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WAN Connections And Their Relative Bandwidth

WAN Technology

Typical Available Bandwidth

Medium

Frame Relay

56 Kbps to 1.544 Mbps

Copper

T1

1.544 Mbps

Copper

T3

44.736 Mbps

Copper

E1

2.048 Mbps

Copper

E3

34.4 Mbps

Copper

ATM

155 Mbps to 622 Mbps

Copper

SONET

51.84 Mbps to 159.25 Mbps

Optical

OC-1

51.84 Mbps

Optical

OC-3

155.52 Mbps

Optical

OC-12

622.08 Mbps

Optical

OC-48

2.4 Gbps

Optical

OC-192

9.6 Gbps

Optical