Leased line or business broadband? A guide for Pollachi businesses

Business internet in Pollachi has changed

Coconut and coir exporters send documents to buyers abroad, textile and handloom units in Negamam take orders online, hospitals and diagnostic centres upload scans, colleges run exams on the web and every shop takes UPI. For many businesses around Pollachi, an hour without internet is now an hour without business.

The two options most businesses weigh are an internet leased line (ILL) and business broadband. Both run on fibre. They differ in what is guaranteed.

What is an internet leased line?

A leased line is a dedicated, symmetrical connection between your premises and the provider's network. The bandwidth you buy is reserved for you, upload and download alike, whatever other customers are doing.

What really sets it apart is the service level agreement (SLA): a written commitment on uptime, latency and repair time. Downtime becomes something the provider owes you a fix for, not something you absorb.

• 1:1 dedicated bandwidth, the same speed up and down
• SLA-backed uptime, latency and repair time
• IPv4 and IPv6 on the same link, ready for servers and hosting
• Multi-path last mile: fibre with a wireless backup path

See our internet leased line service in Pollachi for the details.

What is business broadband?

Business broadband sits between a home plan and a leased line. The fibre is shared, but business traffic is prioritised, a static public IPv4 address is available, and support understands that an office cannot wait until tomorrow.

It costs far less than a leased line and suits most shops, clinics, small offices, hotels, restaurants and coaching centres. Read more on our business broadband page.

Side by side

Choose a leased line when

• Upload speed matters as much as download: video conferencing all day, cloud backups, hosting, CCTV streamed to another site
• Downtime costs real money: hospitals, diagnostic labs, banks and NBFC branches, IT and BPO offices, manufacturing lines
• You need a written SLA for your own customers, auditors or head office
• Many people work online at the same time and need consistent speed at peak hours

Choose business broadband when

• You are a shop, showroom, clinic, restaurant, hotel or small office with a handful of users
• You need a static IP for CCTV remote viewing, billing software, a VPN or remote access
• Budget matters more than a written uptime guarantee
• You want to start small and upgrade as the team grows

Do you need a backup connection?

Most outages happen in the last mile, the stretch of cable between the street and your building. A second, independent path keeps you online when that stretch is cut by road work or a fallen tree.

A leased line from Megnet already uses a multi-path last mile. For business broadband, an AirFiber plan is a low-cost wireless backup: MEG AFB30 starts at ₹549 a month before GST.

Connecting more than one site

If your business has a factory in Kinathukadavu and an office in Pollachi, or several branches across the taluk, a private intranet and point-to-point link joins them without going over the public internet. Pair it with SD-WAN to manage several links as one, and a managed firewall to keep threats out.

Questions to ask any business internet provider

• Is the bandwidth dedicated (1:1) or shared, and what is the upload speed?
• What exactly does the SLA cover: uptime, latency, repair time? What happens if it is missed?
• Is a static IPv4 address included, and is IPv6 available?
• Is there a backup path in the last mile?
• Who answers the phone at 11 pm on a Sunday, and where are they based?

Tell us how your business uses the internet and we will suggest the right connection, whether that is a leased line, business broadband, or one of each.

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