Tell me more ×  I understand the theory of having "dedicated
bandwidth" but why would a small/medium business purchase a
leased line for access to the internet? In today's day and age
residential grade connections are more than sufficient in speed
and reliability. Any cable or FIOS connection will blow a DS3
out of the water. These connections do not regularly go down and
even "dedicated" lines still have issues. Dedicated line's
aren't even dedicated as they are multiplexed on the same
backhaul as everyone else. So what's the deal with a DS3? Why
would a business pay thousands of dollars a month when they can
get the fastest cable\FIOS connection for 1/10th the cost and
many times the speed? Can anyone shed some light.  I understand
the need for super high bandwidth OC grade lines. In this post I
am referring to T1s and DS3s which are easily surpassed by
shared connections.  share|improve this question I believe an
expensive leased line comes with a better SLA, and therefore an
active monitoring of the circu