Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) provides symmetrical, guaranteed bandwidth delivered on dedicated infrastructure — unlike shared business broadband, DIA capacity is reserved exclusively for your organization, providing consistent performance regardless of neighborhood traffic patterns.
DIA is the right choice for locations where internet connectivity is business-critical and shared broadband performance variability is unacceptable. RLM advises on DIA sizing, carrier evaluation, and the contract terms that ensure DIA's guarantees translate into actual performance.
A structured advisory process — from discovery and market evaluation to vendor selection and post-deployment optimization — tailored to your specific environment and objectives.
We identify which locations require DIA based on business criticality, application bandwidth demands, and the performance impact of broadband variability — building the business case for DIA investment at each candidate location.
We evaluate DIA providers at each location — incumbent telcos, CLECs, cable operators offering business DIA, and fiber ISPs — comparing bandwidth tiers, SLA quality, pricing, and installation lead times.
We right-size DIA bandwidth — analyzing utilization patterns, peak demand, growth projections, and the cost of over/under-provisioning — and evaluate burstable billing models for variable demand profiles.
We evaluate DIA SLA commitments and design the redundancy architecture — DIA primary with LTE failover, dual DIA from different providers, or DIA with SD-WAN over broadband backup — appropriate for each location's availability requirements.
These are the dimensions that consistently separate successful network deployments from costly ones — and the questions RLM will help you answer before any commitment.
Some DIA services offer burstable billing — you pay for a committed base rate but can burst to higher speeds. Evaluate burstable pricing against your traffic patterns — burstable billing can provide better economics for variable demand.
DIA is symmetrical by design. Evaluate whether your applications genuinely require symmetrical bandwidth or whether asymmetrical services (more download than upload) could meet your requirements at lower cost.
DIA SLAs should specify latency, packet loss, jitter, and uptime — not just uptime alone. Evaluate the specificity of SLA commitments and the measurement methodology used to assess compliance.
DIA on dedicated fiber infrastructure requires lead times of 30-90 days depending on market and provider. Evaluate lead times when planning new locations or critical application deployments.
DIA costs significantly more per Mbps than shared broadband. Evaluate the cost premium against the actual business impact of broadband performance variability — not all locations justify DIA economics.
DIA provides guaranteed performance but not guaranteed availability. Evaluate the backup strategy for DIA circuit failures — secondary DIA, LTE, or broadband backup — based on your uptime requirements.
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