Internet Connectivity

Sycom, with our business partners offer a range of Broad band solutions over fibre and copper, allowing clients to connect their systems to the Internet on a 24x7x365 basis.

ADSL is fast becoming a cost effective solution. With a suitable ISP, offering fixed IP addresses, a client can have their own mail server live on the Internet with an SMTP mail feed, web server, or remote access solution.

ADSL started out as the phone company's way to compete with cable TV by delivering both TV and phone service on your plain old copper phone line. Now it's also a good candidate for high speed Internet access.
The "A" stands for "Asymmetric", meaning the phone company can send lots of data to you, but you can't send much to them. Originally, only a tiny uplink of 16 or 64kbps was supported; recent flavors of ADSL support up to ten times that much.

ADSL is one member of a continuum of last-mile transport systems called DSL, or Digital Subscriber Line, which can carry about 1 to 6 megabits/sec over copper lines. It does not include any way to make long distance data calls, or even local calls. That's another matter entirely-- one which is still up in the air. ADSL was originally designed so you still can use it as a regular phone line when the power goes out, which would be a big improvement over BRI ISDN.

For the moment, the only form of DSL really being deployed is HDSL, which is more or less a direct replacement for traditional T1 service. T1 lines have been around forever, but require technicians to tune the line to perfection; HDSL modems can handle dreadful lines cheerfully, so should be much cheaper to install and run.

Other kinds of DSL are coming soon. In general, the fastest DSL schemes only go a couple miles; the slowest can go farther. It's a tradeoff.

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