Symmetrical internet for business, from 200 Mbps to 10 Gbps
We sell business internet with upload as fast as download, 200 Mbps to 10 Gbps, on a network we own. Backups finish on schedule, video calls stay clear and remote staff get a VPN that keeps up.
Symmetrical 1 Gbps next to an asymmetric 1 Gbps plan
Symmetrical 1 Gbps from us
An asymmetric 1 Gbps plan
At 35 Mbps up, a 40 GB backup set needs at least two and a half hours to leave the building; at 1 Gbps up, it can be gone in under six minutes.
Symmetry describes how a circuit’s capacity is split between the two directions. When that capacity also has to be reserved for your site alone, we build it as a dedicated circuit.
Six workloads that run on upload
A symmetrical circuit carries as much out of the building as into it. Asymmetric plans keep most of their capacity for the inbound side, and when an office’s outbound traffic outgrows what is left, the trouble usually gets reported as a general internet problem.
Backup and replication
Offsite backup and replication send everything out of the building. On a thin upload the nightly job runs into the morning and the next one starts late, until the jobs no longer fit their window.
Video calls
Each camera in a meeting sends its own stream out of the building, so twenty calls at once put twenty outbound streams on the circuit.
Hosted servers
A web application, an API or a file server that people reach from outside all serve from your upload, so your upload sets the speed they get.
Large file delivery
Sending media, imaging, CAD drawings, survey data or design files to a client is an upload, and on a thin one a large set can take hours to go.
Remote access
Every remote desktop and VPN session sends screen updates and files out to someone working off site, and each added session takes another share of the upload.
Monitoring and camera feeds
Cameras, sensors and telemetry that report to a cloud platform send data out of the building all day and all night.
Gigabit and 10 Gbps into a building without fiber
If a fiber lateral already reaches your building, we turn up the circuit on that fiber. If none does, we carry the same capacity over the air, on a point-to-point radio link we engineer for your site. That link needs three things.
A clear line of sight
The two ends of the link have to see each other. Where a single hop cannot reach, we relay the link through a midway point.
Permission to mount
Our antenna mounts on your roof or an exterior wall, and the building owner signs off on that before anything goes up.
A survey before a date
We survey the path before we set an install date, and we quote a link engineered for one site once the survey has confirmed its route.
A 10 Gbps circuit we built over two radio links
10 Gbps in each direction, carried about 11 miles through the air at under 10 ms of latency.
One dedicated circuit, delivered with consistent performance.
What the client needed
A dedicated, high-capacity connection at its office to validate a high-speed data product. Our nearest point of presence was a long way off, with little on the route that could carry high-capacity fiber.
What we built
Two point-to-point links that meet at a midway point chosen for the route: the first leaves our network at a major point of presence, the second finishes at the client’s office. Together they form a single 10 Gbps circuit with the low latency the validation work called for.
What your building needs for 1 Gbps and 10 Gbps
A 10 Gbps circuit that ends on a firewall topping out at 2 Gbps delivers 2 Gbps. Every requirement is cheaper to put right during the install than weeks later, when someone is testing from a laptop and blaming the circuit.
| What it needs | Symmetrical 1 Gbps | Symmetrical 10 Gbps |
|---|---|---|
| Handoff at the demarc | Copper or fiber Ethernet, on equipment most sites already own | Fiber, with a matched optical module at each end |
| Router or firewall | Routes a gigabit at line rate with inspection switched on | Rated for 10 Gbps with your features on; datasheets usually test with them off |
| Cabling inside the building | Cat6 from the demarc to the core switch | Fiber or Cat6A to the core; Cat5e will not carry 10 Gbps |
| Switching | Uplinks faster than 1 Gbps, or the uplink sets the ceiling | Uplinks of 10 Gbps or more, or the circuit stops at the first switch |
| Where it runs out | Upload-heavy work outgrows it before downloads do | No single workstation fills it; a whole building, or servers and storage moving data in bulk, can |
Symmetrical internet questions
A household mostly receives, so consumer plans and their advertising lead with the download figure. An office sends: backups, calls, hosted services and remote sessions all leave the building. To check your own site, listen to the complaints. If people on calls say you froze, sending files drags, or the backup is still running at nine in the morning, the circuit is short of upload, and raising the download figure will not fix any of them.
Equipment on your side of the demarc can hold it back: a firewall with inspection switched on, a switch uplink slower than the circuit, or cabling older than the requirement. The far end matters too. A single file copy to a distant server is limited by latency and TCP window size, so it can look slow on a circuit that is barely loaded. Before deciding the circuit is at fault, test with several parallel streams to a well-connected destination, and measure at the demarc as well as from a desk.
Each circuit is priced in its own quote. Tell us the speed you have in mind, and ask for the price on a contract and without one, since we offer both.
Start from the upload you need
Tell us what leaves the building and how fast it has to leave: the backup set and its window, the number of calls running at once, what you publish. We size the circuit from those figures, and the site check of your address is free.