A leased line is a private telecommunications circuit between two or more locations provided according to a commercial contract. It is sometimes also known as a private circuit, private connect, and as a data line. Traditionally, leased lines were used by businesses to connect geographically distant offices for phone and networking. More recently leased lines are used to establish con. HistoryLeased line services (or services) became digital in the 1970s with the conversion of the Bell from analog to digital circuits. This allowed AT&T to offer Dataphone Digital Services (later re-br. Leased lines are used to build up private networks, private telephone networks (by interconnecting ) or access the internet or a partner network (). Here is a review of the leased-line application. In the, leased lines are available at speeds from 64 kbit/s increasing in 64 kbit/s increments to 2.048 Mbit/s over a channelised tail circuit and at speeds between 2.048 Mbit/s to 34.368 Mbit/s via channelised.
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