Am I wrong to be against DSL for this?

[JamesMcguinness]

Don't know if this is the right place to ask. My comapny is looking to upgrade it's North American network from Frame Relay to whatever. We have 65 sites of which 60 are 2-5 users and 5 which are 10-15 users. These sites all run Oracle, web based e-mail for the most part, a intranet based on phpBB, AV and WSUS updates. The 56k frame is well a freakin joke for the job.

We are looking at proposals for a complete change. So far the best IMO is a MPLS or TLS (they change the name at random it seems) at 2m a second from Allstream. At the same time ATT wants us to go ADSL with IPVPN boxes at all sites. Then Telus has 4 options, 1st being same as ATT and 4th being we go out and get the DSL connections for every site and use a VPN client software to connect to head office. The 2 other Telus options are a mix of 1 and 4.

Since the DSL option came about I've been on a crusade to make sure it doesn't happen. In my mind DSL is too un-reliable, the telco's screw youy around constantly, and just plain sucks. I'm more optomistic about ADSL but I don't really have a concrete reason, it just seems better from experience.

Can any of you guys point me to some recent evidence as to why DSL is a bad idea, why Oracle over DSL is going to be terrible. Or maybe correct me and tell me DSL is amazing DO IT! The boss wants relevant info pertaining to Oracle and recent articles on DSL problems, I've come up blank and don't know where else to look.

Sorry for the long post!

 

[plshlpme]

DSL will limit your uplink capabilites from all sites.
where tehy may offer you 4 or 5mbit down you are limited to the 800kbit upload.
it will be alot cheaper then frame relay though.

if you take an IP VPN solution from the major telcos they will still have you on either a dsl or frame local loop in almost all cases.