Provisioning WANs
| Background.
This will be a quickie little page about WAN provisioning to be
embellished later. WAN bandwidth is often provisioned in the US and other countries using the features outlined in the following table. A DS - digital stream or multiplexing of digital streams is used to actually move traffic across lines. A DS0 is a 64 kbps stream. DS0s are multiplexed to create the higher order streams found in the table. |
| Line Type | Region | Signal Standard | Number of DS0s | Bit Rate |
| T1 | North America and parts of Asia | DS1 | 24 | 1.544 Mbps |
| T3 | North America and parts of Asia | DS3 | 672 | 44.736 Mbps |
| J1 | Japan | Y1 | 30 | 2.048 Mbps |
| E1 | Europe and most of the rest of the world | 2M | 30 | 2.048 Mbps |
| E3 | Europe and most of the rest of the world | M3 | 480 | 34.064 Mbps |