The unparalleled benefits of dedicated fiber

What is dedicated fiber?

Fiber optic technology is much less constrained by the speed, bandwidth, and quality limitations that coaxial and copper cables have. You can see dedicated fiber as the superior version of fiber optic technology, a fiber connection exclusively provided to your organization. This means you don't share it with other users, as if you have your own personal expressway. Dedicated fiber offers the best guarantee for an extremely reliable and secure connection, the highest and easily adjustable speeds, and minimal latency (signal delay). It provides the best possible fiber connection as a foundation for your demanding digital and cloud strategy.

Why choose dedicated fiber?

There are several reasons to choose dedicated fiber. Let's look at the key benefits of this solution.

Guaranteed bandwidth 

Since you are the sole user of the dedicated fiber, you always have guaranteed bandwidth. You can consistently send data quickly between your sites, to the internet, the cloud, or the data center.

Low latency 

Being the only user of your fiber optic connection ensures that the transmission of your signal is never hindered by other users, resulting in minimal delay. In some cases, every millisecond counts, such as in the case of remotely controlled real-time robot processes in manufacturing, trading activities of financial institutions, or remote medical procedures.

Security and reliability 

Cyberattacks are a daily occurrence, and the financial damage they can cause is often life-threatening for companies. A secure and reliable connection for critical data transfer is essential. Dedicated fiber provides exactly this. Your data transmission occurs exclusively through your personal fiber optic, not through a shared connection or the public internet, ensuring that only you have access. This way, your connection forms the foundation of your cybersecurity – a concept known as security by design.

Symmetric & scalable bandwidth 

Dedicated fiber provides symmetric bandwidth and easily adjustable speeds. This means that upload and download speeds are always equal. You can download and send large files just as quickly and easily. Symmetric bandwidth allows you to integrate data-intensive applications better into crucial business processes. The fact that speeds can be easily adjusted up to 10 Gbps without hardware modifications (and even up to 100 Gbps and more with the right hardware) ensures that your connection can easily grow with the needs of your organization.

What is shared fiber, and what are its drawbacks?

As the name suggests, shared fiber is a fiber optic connection that you share with other organizations in a building or area. Users are each assigned a certain portion of the total bandwidth.

This shared model has its limitations compared to dedicated fiber:

• The performance of your fiber optic connection is largely linked to network congestion. If there is a lot of traffic (many users at the same time), the speed will decrease, and latency will increase. In the worst case, you may experience interruptions. 
• Speeds are asymmetric, meaning that download speed differs from upload speed, significantly slowing down working with data or applications in the cloud or data center. 
• There are multiple users of the connection, making it more susceptible to cyberattacks with potential financial consequences. 
• Speeds can be difficult to adjust. Additionally, your hardware may need replacement, and you have to hope that not too many users are utilizing the same connection, as the total number of users determines the speed per user.

Shared fiber, or GPON (Gigabit Passive Optical Network), solutions are therefore not reliable or forward-looking options when your connection is critical to your business.

The benefits of dedicated fiber internet

Dedicated fiber internet offers various operational and strategic advantages. Here are the key ones:

• Optimal reliability in critical business applications. Dedicated fiber is ideal for demanding business processes that require a constant and reliable connection.
• Secure data transfer. Due to its private nature (no sharing of the connection with other users), dedicated fiber provides high-quality security for sensitive and critical business data during transmission.
• Future-proof. Dedicated fiber is a scalable solution that effortlessly grows with the evolving needs of your organization.
• Control and flexibility. Since you are not bound by speed limits with dedicated fiber and do not share capacity and bandwidth with other businesses, you have more control and flexibility. It's easier to tailor bandwidth, speed, and uptime guarantees specifically to the needs of your business.

Invest in the future of your organization with dedicated fiber

You benefit from the highest levels of reliability, speed, and security available in the market. Moreover, dedicated fiber is a future-proof connectivity solution that organically scales with the evolving needs of your organization.

About Eurofiber Belgium

Eurofiber Belgium has been an expert in dedicated fiber connections for 20 years. We believe that 'always on' connectivity is a cornerstone for success in a digital society. Our mission is to provide as many organizations as possible with the best possible dedicated fiber connections so that they can fully embrace the opportunities offered by the 4th industrial revolution.

Eurofiber focuses exclusively on businesses, governments, schools, and hospitals. Our products and operations are designed to serve organizations for whom only the best fiber connection and corresponding services are good enough. With our network of over 71,000 km and a presence in the Benelux, France, and Germany, we specialize in delivering connectivity for critical and large data streams.