR/>The decline in business access lines is largely due to office/site closings, especially among financial services companies, according to Malone, who feels businesses are likely only to add access lines where deployments are already in progress or new access lines will bring near-term savings over the existing plant. Examples include legacy network (Frame Relay and ATM) convergence and migration to an IP VPN or Ethernet VPLS transport.<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.simplyusedphones.com/phone.html" REL="nofollow">T1 Prices</A> <A HREF="http://www.simplyusedphones.com/t1.html" REL="nofollow">T1 Providers</A>Mark Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03695029554149650895noreply@blogger.com